John Leslie Garner

John Leslie Garner was an American writer, translator, artist, and engraver who lived from 1862 to 1925. The clearest sources I found connect him most strongly with two Borgia-related books: Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance and an English translation of Ferdinand Gregorovius's Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day.

His work shows a strong interest in history, especially the drama and politics of Renaissance Italy. Other catalog listings also connect his name with editions of The Aztecs, suggesting a wider range of interests beyond Italian biography.

Reliable biographical detail about his personal life appears to be limited online, so it seems safest to remember him mainly through the books he left behind: readable historical writing and translation work that continued to circulate long after his lifetime.