#borgia

[dailyflicks]

THE BORGIAS (2011-2013)

#tvedit #perioddramaedit #the borgias #borgia #drama #2010s #userhayf #zanisummers #usersavana #tuserlou #* #by tha

[prideandprejudice]

BORGIA | 1.06

#tvedit #perioddramaedit #borgiaedit #borgia #lucrezia borgia #cesare borgia #cesare x lucrezia #usermyr #tusereliza #userhayf #by tha

[illustratus]

A lock of the hair of Lucrezia Borgia in the Ambrosian Library in Milan, Italy

#lucrezia borgia #hair #milan #italy #ambrosian library #europe #european #italian #history #borgia #lucrezia #lucretia #alfredo ravasco #biblioteca ambrosiana #pinacoteca ambrosiana #renaissance

[dailyborgia]

BORGIA | 3.08

#tvedit #perioddramaedit #borgiaedit #borgia #cesare borgia #lucrezia borgia #cesare x lucrezia #usermyr #tusereliza #ours #by tha

[earlgodwin]

An appreciation post for the beautiful Giulia Farnese: she's so smart, kind, and caring. She believed in women's solidarity and showed deep care for Lucrezia, always delicate and tender with her. Giulia proved her worth and loyalty when she rescued Lucrezia from the hands of her abusive husband. Even when she learned that Rodrigo cheated on her, instead of being envious and hating the young artist he cheated with, she offered a threesome. She never disrespected Vanozza but formed a friendship with her. Giulia was also a great asset to the Borgia family, helping establish and strengthen the church's charitable works, securing the pope's legacy, and earning her brother a cardinal's hat. She only departed when her relationship with Rodrigo was no longer working, with his blessing.

#i miss giulia so much!!! #she's sooo beautiful #that's mother #another reason why i wasn't THAT sad when the borgias got cancelled #like i can't handle lotte verbeek's departure sorry <333 as if david oakes' departure wasn't enough #giulia farnese #lotte verbeek #the borgias #theborgiasedit #period drama #lucrezia borgia #vanozza dei cattanei #holliday grainger #joanne whalley #rodrigo borgia #borgia #the borgia family #by jen

[lenreli]

#borgia #giulio d'este #borgiaedit #perioddramaedit #tvedit #ferdinand kingsley #fkingsleyedit #the sandman cast #thesandmancastedit #sandmancastedit #mine #ferdie friday #brings back some giulio #bc him. also the sword #let him wield more weapons

[pedroam-bang]

Milo Manara’s cover art - Manara Maestro Dell'Eros #2: I Borgia (2013)

#2013 #comics #art #cover art #renaissance #Milo Manara #Manara Maestro Dell'Eros #I Borgia #Borgia #Alejandro Jodorowsky #Lucrezia Borgia #Cesare Borgia #Rodrigo Borgia #Pope Alexander VI #Italy

[mona-mayfairs]

#borgia #isoldadychaukedit #isolda dychauk #lucrezia borgia #tvedit #perioddramaedit #borgia faith and fear #borgiaedit #*m

[rainboopz]

short lineup, but yes that's right some more minor characters though some of which are so.... SO plot vitol as;dfkj

If you must know more though...

Aisling and Borgia run an orphanage and Aisling was a newer higher and had taken care of Cerulean, Dusk, Lucy, and Lionel when they were babies. Orlagh is a magical and eccentric "entrepreneur" and her son Garbhán just really wants a friend haha :3

#artists on tumblr #Character Design #concept art #anthro #furry #the ashbourns #aisling #borgia #orlagh #garbhan

[nicklloydnow]

“THE BORGIAS AND THE MAFIA

In 1455, the Holy See was occupied by Alfonso de Borja, a descendant of this eighth knight, under the name Callixtus III. Having gained the trust of King Alfonso Il of Naples, he came to power at the age of seventy-seven, while suffering from stomach cancer. His pain made him suspicious. He believed only in the loyalty of his Spanish family. Through the legacy of inheritance, his fortune fell into the hands of Rodrigo Borgia, who used it to fund his own ascension to the papal throne. Thus was born the first Mafia clan in history.

The Borgias possessed an absolute thirst for power. Europe had, by then, lost all hope in the goodness of God: the plague known as the Black Death had made miserably clear just how precarious human life can be, and with the bitterness of an orphan deprived of its supreme father, the populace consoled itself by indulging in carnal pleasures. It was in this context that Rodrigo Borgia, now Pope Alexander VI, began trafficking in a very powerful drug: papal bulls, which granted the forgiveness of sins . . . Every citizen could murder, steal, gamble, engage in prostitution or incest or unbridled gluttony, and all without fear: because in exchange for a handful of ducats, the Church offered absolution and the assurance that God would welcome the sinner into heaven.

The Borgias' passion for life, for dominance over all mankind, their disdain of any divine retribution, this absolute lack of morality, offset by their staggering appreciation of fine art, utterly captivated me. Knowing that the respectable Church of today once had a Spanish adventurer at its roots, a clever thief who was surrounded by his bought-and-sold lovers and by his children, each embodying a spiritual summit as well as an abyss - Cesare, strength and tyranny; Lucrezia, beauty and lust; Giovanni, intelligence and vanity; Gioffre, purity and stupidity - reminded me of the lotus plant, whose bright flowers spring from filthy swamps . . . And so I yielded to the temptation to write a comics script: in the form of a vast historical fresco on the creation, growth, and death of this provocative family, so similar to some of the people currently governing our planet.

