By taking on the brutal and notorious Borgia dynasty, which even 50 years before Henry VIII's birth had Italy by the scruff of the neck, Dunant might be seen to be putting her subject in the ring with Cromwell – but it should be said straight away that this is a different sort of book. W ho would be a historical novelist of calibre and ambition, while the great glittering caravan of Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy is still passing? Sarah Dunant's Blood and Beauty, the fourth of her Italian historical novels and the initial instalment in what is planned to be a two-part saga, is her first since Mantel's colossal success.
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