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I reblogged my earlier post from 2 July 2015:

Lucrezia in 1x02, “The Assassin” + Saint Catherine in Pinturicchio’s The Disputation of Saint Catherine, often believed to be modeled by a young Lucrezia Borgia.

Cesare in 2x03, “The Beautiful Deception + Cesare in profile, Caesar Borgia Valentino (~1500-1510).

2020 addition:

elperian got me thinking about them again, and ... *sigh*

(Am I listening to my Borgia playlist right now? I might be.)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Cesare and Lucrezia's Theme (Trevor Morris)

In response to this post,

jubaah said:

I laughed dbgehnjrgnj

I replied:

haha, you kind of have to!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Hellfire (Patrick Page)

In a reblog of this post of mine about Oliverotto Effreducci da Fermo murdering his uncle and cousins and then getting killed by Cesare Borgia, I added:

adfkk;adfk turns out (according to Machiavelli) that the uncle actually raised him and that Oliverotto specifically used a conversation about Alexander and Cesare as a pretext for getting his uncle alone to murder him

#*plays the tiniest violin*

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)

my heart bleeds for him

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Young and Beautiful (Lana del Rey)

“Whoever, therefore, deems it necessary in his new principality to secure himself against enemies, to win friends, to conquer by force or by fraud, to make himself loved and feared by the people, followed and revered by the soldiers, to destroy those who can or must do you harm, to transform old institutions with new measures, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous and liberal, to eliminate an untrustworthy army, to create a new one, to maintain the friendship of kings and princes in such a way that they must either help you with good grace or offend you with caution—such a person cannot find better examples to imitate than the actions of this man.”

—Niccolò Machiavelli, not pausing for breath, on Cesare Borgia in The Prince

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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Road to Glory (Audiomachine)

I have a gazillion icons, but only made a few of them personally. But I thought I would share the ones that I did make!

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Finale (Austen's Pride)

Kuvira reminds me of Cesare Borgia, a lot. And this is why.

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Current Music: Illumination (Jennifer Thomas)

Occasionally, I see people wondering why, if the Borgias were not really any worse than most Renaissance political families, they were so widely reviled and become a byword for corruption even in a very corrupt period. They must have done something that stood out from the others, right?

Um ... well.
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So, every portrayal of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia that I’ve seen, whatever the take on their relationship, involves that relationship falling apart in the end and the two of them turning on each other.

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Current Music: The Fallen Priest (Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé)

As a massive Borgia fan who is 1000% convinced that they were one of GRRM’s inspirations, the BASTARDS CANNOT HAVE THE THINGS wank going down right now is just sort of … lol.

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Current Music: King of the Faeries (Aine Minogue)

I'm trying to finish the month-late chapter of we get dark, only to shine, but I'm enjoying the current plotbunny SO MUCH.

Again, if you're on Tumblr you already know, but the omnipresence in Borgias fandom of business and/or organized crime US-modern AUs + the shitshow of US politics rn got me thinking that politician!Borgias would be a near perfect fit. For one, they were primarily political figures irl, and some of Alexander VI's most unpopular actions:

1. Accepting large numbers of refugees (from the Inquisition)
2. Speaking Spanish (at court)
3. Ignoring traditional policy (esp in terms of nepotism)
4. Expanding papal authority

That would fit exactly???? into US politics at this moment. It would fit into a lot of people's politics, really, but the prevalence of US moderns is where the idea came from and what I know best, so. And it's just so easy to make it work. Like.

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Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Portland, OR
Current Music: Rolling in the Deep (Adele)