City of God: A Novel of the Borgias

by Cecelia Holland

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039441277X
• ISBN13: 9780394412771
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The World of the Borgias comes alive

This is one of my favorite historical novels. Cecilia Holland, as always, brings you into the world of the past. This time it is the world of the Borgias. Nicholas Dawson is a complicated, brilliant man who tries to beat the Borgias at their own game. If you like good historical fiction, you must read this book.

One of this author's very best

Cecelia Holland's novels are always absolutely remarkable--I've read most of them--but of all of them this may be the best. The main character is Nicholas Dawson, a strange, reclusive, intelligent, homosexual clerk in the Florentian embassy in Borgia Rome. He becomes involved with the ruthless scheming of the Duke of Valentino and the very unholy Pope. Dawson is an absolutely brilliantly drawn character--the little details of his life are perfect. Holland is a truly great writer--other writers may take you back to the past but Holland makes the past the present.