The Fortunes of the Borgia Family explores the historical and cultural structures that underpin the Borgia family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the popular imagination. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of the Renaissance and Early Modern Italy.
The Fortunes of the Borgia Family explores the historical and cultural structures that underpin the Borgia family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the popular imagination. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of the Renaissance and Early Modern Italy.
Jennifer Mara DeSilva is an associate professor of History at Ball State University. Her published research explores the mechanics of family strategy and group identity, as well as the practical realities of ecclesiastical reform in early modern Europe. Her previous publications include, as editor, The Sacralization of Space and Behaviour in the Early Modern World (2015) and Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: What would Rome be without a good plot? Telling tales about the Borgias; Chapter 2: Sexuality, agency, and honor in the connections between the Borgia and Farnese families in Renaissance Rome; Chapter 3: Lucrezia Borgia's honor; Chapter 4: Lucrezia Borgia's performances at the Este Court; Chapter 5: Electing Alexander... or not? The development and reception of a Reacting to the Past role-immersion game based on the papal conclave of 1492; Chapter 6: Picture the Borgias: what Pope Alexander VI's Appartamento Borgia can tell us; Chapter 7: Depictions of Pope Alexander VI as the Devil; Chapter 8: Caught between fact and fantasy: the Borgia in English literature; Chapter 9: The Hispanic Ballad of the Death of the Duke of Gandía: propaganda against or sympathy for the Borgias?; Chapter 10: Prince, villain, Fortune's fool: is Cesare Borgia's reputation beyond repair?; Chapter 11: From church to street: making meaning out of Cesare Borgia's death and burials in Viana, Navarre; Chapter 12: The secularization of Cesare Borgia and the American Motion Picture Production Code; Chapter 13: Requiescat in pace: the afterlife of the Borgia in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Chapter 1: What would Rome be without a good plot? Telling tales about the Borgias; Chapter 2: Sexuality, agency, and honor in the connections between the Borgia and Farnese families in Renaissance Rome; Chapter 3: Lucrezia Borgia's honor; Chapter 4: Lucrezia Borgia's performances at the Este Court; Chapter 5: Electing Alexander... or not? The development and reception of a Reacting to the Past role-immersion game based on the papal conclave of 1492; Chapter 6: Picture the Borgias: what Pope Alexander VI's Appartamento Borgia can tell us; Chapter 7: Depictions of Pope Alexander VI as the Devil; Chapter 8: Caught between fact and fantasy: the Borgia in English literature; Chapter 9: The Hispanic Ballad of the Death of the Duke of Gandía: propaganda against or sympathy for the Borgias?; Chapter 10: Prince, villain, Fortune's fool: is Cesare Borgia's reputation beyond repair?; Chapter 11: From church to street: making meaning out of Cesare Borgia's death and burials in Viana, Navarre; Chapter 12: The secularization of Cesare Borgia and the American Motion Picture Production Code; Chapter 13: Requiescat in pace: the afterlife of the Borgia in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
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