Rafael Sabatini 
The Life of Cesare Borgia 

Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history’s villans — there are foul rumors that fly around the man’s history, dispicable tales of dispicable acts: there is little he has not been accused of, in fact. Rafael Sabatini — famed novelist, author of such deservedly renowned classics as Scaramouche and Captain Blood — had a very different idea of who Cesare Borgia was. Sabatini may be right: Borgia may have been one of history’s great men, consigned to villany because his enemies wrote the histories…