📖 Les Borgia

Around 1840, newspaper editors and publishers snapped Dumas, who undertakes "Famous Crimes" vast historical saga of violence. murder and blood. The figure of Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, Cardinal at sixteen and absolute condottiere then dominates this illustrious family is going to build a kingdom in the Renaissance Italy. Caesar, who knows "the proper use of cruelty", removes the iron or poison his main rivals, and as many petty despots who blackmail and enslave their subjects. In Rome, he intends to give an influence, an army money. In statesman unscrupulous and clever, it supports the bourgeoisie against the arbitrariness of an odious feudalism. As such, Cesare Borgia is the model that inspired Machiavelli's The Prince.