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The Borgias

Alexandre Dumas

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

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The Borgias Alexandre Dumas - The Borgias There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS, in his Celebrated Crimes series, dishes up the dirt in all its ugly glory. This book was not written for children
Available since: 09/12/2021.

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