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The Borgia family : rumor and representation
- Title
- The Borgia family : rumor and representation / edited by Jennifer Mara De Silva.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-548 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- De Silva, Jennifer Mara
- Description
- xi, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Fortunes of the Borgia Family explores the historical and cultural structures that underpin the Borgia family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the popular imagination."--
- Alternative Title
- Rumor and representation
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "What would Rome be without a Good Plot? Telling Tales about the Borgias" / Jennifer Mara DeSilva -- "Sexuality, Agency, and Honour in the Connections between the Borgia and Farnese Families in Renaissance Rome" / Loek Luiten -- "Lucrezia Borgia's Honor" / Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo -- "Lucrezia Borgia's Performances at the Este Court" / Sergio Costola -- "Electing Alexander... or Not? The Development and Reception of a Reacting to the Past RoleImmersion Game Based on the Papal Conclave of 1492" / William Keene Thompson -- "Picture the Borgias: What Pope Alexander VI's Appartamento Borgia can tell us" / Roger Gill -- "Depictions of Pope Alexander VI as the Devil" / Katharine Fellows -- "Caught between Fact and Fantasy: The Borgia in English literature" / Stella Fletcher -- "The Hispanic Ballad of the Death of the Duke of Gandía: Propaganda against or Sympathy for the Borgia?" / Clara Marías -- "Prince, Villain, Fortune's fool: Is Cesare Borgia's reputation beyond repair?" / Lucinda Byatt -- "From Church to Street: Making Meaning out of Cesare Borgia's Death and Burials in Viana, Navarre" / Alexander Mizumoto-Gitter -- "The Secularization of Cesare Borgia and the American Motion Picture Production Code" / Jennifer Mara DeSilva -- Requiescat in Pace: The Afterlife of the Borgia in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood / Amanda G. Madden.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-548
- ISBN
- 9780367210847
- 0367210843
- 9780367210854
- 0367210851
- LCCN
- 2019032531
- OCLC
- 1104931180
- Title
- The Borgia family : rumor and representation / edited by Jennifer Mara De Silva.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1492-1559
- Added Author
- De Silva, Jennifer Mara, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: The Borgia family New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429265280 (DLC) 2019032532
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-548