(…)

In place of the Black Death, we have cancer and AIDS, along with pollution of our air, our water, and our planet. Instead of cities at war, we are witness to entire countries fighting. Christianity and Islam remain in conflict even today. The discovery of the Americas has now become interplanetary exploration. We're experiencing the artistic revolution of the Renaissance through personal computers and the Internet. The papal bulls of yore are today's commercial "benedictions" from the United States. Just as the ducat was the key to paradise during the Renaissance years, our only God is the almighty dollar: whether its value goes up or down and the gates of heaven open or close . . . Just as Machiavelli, in his book The Prince, recommended aggressive invasions to achieve Italian unity, in this day and age a powerful nation (that shall remain nameless) ruthlessly attacks any country, claiming to obstruct "Evil" but spurred on, in fact, by its thirst for oil . . . Today, the Borgias have been replaced by oil mafias, pharmaceutical industry multinationals, drug cartels, and greedy bankers.

And yet, the corruption that flourished during the Renaissance could not prevent the emergence of a Leonardo da Vinci, a Raphael, a Botticelli, a Michelangelo, a Dante, a Machiavelli even, as well as so many others who opened up new vistas to human awareness. This is what brings us great hope: the possibility that the decadence of the world today is just the pain of a chrysalis becoming a butterfly, and that from the last vast crisis into which we plummet a new humanity will arise, one that will look upon us with the same tender compassion we feel for the monkeys.

—Alejandro Jodorowsky

August 2011”

#jodorowsky #alejandro jodorowsky #manara #milo manara #borgia #borgias #graphic novel #comic books #dark horse #papacy #pope #Italy #renaissance #machiavelli

[christophernolan]

BORGIA Season 3 | Episode 8

#borgia #borgiaedit #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #gifshistorical #ceremonial #tusertha #userclayy #cesare borgia #cesare x lucrezia #lucrezia borgia #lucrezia x cesare #gifs #*

[thetudorslovers]

Two or three of her ladies-in-waiting were pretty. One danced well and another, Lucrezia’s cousin Angela Borgia, was charming. Without her knowing, El Prete had picked her as his favorite. Angela’s charm would be the source of great tragedy in Ferrara; even then it must have been one of the reasons for the nightly visits Alfonso’s brothers made to Lucrezia’s palace.

She was the illegitimate daughter of Guillem Ramon de Borja and Sanoguera, son of Otic de Borja y Montcada and his wife Violant Sanoguera. Her mother was Isabel de Montcada. She was also a niece of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI .In her youth she lived in Rome alongside her cousin Lucretia Borgia, whom she accompanied to Ferrara when she married Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara 

Considered as a woman of great beauty, elegance, romantic, with an exquisitely feminine personality. She was absolutely trustworthy friend, confidant of the innermost secrets, favorite companion and assistant to her favorite cousin Lucretia. She won the praise of men of letters as Diomede Guidalotti who dedicated two sonnets to her, and even Ludovico Ariosto dedicated the last canto of Orlando Furioso to her. Pietro Bembo idealized her as an "angel that can pray for me." On 1 August 1504, in the dedication of his "Gli asolani" to the duchess Lucrezia Borgia refers back to his Angela, indicating that Lucrezia's cousin and maiden is "the dear and gallant Madonna Angela Borgia".

#perioddramaedit #history #angela borgia #angela borja #borgia #cortegiania #lucrezia borgia #the borgias #lily james #donne della storia #donne nella storia #donneitaliane #donne italiane #women of history #renaissance women #italian renaissance #women of renaissance #renaissance italy #renaissance #rinascimento #lilyjamesedit #otoc de borja #cesare borgia #rodrigo borgia #isabel de montcada #giulio d'este #ippolito d'este #ferrara #women in history #pietro bembo

[prideandprejudice]

— And when my husband ascends to the ducal throne, I will have his ear, and you will know no better friend than the Duchess of Ferrara.

#tvedit #perioddramaedit #borgiaedit #borgia #lucrezia borgia #giuliano della rovere #userclayy #userhayf #usermyr #by tha

[illustratus]

Lucrezia Borgia by Pinturicchio

Detail from the Disputation of St Catherine of Alexandria

#lucrezia borgia #portrait #renaissance #italy #st catherine of alexandria #st catherine #art #femme fatale #noblewoman #christianity #christian #italian #pinturicchio #bernardino di betto #religious art #religion #europe #european #vatican #rome #vatican city #borgia #history #hall of the saints #sala dei santi #borgia apartments #vatican palace #apostolic palace #fresco #frescoes

[dailyborgia]

— Eminences, your vote proves that to do something holy, you must sometimes do what is unholy.

#tvedit #perioddramaedit #borgiaedit #borgia #cesare borgia #rodrigo borgia #tusereliza #usermyr #ours #by tha

[earlgodwin]

both cesare borgia and juan borgia historically catching homosexuality allegations with other famous figures is incredibly amusing to me!!! leonardo da vinci was so infatuated with cesare that he painted jesus christ using cesare's likeness and sultan cem was so enamored with juan that he let him wear his turkish robes throughout the vatican

#i must say they're the it boys of the renaissance italy #like every description of them is yapping about how gorgeous they looked #so it's not surprising that it wasn't the noble ladies who were obsessed with them but also important historical men as well #love that for them #cesare borgia #juan borgia #the borgias #borgia #history #historical figures #leonardo da vinci #sultan cem #cem sultan #cesare and juan #jesus christ #text post