I've been neglecting to update COMIC BOMBER as of late. So I updated a few series and added the first volume of Cesare.
http://tinyurl.com/34pbgb
Cesare is by Fuyumi Soryo, a popular shoujo mangaka that suddenly started writing seinen manga in recent years. She wrote stuff like MARS and Eternal Sabbath, both of which are excellent reads.
Soryo (with help from a historian well versed in this time period) writes this "serious historical fiction" about Cesare Borgia, a figure from Italian history. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia). Seems like a lot of popular mangaka these days are drawing history. (Inoue Takehiko with Vagabond, Hitoshi Iwaaki with Historie, etc.)
You start the book with the most blandest, plain black-and-white cover ever. Something that you'd easily pass in a bookstore if it wasn't for prior knowledge about the manga or the author. But the inside is the complete opposite of bland. Soryo's refined art really shines in the backgrounds and the clothing. I'm no historical expert, so I can't really say anything about the authenticity of it all, but everything looks so well done and it's just incredibly detailed. It feels like you're stepping back in time to Italy in the end of the 1400s.