“Under the Bull’s Banner” is the third and final novel of Rafael Sabatini’s historical trilogy Cesare Borgia, The Duke’s Court, and Under the Bull’s Banner, dedicated to his favorite character the “black genius” of the Italian Renaissance Cesare Borgia. Rich and subtle styling to authentic Italian Renaissance prose. What was , like? this great and ambiguous man? Why did the official story glorify him as a tyrant and a criminal, , , His contemporaries admired him so much........ [ ) that Niccol Machiavelli himself chose him as a model of the ideal ruler in his book "The Sovereign"? The contradictory and multifaceted image of Cesare Borgia literally comes to life in the pages of the novel "Under the Banner of the Bull" …