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THE BORGIAS: THE MOST INFAMOUS FAMILY IN HISTORY?
12 January 2021 @ 7:00 pm
If you’d like to hear this online lecture, please email
pewseyvale@theartssociety.org
This online lecture by Sarah Dunant reveals the real family that dominated the Papacy and Italian politics during the last decade of the 15th century: the charismatic figure of Pope Alexander VI, living inside his sumptuously decorated apartments, the career of his son, Cesare, cardinal, general, employer of Da Vinci and the model for Machiavelli’s The Prince, and the journey of Lucrezia Borgia from “the greatest whore in Rome” to a devout and treasured duchess of the city Ferrara. Sometimes truth is more intoxicating than myth.
