Lucrezia Borgia

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Rather random 'Sisters in Prose' spot of the day:

[from Today's Times 2 Life - artsopera section (of which I'm sure we're all avid readers)]

Murder, adultery, incest and a Pope's daughter....

Venice, early 16th century. A young man and an older woman begin a passionate relationship. Ferrara, years later. the woman confesses that she is the young man's mother and poisons him and his five friends. Byron was so obsessed with her that he stole a lock of her hair from the Ambrosiana Library; Victor Hugo wrote a novel about her; the Sisters of Mercy made her a goth chick; and she gets a name check in The Godfather. There's even a TV drama about her family, airing on Sky Atlantic in the spring, with Jeremy Irons as her impious father, Rodrigo - also known as pope Alexander VI......

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*SPOILER* And she gets killed in assasins creed bortherhood
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Just check out Alejandro Jodorowsky & Milo Manara's Borgia comics, they're bloody awesome if you're a perv like me. There's a whole lot more info about the Borgias in those comics than some asswipe history book, I'm pretty sure you can get'em off thepiratebay, you'll thank me later.. :twisted:
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Is this how deep we sank?

Might as well link to Ozymandias:

http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/
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Aazhyd wrote:Is this how deep we sank?

Might as well link to Ozymandias:

http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/
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Lifting the tone... If you are interested in reading about Ms Borgia - 'Lucrezia Borgia' by Maria Bellonci is a cracking read. ;) *history buff*
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Just check out Alejandro Jodorowsky & Milo Manara's Borgia comics,they're bloody awesome
Hey demolitionsisters. Totally agree. Better call them graphic novels by the sheer beauty of the drawings of Manara and the horrific story of the perverted powerlust in the catholic church that era. You can almost smell the stench of blood, death and semen coming off the pages!
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flip2 wrote:Just check out Alejandro Jodorowsky & Milo Manara's Borgia comics,they're bloody awesome
Hey demolitionsisters. Totally agree. Better call them graphic novels by the sheer beauty of the drawings of Manara and the horrific story of the perverted powerlust in the catholic church that era. You can almost smell the stench of blood, death and semen coming off the pages!
I know Jodorowsky as a director but I wasn't aware he was in comics, too, so thanks demolotionsisters and flip2 :wink:
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