yes i know who the borgias were. lucrecia was featured in my sister's color-in-the-infamous-women's-dresses- coloring-book, and we got to read all about her poisoning career.

i read machiavelli in DS. and in another yale college class. if i read any in high school, it was only snippets (heck, at my high school, we only got through 8 books in AP english, 4 of which i'd read on my own in middle school...)