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Title: What Borgia Pope?
Review: The history of the mind and cultural evolution is oft passed over, but Manchester tells quite a lucid (and sometimes lurid) tale here. His stories of the Renaissance Vatican are certainly the bits always passed over in Catechism. The last section of the book, about Magellan's circumnavigation, is brilliant enough to be awe-inspiring. I have given this book as a gift on more than one occasion and will continue to do so.
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