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100 1  Dumas, Alexandre,|d1802-1870. 
245 14 The Borgias :|bcelebrated crimes|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource] /|cAlexande Dumas, Pere. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bFreshwater Seas,|c2014. 
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490 1  Celebrated Crimes ;|vbk. 1 
506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
511 1  Read by Robert Bethune. 
520    To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated
       Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for 
       children. The novelist has spared no language-has minced 
       no words-to describe violent scenes of violent times. In 
       this, the first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly 
       sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of 
       the three most famous members of the Borgia family - Pope 
       Alexander VI, Lucrezia, and above all Cesare. Never one to
       allow a mere fact to stand in the way of a good story, 
       Dumas puts all the most sensational accusations made 
       against the Borgias--mostly by their enemies--to the 
       fullest use, which certainly distorts history, but makes 
       for a great tale. Also, he often takes the novelist's 
       approach, giving us details of scenes for which there is 
       no historical record--we are given, for example, a 
       wonderful description of the look on Cesare Borgia's face 
       as he breaks out of his Spanish prison, something not even
       Cesare himself could have seen, and he was alone at the 
       time. Again, as the translator notes, "The careful, mature
       reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, 
       and allow for, this fact." We're reading Dumas here, not 
       Tuchman or Toynbee. Dumas gives us a sweeping tale of 
       simony, betrayal, connivance, conquest both military and 
       sexual, and above all death - on the battlefield in war, 
       on the streets in brutal murder, in the dark by 
       strangulation, at the table by poison. It is a tale of 
       events and personalities that shook Europe and created the
       modern myth of the Renaissance prince, so well described 
       by Machiavelli. Enjoy! Note: The modern reader will see 
       that certain passages in the book are marked by 
       unmistakable anti-Semitism. As it is both useless to deny,
       and worthwhile to remember, that anti-Semitism was a 
       cultural norm in Dumas' times, those passages have been 
       left as written. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 30 Borgia family. 
650  0 Crime|zItaly. 
650  0 Criminals|zItaly. 
700 1  Bethune, Robert. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
800 1  Dumas, Alexandre.|tCelebrated Crimes.|sSpoken word ;|vbk. 
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