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The title of this book is feeling like a lie 😕😕

For many in the crowd, the bloodshed in the barracks carries echoes of the darkest days of the Borgia rule during the Renaissance, when in the cellars of the Apostolic Palace courtiers hired apothecaries to prepare the cantarella, a position based on arsenic & putrefied viscera, destined for their rivals & Cardinal Ceasare Borgia, son of the cunning Pop Alexander VI, drew his sword to stab his sister Lucretia's lover