Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Material Culture - The Renaissance Era, The Borgias


The Borgias:
(Horrible Histories - The Borgia Family)

(images from top to bottom; Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia),  Lucrezia Borgia, Cesare Borgia and Four books by various authors about The Borgias)



The Borgias were known for commiting crimes. Cesare, the eldest son of Rodrigo Borgia, was an advenruter and a murderer and his sister, Lucrezia, was a poisoner.
Rodrigo Borgia was known for having several mistresses, but there was one in particular that he cared for. Vannozza dei Cattanei, was one of his mistresses, and the mother of his four children, the youngest being a young boy named Gioffre.




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