Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 1: Volume 1: Part 2: The Borgias: 1492 and The Cenci: 1598

Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 2: Volume 1: Part 2: The Borgias: 1492 and The Cenci: 1598

Title: Celebrated Crimes, Volume. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Overview: From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed. Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances, facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others, the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. The first volume comprises the annals of the Borgias and the Cenci. The name of the noted and notorious Florentine family has become a synonym for intrigue and violence, and yet the Borgias have not been without stanch defenders in history. Another famous Italian story is that of the Cenci. The beautiful Beatrice Cenci--celebrated in the painting of Guido, the sixteenth-century romance of Guerrazi, and the poetic tragedy of Shelley, not to mention numerous succeeding works inspired by her hapless fate—will always remain a shadowy figure and one of infinite pathos.

Published: 1910

Series: Celebrated Crimes Collection Series, Celebrated #2

List: True Crime Collection

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Translator: George Burnham Ives

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, Middle Ages History, War & Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical Fiction

Episode: Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 2: Volume 1: Part 2: The Borgias: 1492 and The Cenci: 1598

Volume: 1 of 8

Part: 2 of 2

Episodes Part: 11

Length Part: 4:00:23

Episodes Volume: 22

Length Volume: 8:21:55

Episodes Book: 133

Length Book: 59:56:00

Narrator: John Van Stan

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Strongly Suggested, Mature Audience Only

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, Biography, Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, History, War, Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical, Fiction, Borgias, Cenci, Massacres, Deep South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Desrues, La Constantin, Joan of Naples, Iron Mask, Martin Guerre, Ali Pacha, Countess de Saint-Geran, Murat, Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo

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