![]() ![]() But as her attraction to Cesare and her work for the Borgia’s draws her deeper into a world of passion and power, Maddalena begins to fear for her soul and her life.įittingly, The Confessions are written in the first-person point of view, alternating between Maddalena and Cesare’s memoir-style chapters. ![]() ![]() Over time, she become privy to lots of dangerous secrets and even undertakes a clandestine mission to Florence that changes the course of Italian history. She first works in the Vatican, but after an unfortunate encounter with Juan Borgia, Pope Alexander’s eldest son and a notorious libertine, she moves to the household of Lucrezia, the only Borgia daughter, at the neighboring Palazzo Santa Maria in Portico.Īn intelligent and keen observer of the family’s turbulent affairs, Maddalena has fallen in love with Cesare Borgia, the charismatic second son who, at just nineteen years of age, was made cardinal by his ever-ambitious father. Maddalena Moretti is a young widow from the rural Romagna region who arrives in Rome in hopes of escaping an overbearing mother and another arranged marriage. ![]() Much has been written about them – fiction and non-fiction alike – but The Borgia Confessions offers a rare perspective – that of a servant to the famous papal family. The Borgia dynasty of Renaissance Rome continues to fascinate 500 years later. ![]()
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