The Borgia Family (eBook, ePUB)

Rumor and Representation
Redaktion: Desilva, Jennifer Mara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Fortunes of the Borgia Family explores the historical and cultural structures that underpin the Borgia family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the popular imagination. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of the Renaissance and Early Modern Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429560309
• Artikelnr.: 57906049

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: What would Rome be without a good plot? Telling tales about the
Borgias; Chapter 2: Sexuality, agency, and honor in the connections between
the Borgia and Farnese families in Renaissance Rome; Chapter 3: Lucrezia
Borgia's honor; Chapter 4: Lucrezia Borgia's performances at the Este
Court; Chapter 5: Electing Alexander... or not? The development and
reception of a Reacting to the Past role-immersion game based on the papal
conclave of 1492; Chapter 6: Picture the Borgias: what Pope Alexander VI's
Appartamento Borgia can tell us; Chapter 7: Depictions of Pope Alexander VI
as the Devil; Chapter 8: Caught between fact and fantasy: the Borgia in
English literature; Chapter 9: The Hispanic Ballad of the Death of the Duke
of Gandía: propaganda against or sympathy for the Borgias?; Chapter 10:
Prince, villain, Fortune's fool: is Cesare Borgia's reputation beyond
repair?; Chapter 11: From church to street: making meaning out of Cesare
Borgia's death and burials in Viana, Navarre; Chapter 12: The
secularization of Cesare Borgia and the American Motion Picture Production
Code; Chapter 13: Requiescat in pace: the afterlife of the Borgia in
Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood