Title: Not a great book
Review: "The Borgias" by Marion Johnson is a good book for anyone who wants a quick overview on this quite appalling Roman family with Spanish roots. It has nice color and b/w illustrations, genealogies and maps. It is an easy read, but the lack of serious scholarship is evident. Often, the author goes back and forth in time even within the same chapter and sometimes just rambles on without a thread of thought. The book also misses a map of Rome and the Vatican, home of two Borgia popes.
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