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The Borgia Family - Rumor and Representation (Hardcover)
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The Borgia Family - Rumor and Representation (Hardcover)
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The Borgia Family: Rumor and Representation explores the historical
and cultural structures that underpin the early modern Borgia
family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the
popular imagination. The book balances studies focusing on early
modern observations of the Borgias and studies deconstructing later
incarnations on the stage, on the page, on the street, and on the
screen. It reveals how contemporary observers, later authors and
artists, and generations of historians reinforced and perpetuated
both rumor and reputation, ultimately contributing to the Borgia
Black Legend and its representations. Focused on the deeds and
posthumous reputations of Pope Alexander VI and his children,
Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, the volume charts the choices made by
the family and contextualizes them amid contemporary expectations
and reactions. Extending beyond their deaths, it also investigates
how the Borgias became emblems of anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish
criticism in the later early modern period and their residing
reputation as the best and worst of the Renaissance. Exploring a
spectrum of traditional and modern media, The Borgia Family
contextualizes both Borgia deeds and their modern representations
to analyze the family's continuing history and meaning in the
twenty-first century. It will be of great interest to researchers
and students working on interdisciplinary aspects of the
Renaissance and early modern Italy.
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