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Anguirel · 02-02-2006, 08:46 AM

Sorry, shot in the dark. She published a biography of a "good duchess"-style Lucrezia a couple of years ago.

Actually, I'm a fan of Cesare, though his murder of Alfonso D'Aragona takes some forgiving. However flawed he was, he was a kind of genius, as Niccolo recognised. I love the image of him pursuing deer with packs of trained leopards, a veil over his face to hide the growing signs of syphilis. So enigmatic, almost beautiful. A sort of Maeglin figure on a Tolkien level I suppose...

02-02-2006, 08:46 AM	#11
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Sorry, shot in the dark. She published a biography of a "good duchess"-style Lucrezia a couple of years ago. Actually, I'm a fan of Cesare, though his murder of Alfonso D'Aragona takes some forgiving. However flawed he was, he was a kind of genius, as Niccolo recognised. I love the image of him pursuing deer with packs of trained leopards, a veil over his face to hide the growing signs of syphilis. So enigmatic, almost beautiful. A sort of Maeglin figure on a Tolkien level I suppose... __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso