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"There's inches in between us.."

-Camilla Cabello

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Giulia Farnese • Atropa Belladonna

Ispired by the beautiful Marta Gastini, who played Giulia Farnese in “Borgia: Faith and Fear”. The whole raison d'être of this thingy was the sleeve with the deadly nightshade/belladonna’s plants on it, but I ended up hating it - whoops.

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Pls, anyone can send me the pdf/epub of 'blood and beauty' by Sarah dunant? It's urgent P L E A S E

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[camilleisback]

"I failed you, Lucrezia. To my eternal shame."

[divusborgia]

Pope Callisto III reaffirmed the idea of resuming the Crusade of the Church and of Christian principles for the conquest of Constantinople against "the anger of the Turks" from the point where Niccolò V had to suspend it for the coming of death. But he, like his predecessor, despite the preaching and the many ambassadors sent everywhere, had to deal with the shameful indifference of the european rulers against a new venture against infidels. Those rulers were solely committed to defending their interests, and did not consider the Turks threatening their own Western civilization. Charles VII of France long forbade the publication of the Crusade Bull issued in his kingdom on May 15, 1455, as well as forbidding the collecting of the tithes. The same thing happened in other countries. There were those who, like the Duke of Burgundy, collected them but put them in their pockets. In short, no one felt the urgency of a new holy war. Callisto continued to preach and prepare reconciliation with the spirit of a Spanish whose country had for centuries suffer the invasion of Muslims. He was building a fleet of sixteen triremes in Rome, on the Tiber. Ripa Grande became a real shipyard among the amazement of the population. And he, with tears in his eyes for emotion, looked away in the distance from the windows of his palace, the ships coming up from day to day. If Niccolò, his pale predecessor, had been a humanist among humanists, Callisto showed more interest in opposing Ottoman danger than in the diffusion of culture, so much to sell away a large number of precious volumes of the Vatican Library along with many objects of St. Peter's treasure to arm the fleet and drive out the infidels from Europe. Or he deprived those books of their gold-plated ornaments, causing the wrath of the curial letterati. He tore from an ancient, marble sarcophagus, discovered by accident near St. Peter's, all valuable objects, without worrying that the tomb probably contained the remains of Emperor Constantine and one of his sons. He melted the gold and silver found in the grave. From his canteen he banished the silverware saying, "I'm fine with terracotta dishes". The money was never enough, and then the pontiff, with a bull, imposed tithes and promised indulgences to anyone who had somehow helped the anti-Turks enterprise under the exhortation of talented preachers. Source: Antonio Spinosa - La saga dei Borgia

[divusborgia]

A Napoli Cesare si ferma per poco piú di un mese, nel corso del quale conduce un vita dissoluta. È in questo frangente, infatti, che pare contragga la sifilide destinata a sfigurare il suo bel volto con pustole e macchie rubizze. Pertanto molte delle azioni future di Cesare Borgia, almeno quelle piú efferate e violente, potrebbero essere dovute ai problemi psichici che la sifilide comporta, ma non ne abbiamo alcuna certezza. La malattia ha un decorso molto lento, possono passare anche 20 anni prima che dia problemi neuronali, Cesare al massimo la può avere avuta dal 1495 alla sua morte nel 1507. E comunque se ci dovessimo basare sul sospetto che la malattia porta a compiere gesti insani ed estremi, allora dovremmo immaginare che l’intera politica europea del ’500 sia inficiata dalla sifilide, dal momento che ne soffrono tutti i regnanti e il 75% dei nobili e del clero. Il contagio infatti è stato velocissimo e ha raggiunto tutte le corti europee nel giro di pochi mesi. Di certo i Borgia ne devono soffrire se papa Alessandro VI tra i suoi medici personali annovera uno specialista come lo spagnolo Gaspar Torella, autore del Tractatus cum consultis pudendagram, seu morbum gallicum (del 1497).

Cesare Borgia: Le campagne militari del cardinale che divenne Principe di Marco Santangelo