Word: borgia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Estensi were one of the proudest and most ancient reigning houses in Italy. In Leonardo's time, besides the heir Alphonso, whom Lucrezia Borgia married after she had had her third husband murdered, there were two d'Este daughters, Isabella and Beatrice. Leonardo was working at the splendid court of Ludovico Sforza, later duke of Milan, when his patron married Beatrice, younger and more beautiful of the two. Between her marriage at 16 and her death in childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after...
...alive resulted in a vitriolic newspaper attack in which his history and pretensions were reviewed. This was the second step in his persecution complex. But Stories Toto Told Me (first published in The Yellow Book), In His Own Image, Hadrian the Seventh, Don Tarquinio, Chronicles of the House of Borgia and his translation (from the French translation) of Omar Khayyam won him friends and literary recognition, although he made only about...
...means omniscient diplomat of Florence, has really given himself an undeservedly bad name, says Author Roeder. In his famed book. The Prince, cynical guide to the arts of governing, Machiavelli "preached what he deplored, and professed what he could not practise." A hero worshipper, he set Caesar Borgia on a pedestal. When his hero proved to be no man of iron, Machiavelli's disillusionment was lifelong...
Though his heroes usually take the centre of the stage, Author Roeder fills in his scene with many a background high-spot : the death of Pope Alexander VI, whose corrupt old Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder...
Late in the afternoon of Bishop Spellman's consecration, he gave a reception for his friends in the Vatican's Borgia Apartments, thrown open to such a gathering for the first time in its history...