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	C. H. F. [Carl Heinrich Frentzel] Leben des Cäsar Borgia, Herzogs von Valentinois. In Zwei Theilen Berlin, bei friedrich Maurer, 1782 [2010]
	H. de Burghraeve Lucrèce Borgia ou Une famille d’empoisonneurs au XVe Siècle Avec un préambule de Victor Hugo [Sans date environs 1900 / 1905, chez Albert Méricant, Paris] meme editeur Jerôme Monti, Le roi de la montagne. [2010]
	J. Talbot Lucrezia Borgia’s Little Party A Comedy in One Act London / New York, Samuel French Ltd, 1933 [2010]
	Richard Gaunt Lucrezia Borgia’s lover Robert Hale & Company, London 1971 Pope Alexander VI arranged to annul the marriage of his daughter, Lucrezia Borgia and Giovanni Sforza on grounds of non-consummation. He wanted her to marry a Prince of Naples for political reasons. Giovanni refused to give up his wife but threatened with death, he fled from Rome. Meanwhile Lucrezia was desperately in love with a young Papal Chamberlain. Surrounded by cruelty, intrigue and danger she found brief happiness with her lover before becoming pregnant. Rumours circulated throughout Rome as they endeavoured to keep their secret for if the King of Naples, or Giovanni, found out, the Pope's plans would be flung into confusion. This exciting tale has a truly Machiavellian twist in it which will keep you enthralled until the last page. (Publisher’s blurb)
	Vº Centenario de la Muerte de César Borgia en Viana Aut Caesar aut nihil (et nihil fuit) Réquiem por César Borgia en el 500 anioversario de su muerte, sobre canto llano y polifonía de difuntos de compositores españoles de la época. Program of the Requiem Mass for Cesare Borgia, on the 5^th Centenery of his death, celebrated on Sunday 11^th of March in the Church of Santa Maria in Viana, Navarra
	Anne P. Fuller (ed.) Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland Papal Letters, Vol. XVII, part II Alexander VI (1492 – 1503) Vatican Registers 1492-1503 COIMISIÚN LÁIMHSCRÍBHINNÍ NA hÉIREANN Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1998 ISBN 1 874280 142 THE PRESENT INSTALMENT of the Calendar provides full English summaries of all the British and Irish material in the Vatican Registers of Alexander VI (1492-1503). The bulk of the entries - typically Scottish and Irish - are letters expedited by the camera and the apostolic secretariate. However, the main interest of the volume lies in its coverage of the pope's Secreta or private office registers. This is, or rather was, a highly classified source and illustrates the course of Anglo-papal relations at the highest level. Unfortunately, the Secreta have been mutilated. To make good the loss the volume collects missing letters from twenty-five different archives and libraries. The introduction explores the clandestine world of the pope's private secretaries - one of them an agent of Henry VII - and considers how the registers came to be mutilated. While primarily intended for historians, the volume also serves other disciplines. There is something for the incunabulist; and even new evidence for the dating of the oldest pieces of English paper.
	Anne P. Fuller (ed.) Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland Papal Letters, Vol. XVI Alexander VI (1492 – 1503) Lateran Registers Part one: 1492-1498 COIMISIÚN LÁIMHSCRÍBHINNÍ NA hÉIREANN Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1986 ISBN 1 874280 223 This volume covers the one hundred and three Lateran Registers of Pope Alexander VI. All belong to the first six years of the pontificate.
	Gaetano Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia. Opera in two acts and prologue with Italian and English words. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pitman Boosey and Co., London and New York [187-?] Synopsis (for more information click here) THE scene is laid in Venice, where Lucrezia Borgia, wife of the Duke of Ferraro, has come in secret to pay a visit to her young son, Gennaro, the offspring of an early amour, whose existence is unknown to any of her friends. Gennaro has been brought up by a fisherman, but on entering the army has risen rapidly, owing to his gallant conduct on the battlefield, and he is the friend of the noblest young lords in Venice when Lucrezia finds means to make his acquaintance, taking care to keep her true identity and relationship from him. The young man is pleased and flattered at the pleasure taken in his society by the beautiful stranger, but when later his friends, penetrating her disguise, inform him that she is the daughter of the hated and autocratic Borgia family herself a notorious poisoner he turns from her with loathing. So furious is he at the discovery, that he tears off her name and arms from the palace gates, for which in-sulting act he is dragged before the Duke of Ferraro, who condemns him to death. Being jealous of his wife's predilection for the young man, he commands her to offer a cup of poison to the prisoner, and in spite of Lucrezia's passionate pleadings to him to show mercy, the enraged husband refuses to listen to her, knowing well that she has never shown a like interest in the fate of many others he has condemned, and believing this to be the proof that the handsome youth is her lover. The distracted mother is thus compelled to offer her son the poisoned draught, but as the Duke departs immediately the wine has been administered, bidding her follow her victim to the door, she secures an opportunity to produce the anti-dote, which she always carries, and thus saves the life of Gennaro, whom she entreats to leave the city at once. Gennaro, however, does not follow out her instructions, remaining to attend a banquet to which his chief friend, the Duke d'Orsini, has promised to take him, and which is to take place in gorgeous state at the palace of Princess Negroni. This feast, how-ever, ends in terrible tragedy, for Lucrezia makes use of it in order to carry out her revenge on the young nobles who had spoken ill of her when first she made the acquaintance of her son, and secretly she finds means to poison the wine which they are to drink, concealing herself behind a curtain to gloat over the result of her deadly plot. After the wine has been handed round she discovers, to her horror, that Gennaro whom she had imagined to be safely out of the city is amongst the guests, and has also swallowed the fatal draught, thus partaking of poison a second time by her hand. Having heard her order the attendants to show the coffins prepared for the five poisoned guests, he demands to be shown the sixth; but, full of grief, Lucrezia quickly offers him the antidote, entreating him to swallow it instantly, since a moment's delay is dangerous. Gennaro, however, passionately refuses to be saved, when his friends are even now dying, and he pours forth the wildest execrations upon the murderess. Then Lucrezia, in utter distraction, reveals her true relationship to him, and again entreats him to live for her sake; but Gennaro scornfully thrusts her from him, and, declaring he would rather die than own such a mother, he falls expiring at her feet. Lucrezia, with a cry of utter despair and remorse, clasps him in her arms; and as her beloved son draws his last breath, she also, overcome by her emotion and wretchedness, falls beside him, and as the Duke of Ferraro enters to behold her expected victory, she reveals to him her secret and expires.
