![]() ![]() ![]() For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. 'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. _A tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career_'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. The Family is effectively his last novel. The novel was finished by his longtime girlfriend, Carol Gino. Puzo spent over twenty years working on the book off and on, while he wrote others. The Borgias face immense opposition from all quarters of Italy, but their deadliest foes may be far closer to home. The Family is a 2001 novel written by Mario Puzo.1 The novel is about Pope Alexander VI and his family. Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden boy his younger brother Cesare, jealous and vicious and Lucrezia, cunning, calculating and passionate. Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy - but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death. But where there is gold - and power - there are those who are willing to do anything to get their hands on them.Įnter the Borgias. The Renaissance is in full swing, heralding a new golden age for Europe. ![]() _From the legendary author of THE GODFATHER comes a novel of the original Italian crime familyFifteenth-century Italy. ![]()
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