Celebrated Crimes (complete)
1839
Long before true crime became a genre, Alexandre Dumas created something far more dangerous: history written as visceral spectacle. This eight-volume collection, begun in 1839, plunders the darkest corners of European history with the same narrative hunger that produced The Three Musketeers. Here you'll find the Borgias in all their poisonous glory, Cesare and Lucrezia rendered not as distant historical figures but as flesh-and-blood monsters navigating a world where murder was merely a political instrument. Dumas also chronicles Beatrice Cenci, the Roman noblewoman who killed her abusive father, and the complex case of Martin Guerre, a 16th-century French man whose identity was stolen by an imposter. These are not dry historical accounts. They crackle with drama, moral provocation, and the kind of baroque violence that made the Renaissance such a spectacularly bloody era. Dumas holds nothing back. This was not written for children. The mature reader will recognize both the brilliance and the bias: Dumas spices his facts, distorts perspective where convenient, and always, always tells a hell of a story.
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“As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“The subjects which he has chosen, however, are of both historic and dramatic importance, and they have the added value of giving the modern reader a clear picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe, during the middle ages.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after””
— Alexandre Dumas
“and he began to preach once more in the cathedral, with a success that was all the greater for the interruption, and an influence far more formidable than before, because it was strengthened by that sympathy of the masses which an unjust persecution always inspires.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it.””
— Alexandre Dumas
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