Cesare Borgia
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| + | "[[Burchard of Worms|Burchard]] tells us how, for the amusement of [[Cesare Borgia|Cesare]], of the Pope, and of [[Lucrezia Borgia|Lucrezia]], these fifty courtesans were set to dance after supper with the servants and some others who were present, dressed at first and afterwards not so. He draws for us a picture of those fifty women on all fours, in all their plastic nudity, striving for the [[chestnut]]s flung to them in that chamber of the Apostolic Palace by Christ’s Vicar--an old man of seventy--by his son and his daughter." | ||
| + | --''[[The Life of Cesare Borgia]]'' (1912) by Rafael Sabatini, on the [[Banquet of Chestnuts]] | ||
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| + | '''Cesare Borgia''' ([[September 13]], [[1475]] – [[March 12]], [[1507]]), [[Duke of Valentinois]] was a Spanish-Italian ''[[Condottieri|condottiero]]'', lord and cardinal. He was the son of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his long-term mistress [[Vannozza dei Cattanei]], sibling to [[Lucrezia Borgia]], [[Gioffre Borgia]] (Jofré in Valentian), Prince of Squillace, and [[Giovanni Borgia]], duke of [[Gandia]], and half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers. | ||
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"Burchard tells us how, for the amusement of Cesare, of the Pope, and of Lucrezia, these fifty courtesans were set to dance after supper with the servants and some others who were present, dressed at first and afterwards not so. He draws for us a picture of those fifty women on all fours, in all their plastic nudity, striving for the chestnuts flung to them in that chamber of the Apostolic Palace by Christ’s Vicar--an old man of seventy--by his son and his daughter." --The Life of Cesare Borgia (1912) by Rafael Sabatini, on the Banquet of Chestnuts |
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Cesare Borgia (September 13, 1475 – March 12, 1507), Duke of Valentinois was a Spanish-Italian condottiero, lord and cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, sibling to Lucrezia Borgia, Gioffre Borgia (Jofré in Valentian), Prince of Squillace, and Giovanni Borgia, duke of Gandia, and half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers.