	Alexander Gordon De Leevens van den Paus Alexander den VI. en van zyn Zoon Cæsar Borgia. Eerste Deel Rotterdam by Jan Daniel Beman, 1731 Read the text of the original via this link: The lives of pope Alexander VI and of his son Cesar Borgia, by Alexander Gordon
	Anne P. Fuller (ed.) Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland Papal Letters, Vol. XVII, Part 1 Alexander VI (1492 – 1503) Lateran Registers Part two: 1495-1503 COIMISIÚN LÁIMHSCRÍBHINNÍ NA hÉIREANN Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1994 ISBN 1 874280 04 5 The present instalment of the Calendar carries on from where the previous one (CPL XVI) left off, and covers the remaining chancery registers of Alexander VI (1492-1503). The 996 page volume makes accessible, in English calendar form, a mass of valuable material hitherto unknown. The entries concern people and places throughout the British Isles, ranging from a dispensation for the poet laureate of Arthur, prince of Wales, to the reform of an English Benedictine abbey; and from the rehabilitation of an Irishman who had conspired against his bishop to the excommunication of marauding bands in the Scottish Highlands. Equipped with indices and apparatus, the volume is an essential research tool for students of British and Irish history in the pre-Reformation period.
	Gerard Noel The Renaissance Popes. Culture, power and the making of the Borgia myth Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Constable and Robinson (28 Sep 2006) Language English ISBN-10: 1845293436 ISBN-13: 978-1845293437 Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4.2 cm Synopsis Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the world's largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new fundraising initiative was launched: the sale of indulgences. The Renaissance Popes were statesmen, warriors, patrons of the arts - as well as churchmen. These were earthly times and the reputations of popes like Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'II Terrible' for murder, poison, sodomy and simony vary only in degree. Meanwhile, the sin of heresy, which threatens the very core of the Catholic soul, was tirelessly targeted by two other lasting innovations of the period: the Inquisition and witch-hunts. Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, is seen to this day as the embodiment of this iniquity. But Gerard Noel shows this is unjust, and based on false confessions and historical myth. What's more, Alexander created the blueprint for reform - the first of its kind - that would eventually lead to the Counter-Reformation. In his survey of the colourful reigns of the seventeen Renaissance Popes and his examination of the great Borgia myth, Noel brings to light the true legacy - political, artistic, and religious - of an extraordinary time.
	Uwe Neumahr Cesare Borgia. Der Fürst und die italienische Renaissance Gebundene Ausgabe: 334 Seiten Verlag: Piper (Januar 2007) Sprache: Deutsch ISBN-10: 3492048544 ISBN-13: 978-3492048545 Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,8 x 14,6 x 3,4 cm Kurzbeschreibung Nennt man seinen Namen, hat man die ganze Renaissance vor Augen: Eine Welt voller unsterblicher Kunstwerke, von Glanz und Größe, von Luxus und Ausschweifungen, von Liebe und Tod. Cesare Borgia (1475-1507) verkörpert diese Zeit wie niemand sonst: Als Sohn des berüchtigtsten Papstes der Kirchengeschichte, Söldnerführer und Machtpolitiker, scheiterte er nur knapp bei dem Versuch, Italien zu einigen und König zu werden. Leonardo da Vinci arbeitete für ihn, sein Bewunderer Machiavelli nahm ihn zum Vorbild für den »Fürsten«. Uwe Neumahr schreibt eine Lebensgeschichte, die die ganze Faszination dieses Mannes widerspiegelt und doch objektiv untersucht, wer Cesare Borgia wirklich war. Jedes Verbrechen hat man ihm angedichtet - aber was davon ist wahr? Über das Produkt Glanzvoller Herzog und grausamer Heerführer, Förderer der Künste und korrupter Kardinal, Liebhaber der schönsten Frauen Italiens und skrupelloser Machtpolitiker: Cesare Borgia war "der Fürst" und die Renaissance. Nennt man seinen Namen, hat man die ganze Renaissance vor Augen: Eine Welt voller unsterblicher Kunstwerke, von Glanz und Größe, von Luxus und Ausschweifungen, von Liebe und Tod. Cesare Borgia (1475 - 1507) verkörpert diese Zeit wie niemand sonst: Als Sohn des berüchtigtsten Papstes der Kirchengeschichte, Söldnerführer und Machtpolitiker, scheiterte er nur knapp bei dem Versuch, Italien zu einigen und König zu werden. Leonardo da Vinci arbeitete für ihn, sein Bewunderer Machiavelli nahm ihn zum Vorbild für den "Fürsten". Uwe Neumahr schreibt eine Lebensgeschichte, die die ganze Faszination dieses Mannes widerspiegelt und doch objektiv untersucht, wer Cesare Borgia wirklich war. Jedes Verbrechen hat man ihm angedichtet - aber was davon ist wahr?

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