C.May 1, 2025

Is it too late to nominate Jeremy Irons for the next popeship?

#Borgias #TheBorgias #JeremyIrons

Show threadskuaJun 23, 2024
@mattotcha
The #Borgias are excited.
History TodayFeb 6, 2024

How bad were the #Borgias? In 2013, Alexander Lee attempted to rescue the Borgia family from their baleful reputation as a political – and papal – dynastic steeped in sin.

🔓 This article from the Archive is still free to read at https://buff.ly/49qmgKs

Were the Borgias Really So Bad? | History Today

Thankful PondJan 17, 2023
#Borgias #Netflix #miseryporn I bailed.
Athena Andreadis, PhDNov 25, 2022

Cover reveal: A Blackened Mirror by @jograhamwrites, a riveting mythic historical fantasy that transposes the Persephone and Hades myth to the Rome of the Borgias. The stunning cover is by Alexael. Launches Mar 6, 2023.

https://www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2022/11/25/cover-reveal-a-blackened-mirror-by-jo-graham/

#fantasy #history #myth #romance #Borgias #sff

Cover Reveal: A Blackened Mirror by Jo Graham

I first became aware of Jo Graham when I read Black Ships, an absorbing take on the Aenead with a young sibyl as its narrator. Since then, Jo has gone on to create twenty-seven speculative fiction novels (including the Calpurnian…

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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Aug 15, 2021

A #review of an #exhibition of #art in the #MetropolitanMuseum in #NewYork that was patronized by the #Medici family in #Renaissance #Italy:

"The Medici As Artists Saw Them", The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/the-medici-as-artists-saw-them).

#Florence #History #ArtHistory #Papacy #Borgias #Painting

The Medici as Artists Saw Them

The guileful Medici family advanced humanism in all the arts in Florence, and most of the city’s painters fell into line, flattering the dynasty with masterly portraiture.