Title: The Borgia family : rumor and representation /
Authors: De Silva, Jennifer Mara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Borgia family.; Borgia family In mass media.; Borgia family; Nobility Italy History; Renaissance Italy; Historical films History and criticism; Historical films; Mass media; Nobility; Renaissance; Italy History; Italy
Abstract: "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."--
Contents: "What would Rome be without a Good Plot? Telling Tales about the Borgias" / Jennifer Mara DeSilva -- "Sexuality, Agency, and Honour in the Connections between the Borgia and Farnese Families in Renaissance Rome" / Loek Luiten -- "Lucrezia Borgia's Honor" / Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo -- "Lucrezia Borgia's Performances at the Este Court" / Sergio Costola -- "Electing Alexander... or Not? The Development and Reception of a Reacting to the Past RoleImmersion Game Based on the Papal Conclave of 1492" / William Keene Thompson -- "Picture the Borgias: What Pope Alexander VI's Appartamento Borgia can tell us" / Roger Gill -- "Depictions of Pope Alexander VI as the Devil" / Katharine Fellows -- "Caught between Fact and Fantasy: The Borgia in English literature" / Stella Fletcher -- "The Hispanic Ballad of the Death of the Duke of Gandía: Propaganda against or Sympathy for the Borgia?" / Clara Marías -- "Prince, Villain, Fortune's fool: Is Cesare Borgia's reputation beyond repair?" / Lucinda Byatt -- "From Church to Street: Making Meaning out of Cesare Borgia's Death and Burials in Viana, Navarre" / Alexander Mizumoto-Gitter -- "The Secularization of Cesare Borgia and the American Motion Picture Production Code" / Jennifer Mara DeSilva -- Requiescat in Pace: The Afterlife of the Borgia in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood / Amanda G. Madden.