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Sep 8, 2023 · The Borgias (2011–2013) Is a Showtime television series depicting the rise to power of the notorious Borgia family in Rome during the late 15th century. With Rodrigo Borgia, a.k.a Pope Alexander VI (Jeremy Irons) having taken the seat of St. Peter by dubious means, it is up to his illegitimate children Cesare (Francois Arnaud) Juan (David Oakes) and Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger) to help him ...
- The Early Years of Cesare Borgia
- The Adult Life of Cesare Borgia
- Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci
- Machiavellianism and The Dark Triad of Personality
- Cesare Borgia
He was the illegitimate son of a cardinal of Valencia, Rodrigo Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI. He reached his position through nepotism and corruption. Cesare Borgia’s childhood was a constant lesson of intrigue, manipulation, alliances, and conspiracies. Some of his biographers relate the machinations his father did to ensure his childr...
Eventually and shortly after his brother’s death, he gathered an army of mercenaries. Leonardo da Vinci served there as an engineer. Cesare and his army advanced through the Italian states, increasing his power and extending his father’s domain. Their goal was to unify Italy under the command of the Borgia family. His strategies either involved his...
A big part of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavellitakes after Cesare Borgia. In this work, Machiavelli idealizes him and uses him as an example as the ideal exercise of politics. An exercise that, according to Machiavelli, doesn’t have to respond to morality but only to the laws of power. It seems that Cesare Borgia wasn’t the exclusive model of Machi...
Machiavellianism in psychology refers to a personality trait. It defines people who use others as a means to achieve their own ends. They have no problem manipulating and exploiting others at will to do so. Thus, the Machiavellian personality is manipulative and strategic and differs from narcissists or psychopaths in that it’s more withdrawn and c...
People often use the terms narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism interchangeably because they have similar characteristics. The three personality types comprise the dark triad, a psychological concept that encompasses a set of shared traits such as self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and selfishness. A good way to understand Machiavellianis...
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St. Francis Borgia, SJ (1510–1572) By Bert Ghezzi. From Voices of the Saints. St. Francis Borgia, a relative of Pope Alexander VI, King Ferdinand of Aragon, and Emperor Charles V, joined Spain’s imperial court at age eighteen. The next year he married Eleanor de Castro, who bore him eight children. In 1539, shortly after experiencing a ...
Sep 30, 2016 · The great-grandson of the infamous Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI), Francis was born on 28 October 1510, the first son and heir of Juan de Borgia, third duke of Gandía and grandee of Spain. Raised in palaces among the elites, he later served at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V from 1528. There he met and married Leonor de Castro, a ...
May 1, 2013 · Directed by Christoph Schrewe. With John Doman, Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Marek Adamczyk. Cesare celebrates his victory in Milan by summoning Leonardo da Vinci, whom he wishes to employ as a designer of innovative new war machines.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Christoph Schrewe
- 2013-05-01
Rodrigo Borgia: [Watching a falcon attack a pigeon] Tou must get me a battalion of those birds. Micheletto: [after killing two men who threaten Ursula] Forgive me, sister. Sometimes goodness needs the help of a little badness. Cesare Borgia: Give me joy of my marriage, Father. I am an honest man at last.
Aug 30, 2019 · In fact, Borgia was the inspiration for Machiavelli’s The Prince, the novel famous for the popularizing the mentality, “The ends justify the means.” This is certainly a far stretch from Jesus’s message of love, forgiveness, and turning the other cheek.
