Word: borgias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to?incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter dine with him, to enjoy their obsequious gagging...
Present was Thomas W. Lament, partner of Mr. Morgan, and designated as his alternate. Absent was Thomas Nelson Perkins, designated by Mr. Young as his alternate. In significance and setting, the scene may be likened to an audience with Cesare Borgia or Lorenzo the Magnificent. Unfortunately for the dramatic effect no one was poisoned...
...Lucrecia Borgia. The incestuous love imputed by historians to Cesare Borgia for his sister, Lucrecia, is perfumed to meet censorship requirements by making him her cousin. This change and the reason for it are naively explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...personages he encountered on these wanderings-prelates, merchants, scholars-the most significant was Caesar Borgia, whose unscrupulous diplomacy Nicolo observed, admired, immortalized in The Prince, treatise of political theory...
...overindulgence in every line of endeavor . . . drunkenness swinging the pendulum to one apex while Prohibition carries it to the heights of the other. Temperance, therefore, should be the avenue we should travel in approaching this great and momentous problem. . . . Shall we have our Government act as a Lucretia Borgia of medieval days, who poisoned all who came into intimate contact with her? . . . I am in favor of taking the Government out of the business of poisoning its citizens...