by Mario Puzo, Carol Gino · AVON BOOKS USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780061032424
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«The Family» is the historical novel by Mario Puzo and Carol Gino, published by Avon Books USA in paperback (432 pages, in English).
In Renaissance Rome, Rodrigo Borgia, elected pope as Alexander VI, and his children Cesare, Juan and Lucrezia weave alliances and plots to sustain their power. Between loyalty to the clan and personal ambition, the novel shows the intrigues of the Vatican and the dynasty's drive to perpetuate itself.
Posthumous work by Mario Puzo, completed by Carol Gino. This edition was published in 2002; the novel is set in Italy at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th.
A suitable read for fans of historical fiction and for followers of Mario Puzo interested in the Borgias and in power intrigues.
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.
