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4 days ago · Venice, characteristically emerging with spoils from the imbroglio (the Neapolitan ports of Otranto, Brindisi, and Trani), was looking for new triumphs, while Pope Alexander VI was considering means to disrupt the peace of Italy on behalf of his son Cesare Borgia.
1 day ago · Cesare Borgia had the perfect visage to provide an alternative. The story likely derives from portraits of Borgia, for example here , here , and here , and the similarity to many paintings of ...
4 days ago · As the model for political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli’s prince, Cesare Borgia had prepared assiduously to seize power upon his father’s death. But his plans were thwarted by bad fortune: at the very moment when decisive action was required, he himself was deathly ill.
6 days ago · The Italian Renaissance was inspired by the Medici along with other families of Italy, such as the Visconti and Sforza in Milan, the Este in Ferrara, the Borgia and Della Rovere in Rome, and the Gonzaga in Mantua.
2 days ago · Until 1256, the Second Bulgarian Empire was the dominant power in the Balkans, defeating the Byzantine Empire in several major battles. In 1205, Emperor Kaloyan defeated the newly established Latin Empire in the Battle of Adrianople.
5 days ago · Papal supremacy in the Romagna remained little more than nominal until Cesare Borgia, the natural son of Pope Alexander VI, crushed most of the petty princes there, and the Romagna came under papal administration after the death of Alexander in 1503.
1 day ago · For example, Cesare Zavattini and Paul Strand narrated their journey to Zavattini’s hometown in Northern Emilia-Romagna in Un paese (1955) through Zavattini’s written texts and Strand’s photographs. Other photographers, journalists, and ethnographers explored neglected areas of Italy’s South and poverty-stricken rural and urban areas, as in the reportages of Federico Patellani and Alberto Lattuada during the 1930s and 1940s.
