The Vatican Princess Author:C. W. Gortner This is a historial fiction version of the life of Lucrezia Borgia and life in the Vatican with her father Pope Alexander VI, born Rodrigo de Borja, during Renaissance Italy. — From Amazon.com: For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama in this captivating novel about one o... more »f the world’s most notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope, was at the center of the dynasty’s ambitions. Slandered as a heartless seductress who lured men to their doom, was she in fact the villainess of legend, or was she trapped in a familial web, forced to choose between loyalty and survival?« less