Television drama used to sex up history - but a new big-budget series about the Borgias, starring Jeremy Irons, doesn’t need to embellish reality, says William Langley Affecting that familiar air of ...

The Borgias: The Hidden History, by G. J. Meyer (Bantam, 478 pages, $35 hardcover, $16.99 Kindle) - Popular historian G. J. Meyer’s account of the notorious Italian Renaissance family isn’t so much a ...

Sex, deceit, Jeremy Irons. What more do you need? The Oscar-winning actor plays Pope Alexander VI in the first season of the Showtime series The Borgias, about the notorious 15th-century Italian ...