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...worth of borrowed Renaissance paintings and tapestries. (Once inside the store, shoppers bought plenty of Italian and French dresses that were specially designed for the promotion, as well as bed linens with prints of Leonardo's inventions and Italian silk ties with the insigne of the House of Borgia.) This week, in Sakowitz's annual wine auction, the store will sell off rare vintages, including one of the eight remaining Jeroboams of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1929. All this activity has been more than culturally rewarding. In the past ten years, sales of Sakowitz Inc. have risen...
...inside is rotting at the core. Raised as a bluestocking, Micol quips to Giorgio that she's writing her thesis on Emily Dickenson, "a dried-up spinster like me." Minutes later, in giving him a mock botany lesson, she points to a tree she imagines planted by Lucrezia Borgia. The connotations of that name reveal in her no dried-up spinster, but the malevolence of cruel sexuality. All her dewyeyed clinging to a golden past is merely the weapon she uses to emasculate Giorgio's overworshipful maleness at the altar of a bitchgoddess. Not only cold, she is consciously evil...
Because their motives and personalities are less obscured by distracting flamboyance, it is the women-the ones who loved the scoundrels-who emerge, almost subliminally, as the book's most understandable human beings. Lucrezia Borgia, unjustly slandered as a poisoner and profligate, seems much to be pitied -a woman who may have had a lover or two but who gave her third husband at least seven children before her death at 39. Only a few women railed at their fate. Beatrice d'Este Sforza, pregnant and angered at her husband's open infidelity with...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m). Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson and Fritz Weaver are featured in The Borgia Stick (1967), the story of a crime syndicate's scheme to invade big business...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Don Murray and Inger Stevens are pawns of organized crime in The Borgia Slick. Another full-length movie getting its premiere...