The very name Borgia brings to mind lurid imaginings. This powerful Sopranos-like Italian family dominated the Renaissance for many years. To maintain power, they ...

Well, “The Borgias” finally went there. (Spoiler alert! Stop if you haven’t seen Seaosn 3, Episode 3.) It’s taken more than two seasons, but the delicate dance between Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia ...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCREZIA BORGIA (343 pp.)—Mario Bellonc!—Harcourt, Brace ($5). Who was Lucrezia Borgia? To the incurable readers of melodrama and Sunday supplements, a woman of glowing and ...

What inspired realpolitik bare-knuckler Niccolo Machiavelli to compose his 16th century masterwork, The Prince? The real question might not be what, but whom? Cesare Borgia stands as the best ...

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, ...

Lucrezia Borgia was a cold-hearted bitch, according to author John Faunce. The facts about Lucrezia’s scandalous life as the bastard daughter of Pope Alexander VI are well-documented. The details ...

Pope Alexander VI takes a new lover and throws a grand, pagan fete for the citizens of Rome when a cache of ancient artifacts is discovered; the rivalry between brothers Cesare and Juan spills into ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. An oddity—and a fairly minor one—from the great Abel Gance, Lucrezia Borgia (1935) is really nothing more than a “boddice ripper” ...

Stax here with a review of the screenplay for Borgia! This 128-page revised third draft dated June 2001 is by writer-director Neil Jordan (Interview With The Vampire), although Laeta Kalogridis has ...