Celebrated Crimes

Vivid historical gossip, including bios of Lucrezia Borgia, her brother Cesare (model for Machiavelli''s The Prince), and her father Pope Alexandre VI; also the story of Martin Guere, which was made into a French movie starring Gerard Despardieu and then remade as an American film translated to the Civil War, starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere; and also and essay on The Man in the Iron Mask, w...