The Borgian era, with all its excesses of lust and murder, its monstrous villainies and strange benevolences, is here unfolded in a tapestry of unrestrained color and animation. Frederick Baron Corvo, that unpredictable celebrant of Black Masses and practitioner of bizarre literary heresies, depicts the unbridled licence of the fifteenth century with a demoniacal vision and an incandescent brilliance of metaphor.  A History of the Borgias throws new light on the myths and legends surrounding one of the vilest and most glittering reigns during an era of great art and great corruption.