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1 day ago · The 2008/09 season resulted in Fleming singing Desdemona and Thais at the Metropolitan Opera, the Countess in Capriccio at the Vienna State Opera, Tatyana at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and Lucrezia Borgia at the Washington National Opera. In 2009, Fleming premiered the complete version of Le temps l'horloge by Henri Dutilleux.
23 hours ago · The accusations of witchcraft and poison stuck fast to many powerful women in medieval and Renaissance Europe, including Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de' Medici. Further reading: Clare Ridgeway on medieval and Tudor poisons.
2 days ago · The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, which was suppressed for political reasons in the second and later issues, and with the uncommonly found errata leaf. The second issue lacks the dedication and the errata leaf.
2 days ago · [1] - so Lucrezia's first husband Giovanni, Lord of Pesaro died in battle at Parma. Since he was a Sforza, he was fighting on the side of his distant cousin Ludovico Sforza. [2] - this is a switch on OTL history, since Charles II died this way in 1496 IOTL.
5 days ago · The patriarch of the family, Rodrigo Borgia, gets his two sons married to the daughters of rival families and works his way up the ranks to become Pope through extortion and torture. Oh yeah, and there's a bunch of steamy sex scenes.
1 day ago · Victor-Marie Hugo was born on 26 February 1802 in Besançon in Eastern France. He was the youngest son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1774–1828), a general in the Napoleonic army, and Sophie Trébuchet (1772–1821). The couple had two other sons: Abel Joseph (1798–1855) and Eugène (1800–1837).
3 days ago · Her family arranged several marriages for her that advanced their own political position including Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro and Gradara, Count of Cotignola; Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno; and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
