Heartland

Posted: **31 Jan 2011, 12:49**

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......

Posted: **31 Jan 2011, 20:14**

*SPOILER* And she gets killed in assasins creed bortherhood

Posted: **31 Jan 2011, 21:28**

no shit Sherlock?

Posted: **24 Jun 2011, 09:02**

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..

Posted: **24 Jun 2011, 12:39**

Is this how deep we sank?

Might as well link to Ozymandias:

http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/

Posted: **24 Jun 2011, 16:38**

Aazhyd wrote:Is this how deep we sank?

Might as well link to Ozymandias:

http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/

It's either this or go back to deluding ourselves that there will ever be a new record from Andrew Eldritch and the Law of Diminishing Returns All Star Road Show.

Posted: **25 Jun 2011, 00:17**

Lifting the tone... If you are interested in reading about Ms Borgia - 'Lucrezia Borgia' by Maria Bellonci is a cracking read.

*history buff*

Posted: **25 Jun 2011, 17:07**

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!

Posted: **27 Jun 2011, 12:12**

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