![]() ![]() ![]() The Borgias appear as flawed but passionate personalities, painted in all their voluptuous glory against a background of shifting European allegiances. Lucrezia is partially rehabilitated as a loving girl whose desire to please her relentlessfather too often results in the back-street murders of men she loves. ![]() So consummate courtier Cesare Borgia rides out to war glittering with wealth, while beneath his costly fabrics his flesh is rotting with syphilis. Dunant moves with ease from the great salons of power to the intimacies of the bedchamber she revels in the gorgeous details of clothes, jewels, tapestries and food, while pulling back the velvet curtain on corruption and brutality. ![]()
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