Word: borgia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caesar Borgia, Casanova, Talleyrand, Byron, and Thomas a Kempis, St. Francis of Assisi,--these are the sinners and saints whose characters are examined here as a study in contrasts. All of them acted according to Mr. Bradford from distinct motives, so that the casual reader is free to choose his own favorite form of sanctity or sinfulness for study. But whether he turns to St. Francis or Casanova, he will find the same gently ironic insistence on the underlying egotism which prompted them...
...preference. Mr. Bradford's interpretation of Lord Byron as a man who was moved more by the glamor of sin than by sin itself will not seem new or very illuminating to anyone fairly familiar with the life and work of the poet. The portrait of the Borgia, painted against the background of a blood-and-roses Renaissance (that familiar stage-set) deals too casually with the violent contrasts which from constant repitition have lost their original value...
Other Fletcher murders: The Borgia Cabinet, The Yorkshire Moorland Murder, The Dressing Room Murder, The Murder at W rides Park, Murder in Four Degrees...
...Tyrant. An unfailing source of excitement are the works of Rafael Sabatini, famed sword-&-cloakster. The Tyrant is not a dramatization of. any of the author's 25 novels, but amounts to an extract of all of them. The story is based on the conquests of Cesare Borgia in middle Italy...
...Sabatini Cesare Borgia, as the author has previously been at pains to point out (The Life of Cesare Borgia), is a much maligned warrior and statesman whose evil reputation is attributable to the lying tongues of his envious contemporaries. To save the state of Solignola, Panthasilea Degli Speranzoni (Lily Cahill) attempts to ensnare Borgia (Louis Calhern), but instead falls in love with him and ruins her plot. When Solignola falls, she comes home to witness her family's disgrace, her lover's triumph, snatches from him a poisoned cup and drinks it. Aware of her own clan...