The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini PREFACE This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts. To judge it from the standpoint of this calm, ...
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The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini PREFACE This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts. To judge it from the standpoint of this calm, deliberate, and correct century-as we conceive our own to be-is for sedate middle-age to judge from its own standpoint the reckless, hot, passionate, lustful humours of youth, of youth that errs grievously and achieves greatly. So to judge that epoch collectively is manifestly wrong, a hopeless procedure if it be our aim to understand it and to be in sympathy with it, as it becomes broad-minded age to be tolerantly in sympathy with the youth whose follies it perceives. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us. But if it be wrong to judge a past epoch collectively by the standards of our own time, how much more is it not wrong to single out individuals for judgement by those same standards, after detaching them for the purpose from the environment in which they had their being? How false must be the conception of them thus obtained! We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience
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1930, Houghton Mifflin Boston & New York 1924 1st Revised Ed. 1930
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Houghton Mifflin Boston & New York 1924 1st Revised Ed. 1930
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1930
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, VG in black boards, red-orange text stamping on the spine, near fine. 1st Revised Ed. 449 pages are lightly browned and previous owner's name on inside cover. No dj. Sabatini was a prolific author and brilliant linguist (6 languages This was his last of 31 books. His most famous were Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922), and The Sea Hawk (1915).
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465p. Black cloth. No date but c. 1900. A hardcover book in good condition. Cover boards warped, dent in spine, previous owner's bookplate on endpaper, some pages uncut. Includes b/w illustrations. A biography of Cesare Borgia,
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I enjoyed the biography a great deal although it may not fun for every one.It was written many years ago and the language sound Victorian.It adds alot of personal asides (that Cesare and his sister Lucrezia were not the demons previously portrayed.) I rather like the asides and the author's opinions and the historical explanations follow smoothly.I would recommend this to people who are not afraid to read old-time language
