#micheletto

[the-borgias]

Have you heard of a man named Seneca? A little. Did he write about a pool of lampreys? Vedius Pollio, friend of Augustus, stocked a pool by his villa in Naples.

THE BORGIAS | 3.05 “The Wolf and the Lamb”

[folktail]

finally finishing the borgias and he’s my favourite. nobody is ever doing it like him

[noarm-noharm]

your face when you talked very nicely with your friend’s mom and now you’re teasing him with your jokes 😊 but you don’t know yet that this friend killed his dad 💀

little piece of my artwork that made me laugh with those silly faces 🥺🤲🏻

[seamonstera]

Niccolo: Why would you think any of this was a good idea?! Cesare: Probably because I’m a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violence. Niccolo: Oh... Micheletto, from across the room: I don’t understand how you keep forgetting that

[micheletto-de-corella]

It’s pretty cool they got Isolda Dychauk to pose for Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1598-1599).

We ❤️‍🔥 angry, dangerous women

[mustangterracesandredwine]

What did they tell King Ferdinand of Naples about who Micheletto really was? Was he supposed to be Lucrezia's harmless chaperone? Because nobody seems worried about him. Alphonso should know who he is. Is he too scared to tell anybody? Did they not believe him?

I'm just trying to gauge the tone being set when Ferdinand starts talking about his pool of eels. Because he's either trying to frighten some random guy with his dubiously fun facts, or he's openly getting into a pissing contest with an assassin and spy about who is scarier.

Or even worse, he's telling the right hand man of Cesare Borgia, who he knows hates his guts "hey, here's a really convenient way to make my death look like an accident."

Is he an idiot? Does he think he's so untouchable that no one will hurt him? Is he not the chip off Ferrante's old block that he pretends to be? Is he going for some renaissance bro code moment where he thinks Micheletto agrees with him because only idiots care about what women want? Does he think there's no loyalty to Cesare and Micheletto's just in it for the work?

I love the show, but one of my few critiques is that we never get a good feeling for whether people know about Micheletto and how he serves Cesare, which leaves some loose ends. Historically, Micheletto was a well known figure and if people died suspiciously while he was around, fingers were being pointed. Obviously in that era people wouldn't have recognized him on sight, but if he's living at the court of Naples someone probably asked 'who is that guy?' at some point.

The way I choose to see it is as an extension of the theme of people underestimating the Borgia family, which runs throughout the show. Micheletto is kind of an extension/enabler of them crossing lines no one believes they will cross and outsmarting those who consider themselves masters of the game.

I guess Ferdinand falls into the same trap as Giovanni Sforza, Savonarola, the Cardinals, Della Rovere, etc. He thinks he's better, he thinks he's smarter, he thinks he's more vicious and he's wrong.

Anyway, I would have kept the thing about the man eating eels to myself.

[caprici0us-fool]

Do u think Cesare's ever called Micheletto holy father in bed or

[rivkat]

The Borgias

OK, I'm weak, I started watching for HR reasons, but I had assumed from various gifs that Lucrezia/Cesare was the key relationship. I did not know about Cesare/assassin, the most "yes, they just did that" homoeroticism I've seen in a while.