They were like two youngsters shaken awake from an afternoon nap: each of them was thinking, What day is it? Where am I? Who am I? The answers were: Thursday, Sept. 10th, 2009, they were in Arthur ...

In her third novel (after The Borgia Betrayal) featuring Francesca Giordano—court poisoner to the House of Borgia—Poole places her heroine in a new locale and in the midst of personal and global ...

REASON TO WATCH Showtime returns to the Renaissance. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The Borgias of 15th-century Rome originated in Valencia, Spain, and achieved prominence in the Vatican and as patrons of the arts.

A young Jewish woman is drawn into the splendor and corruption surrounding the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, in Bower's debut, a slick historical soap opera. After Esther Sarfati is baptized ...