Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia

Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia is the incestuous het pairing of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. They are first and foremost a Historical RPF pairing, although modern fandom tends to draw most heavily from various fictionalization adaptations.
==History==
Cesare and Lucrezia, along with their brothers Giovanni "Juan" and Gioffre, were the children of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (who later became Pope Alexander VI) and his long-time mistress Vannozza Cattanei. Born illegitimate, their father later legitimized them.
Rumors of incest were started by their enemies as slander. These rumors claimed an incestuous relationship between Lucrezia/Cesare, Lucrezia/Rodrigo, and sometimes Lucrezia/Juan as well. There is no historical evidence to back them up. However, Lucrezia and Cesare were very close, so "you could at least see where the rumormongers were coming from with Cesare and Lucrezia."
===Murders===
Cesare was rumored to be behind the murder of both Lucrezia's lover, Perotto, and her second husband, Alfonso d'Aragon.
===Foot-holding===
In September 7, 1502, when Lucrezia was sick after a stillbirth, Cesare came to see her, and this was written of them:
===Lucrezia the younger===
Cesare named one of his bastard daughters Lucrezia after his sister.
==Fictionalized adaptations==
Title 	Date 	Creator 	Medium
The Borgias 	2011–2013 	Showtime, Neil Jordan 	TV series
Borgia 	2011–2014 	Canal+, Tom Fontana 	TV series
Los Borgia 	2006 	dir. Antonio Hernández 	Film
Blood and Beauty 	2013 	Sarah Dunant 	Novel
In the Name of the Family 	2015 	Sarah Dunant 	Novel
Sins of the House of Borgia 	2008 	Sarah Bower 	Novel
The Borgias 	1981 	Sarah Bradford and John Prebble	Novel
The Family 	2001 	Mario Puzo 	Novel
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 	2010 	Ubisoft 	Video game
Cesare il creatore che ha distrutto	2005–present	Fuyumi Soryo 	Manga
Mirror, Mirror 	2003 	Gregory Maguire 	Novel
For some non-fiction recs, see 
===Tropes===
==Fandom==
Widely beloved and surprisingly non-controversial, Cesare/Lucrezia is sometimes considered the gold standard for incest ships.
===The Borgias (Showtime)===
Their depiction in The Borgias is very popular in modern fandom. It has a slow burn structure.
Elements from this depiction sometimes show up in other incest ship fanworks, such as recreating or reusing certain lines. "Only a Borgia can truly love Borgia," has become a staple, in the same vein as Wuthering Heights "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
François Arnaud is a particular fan favorite due to his shipper's tendencies.
The show was canceled after 3 seasons, and did not get a proper ending. Neil Jordan wrote a screenplay for a movie to end it with, called The Borgia Apocalypse, which shippers were greatly displeased with, leading many to say that it was "for the best" that it ended where it did.
===Borgia (Canal+)===
Borgia is less popular in fandom than The Borgias, but is still overall the second most popular Borgia series in fandom.
==Fanworks==
===Fanfic===
* by Elizabeth
* by alienor_woods
===Memes===
* by sail-not-drift, a Folgers "Home for the Holidays" Commercial meme
===Fanart===
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* Cesare and Lucrezia by borgiabastard
==Gallery==
File:Cesare lucrezia by yumochka.jpg|Cesare_Lucrezia by Yumochka (2012) fanart based on the Showtime show featuring François Arnaud and Holliday Grainger as Cesare and Lucrezia
File:Assassinscreed Lucrzia and Cesare.jpg|Cesare ♥ Lucrezia cosplay by lydinecosplay (2015) The cosplay is based on how the characters appear in the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood from 2010.
File:Eternal Love by Svetland Palamarchuk.jpg|Eternal love by Lana Marcy (2017) The image is based on the Showtime show featuring François Arnaud and Holliday Grainger as Cesare and Lucrezia.
File:Cesare and Lucretia by Lana Marcy.jpg|Art by Lana Marcy (2015)
File:Cesare and Lucretia 2 by Lana Marcy.jpg|Art by Lana Marcy (2015)
File:You are never here, Cesare.png|You are never here, Cesare fan edit by tanithadavenport, based upon the Canal+ show the edit features Mark Ryder and Isolda Dychauk as Cesare and Lucrezia in the Canal+ show
File:Los Borgias Fan Edit.png|Untitled aesthetic edit by vega-ofthe-lyre, based upon Los Borgia the edit features Sergio Peris-Mencheta and María Valverde as Cesare and Lucrezia in Los Borgia 
==Resources==
* AO3 tag: Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia
* Tumblr tags:
** cesare x lucrezia
** lucesare
* Shipcestuous:
** cesare and lucrezia: all
** cesare and lucrezia: historical
** cesare and lucrezia: the borgias
** cesare and lucrezia: borgia
==References==
Category:Het Pairings
Borgia
Category:Historical RPFCategory:The Borgias