Lucrezia Borgia was a cold-hearted bitch, according to author John Faunce. The facts about Lucrezia’s scandalous life as the bastard daughter of Pope Alexander VI are well-documented. The details ...

In her third novel (after The Borgia Betrayal) featuring Francesca Giordano—court poisoner to the House of Borgia—Poole places her heroine in a new locale and in the midst of personal and global ...

VATICAN CITY — Their lives steeped in intrigue, treason and lust, and set against a backdrop of luscious Italian landscapes and Renaissance masterpieces, the Borgias are probably the most famous — or ...