Word: borgias
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...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...
Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...long ago a motorcycle policeman stopped her, asked her why, she was speeding. "Ah," she answered, "It is not me. It is this car and it gives me oh! so much emotion." The officer made no arrest. He, too, was captivated by the charm of the modern civilized Lucrezia Borgia...
...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...