Borgias in our daily life

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Novels

  • Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger
  • The Family by Mario Puzo. www
  • Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce.
  • The Borgias by Cloulas, Ivan.
  • Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire
  • De scharlaken stad (The scarlet city) by Hella Haasse
  • Borgia by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père.
  • In Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Ashley Wilkes states to Charles Hamilton and Scarlett O'Hara that Rhett Butler looks like one of the Borgias.
  • Milo Manara, an Italian comic book creator, drew a comic book divided in three parts depicting the story of the Borgia family. The texts were written by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
  • Borgia, the novel of a family by Klabund.
  • The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis.
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson has a chapter entitled, "Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias".
  • The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, is focused on the Medici household and Florence.

Film and TV

Neil Jordan's proposed film Borgia and the Spanish-Italian 2006 film Los Borgia (www) depict the life of the family. The family was also the subject of the critically-derided BBC series The Borgias.

Alan Moore's comic book Promethea makes mention of a restaurant named Borgia's, in which five courses are served, followed by an antidote.

The Godfather Part III refers to The Borgias when Michael Corleone is in the Vatican attempting to receive ratification from the Pope on a business deal own by the Catholic Church.

The Third Man (1949) offers a famous quote, penned by Orson Welles for his character Harry Lime, in which he says: "Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."

The 1949 Prince of Foxes (film) is Welles vehicle more directly related to the Borgias; it is an adaptation of 1947 novel Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger. Orson Welles plays Cesare Borgia as the villain to Tyrone Power's hero, an artist-politico called Andrea Orsini. While Orsini's character is fictional and the film adheres to a romantic swashbuckling formula, the action's setting in the Borgia conquest of the Romagna region and the political machinations behind Lucrezia Borgia's marriage into the powerful d'Este family give the film a modicum of historical legitimacy.