by Mário Puzo, J. Teixeira de Aguilar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722022545
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«A Família» is the historical novel by Mário Puzo and J. Teixeira de Aguilar, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (446 pages, in Portuguese).
Posthumous novel by Mário Puzo that tells a saga of ambition and thirst for power in the Renaissance. Rodrigo Borgia reaches the papacy as Alexander VI while corruption contaminates the Church; together with his children Cesare, Juan, Lucrezia and Gioffre, the family pays a high price for power. It is the portrait of an era of splendor and moral decay.
The full title is «A Família: Uma Saga de Ambição e Sede de Poder»; this edition appeared in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction about the Renaissance and power intrigues in the Church.
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
