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Feb 1, 2016 · (It was previously published as the Book of Love in 2008 and renamed Sins of the House of Borgia in 2011.) Sarah Bower writes in intimate detail about the internal landscape of a girl who is besotted with the unattainable and magnetic Cesare Borgia, the brother of her mistress. One of the things I loved most about this novel is the period detail.
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Apr 1, 2008 · Sins of the House of Borgia is a story of a young girl who gets embroiled in a game of politics that opens her eyes to the seedy side of religion and costs her more than she can afford to lose. Her mother's dead. Her father sends her to serve as lady-in-waiting to the Pope's illegitimate daughter.
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Mar 1, 2011 · Like a tapestry of the period, decorous but two-dimensional. A surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of the Renaissance clan who gave meaning to the term “Machiavellian,” narrated by a lady-in-waiting to Lucrezia Borgia. The Showtime drama based on the book premiers April 2011. Esther, who left Spain after Ferdinand and Isabella ordered the ...
Mar 1, 2011 · "Sins of the House of Borgia is beautifully written and so effectively exemplifies the glamour of the Borgia court that you can easily sympathize with Esther’s loss of self within it. This novel is not meant to be rushed through and I am not able to come close to describing all the people, intrigues and alliances in this review.
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Sins of the House of Borgia by Sarah Bower. Publication date 2011 Topics Popes, History, Young women, Household employees, Nobility, Fiction Publisher Sourcebooks ...
Mar 1, 2011 · PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JAN 24, 2011. A young Jewish woman is drawn into the splendor and corruption surrounding the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, in Bower's debut, a slick historical soap opera. After Esther Sarfati is baptized and becomes a lady-in-waiting to the widowed Lucrezia Borgia, the pope's illegitimate daughter, she is attracted ...
Flattered by Lucrezia's favour, seduced by the friendship of her cousin, Angela Borgia and swept off her feet by Lucrezia's glamorous and dangerous brother, Cesare, she is drawn into a web of intrigue and deceit which will test her heart to its utmost and burden her with secrets she must carry to her grave.
