What would Rome be without a good plot?

Follows from @corragenial

[coragenial]

okay so I'm legitimately returning to tumblr after a 10+ year hiatus because I watched The Borgias and it's consumed my entire brain and I need somewhere to rant about it. First I watched The Borgias, then Borgia: Faith and Fear, then read The Family and Cesare: Il Creatore che ha distrutto, then read bios on Lucrezia and Cesare, then ate through pretty much all the fanfic on the internet, wrote my own, and also started making a few fan edits. the tragedy of coming to a fandom 10+ years too late, gotta put in work

[coragenial]

ok but alternative season 3 where Micheletto still kills Pascal yet doesn't leave (because let's be real, he wouldn't actually leave). He's ordered to kill Alfonso, as in history, and he must kill Lucrezia's husband as he just killed his own love. Lucrezia runs into the room as he's completing the act. Lucrezia, who he's spent months with in Naples, who he killed Ferdinand for, who he's instructed in poisons - to whom he now shows as much devotion as he does Valentino himself.

the angst the pain etc

[gyllenhaallsjake]

THE BORGIAS (2011-2013) S01E03 - The Moor Embrace me, Cesare. Forgive my ambitions for you. But they have been such since the day you were born. Had I not embraced a career in the church, then perhaps things would have been different.

[aegonette]

same, girlies

[prideandprejudice]

“Well, black satin it is, then.”

[trueloveisdelena]

precious sinnamon rolls

[fuckyeahborgia]

[lady-arryn]

THE BORGIAS costume appreciation: 10/∞ (costume design by Gabriella Pescucci)

[prideandprejudice]

“You could advise him [King Louis of France] that once I have taken Forlì, I will deal with Naples.”

[divineandmajesticinone]

THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) dir. Neil Jordan

[behindfairytales]

“Should I bring my child here, Micheletto? Into this theatre of cruelty?” “Well at least now, my lady, the choice is your own”

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER as Lucrezia Borgia The Borgias, The Wolf and the Lamb (s03e05)

[riosnecktattoo]

Cesare Borgia / Season 3

[dailyborgia]

THE BORGIAS | 3x02 ‘The Purge’

[coragenial]

The Borgias 2.07 The Siege at Forli (2012) (Unfilmed draft) cr. Neil Jordan // Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince, ch. 3, tr. W.K Marriott (1908)

[sugurugetos]

The others bought and sold. We merely proved ourselves better at the game, but we draw the line at murder. Do we not? THE BORGIAS: 1.02 — The Assassin

[dailyborgia]

RODRIGO AND CESARE BORGIA THE BORGIAS (2011-2013)

[coragenial]

I purchased a set of several s2 draft scripts (2.01, 2.05, and 2.07 - all incidentally favorites for one reason or another) and they are SO interesting! Reinforces a few of my preconceptions about how writing likely evolved over time for several characters and they also contain some interesting deleted scenes. Will be posting snippets!