Miss Borgia

After transmigrating as the youngest daughter of the Borgia family, Lucrezia is horrified to realize what fate has in store for her: at thirteen, she'll be married off to some middle-aged nobleman who's as thick as a brick. Her father is a treacherous pope, and her elder brother is the future "Duke of Poison."

Fine. I'll make sure you can't take care of yourself first.

Lucrezia: I've been married four times and widowed four times. I hear my brother Cesare Borgia took care of every one of my husbands. Thanks for all your hard work, brother!

In the turbulent Italy at the turn of the century, "Duke of Poison" Cesare Borgia is ambitious, ruthless, and unscrupulous, determined to unite Romagna and then Italy. But at the end of his life, he discovers that what awaits him is...

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* A coming-of-age power struggle in the style of classic historical fiction.

* Some details are based on the TV series The Borgias and the French TV series Borgia.

* The story begins in 1488. Lucrezia is eight, Cesare is thirteen, Juan is twelve, and Jofre is seven.

* The Borgia family came from Spain and produced two popes: Callixtus III, who reigned from 1455 to 1458, and Alexander VI, who reigned from 1492 to 1503.

* Alexander VI was the first pope in history to legitimize his illegitimate children.

* Italy was not truly unified until 1870.

* Niccolo Machiavelli, a leading figure in Florence, greatly admired Cesare Borgia and used him as the model for his masterpiece, The Prince.

* Renaissance great Leonardo da Vinci served Cesare Borgia, planning his military campaigns and urban development.

* The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Its capital was Constantinople, now Istanbul.

* In 1488, China's Ming dynasty was in the first year of the Hongzhi era, during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong, Zhu Youtang.

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