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  Lucrezia Borgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucrezia's family later came to epitomise the ruthless Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy.
Lucrezia was married to Giovanni Sforza (Lord of Pesaro), Alfonso V of Aragon (Duke of Bisceglie), and Alphonso d'Este (Prince of Ferrara).
Giovanni refused and accused Lucrezia of paternal and fraternal incest.
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 Lucrezia Borgia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lucrezia's family later came to epitomise the ruthless (additional info and facts about Machiavellian) Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy.
Lucrezia was married to Giovanni Sforza (Ruler of Milan), (additional info and facts about Alfonso V of Aragon) Alfonso V of Aragon (Duke of Bisceglie), and Alphonso d'Este (Prince of (additional info and facts about Ferrara) Ferrara).
Lucrezia was informed of this by her brother (additional info and facts about Cesare) Cesare, and she warned her husband who then fled (Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire) Rome.
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 Lucrezia Borgia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Lucrezia Borgia (or "Lucrecia Borgia") (April 14 or April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Spaniard who would later become Pope Alexander VI.
Lucrezia was married to Giovanni Sforza (Ruler of Milan), Alfonso V of Aragon (Duke of Bisceglie), and Alphonso d'Este (Prince of Ferrara).
The child was born in secret before Lucrezia's marriage to the 17-year-old Alfonso V of Aragon.
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 Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia (English: Caesar Borgia) (1476 - March 12, 1507), Duke of Valencia, was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and brother to Lucrezia Borgia.
Initially, he followed his father into a Church career and was elevated by his father to the rank of Cardinal by the age of 22.
Some scholars, however, have argued that Machiavelli's praise for Borgia was a parody, to cover up the actual anti-hero of the work, Ferdinand II of Aragon.
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 Lucrezia Borgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lucrezia Borgia (or "Lucrecia Borgia") (April14 or April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Spaniard who would later become PopeAlexander VI.
Her brother was the notorious despot Cesare Borgia.Lucrezia's family later came to epitomise the ruthless Machiavillian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy.
Giovanni refused andaccused Lucrezia of paternal and fraternal incest.
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 Encyclopedia: Lucrezia-Borgia
Alexander VI, (Rodrigo Borgia) (January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503) pope (1492-1503), is the most memorable of the secular popes of the Renaissance.
Lucrezia Borgia is an Italian opera by Gaetano Donizetti.
Haid as Lucrezia Borgia Liane Haid (August 16, 1895 – November 28, 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austrias first movie star.
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 Cesare Borgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cesare Borgia (September, 1475 - March 12, 1507), Duke of Valentinois, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) and Vannozza dei Cattani.
Cesare Borgia was greatly admired by Niccolò Machiavelli, who knew him personally.
It has been suggested that some pictures of Jesus Christ produced around Borgia's lifetime were based on Cesare Borgia, and that this in turn has influenced images of Jesus produced since that time.
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 Lucrezia Borgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lucrezia's family later came to epitomise the ruthless Machiavillian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy.
Or perhaps the Pope have never made such an order, and it was a plot on the part of Cesare and Lucrezia to drive her boring husband away.
After Lucrezia's marriage to Alfonso, Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, wanted to arrange a third marriage, and it is said Cesare had his servant(s) strangle Alfonso while he recovered from an attack by possible assassins.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/lucrezia_borgia   (966 words)

  
 Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia / Bonynge, Sutherland, Kraus, Royal Opera DVD Review
This might not be the definite Lucrezia (a slight nod would go to Montserrat Caballe's 1965 RCA audio recording), but Sutherland shows she has the sheer chops to overcome Donizetti's piling on of difficulty after vocal difficulty.
It is especially seen in the scene of the meeting between Lucrezia as the unknown mother and Gennaro as the lost son, so sad and touching that tears come to your eyes.
Lucrezia is a mature, colourful woman and Sutherland gives one of the best performances of her career on this DVD.
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 Encyclopedia: Liane Haid
Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia (or Lucrecia Borgia) (April 14 or April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Spaniard who would later become Pope Alexander VI.
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator.
Her notable films include Lady Hamilton (1921; her breakthrough role); Lucrezia Borgia (1926); Die Csardasfürstin (1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus (The Song Is Ended) (1930) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn (1936).
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 Cesare Borgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Exiled to Spain, in 1504, he escapedfrom a Spanish prison two years later and joined his brother-in-law, King Jean d'Albret of Navarre.Serving Navarre as a soldier, he died at the siege of Viana in 1507, at the age ofthirty-one.
Cesare Borgia was greatly admired by Niccolo Machiavelli,who knew him personally.
A few scholars, however, have argued that Machiavelli's praise for Borgia was a parody, tocover up the actual anti-hero of the work, Ferdinand II ofAragon.
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 Amazon.ca: Video: Lucrezia Borgia [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Joan Sutherland sings an Oscar worthy Lucrezia on this DVD live performance, eventhough she had sung the role at a time earlier in her career when her voice was in superior shape.
The Renaissance matriarch, Lucrezia Borgia, who was demonized by many historic accounts of her cruelty and by her ambitious genes (she was the sister of Cesare Borgia after all, Cesare Borgia being the inspiration for Machiavelli's "The Prince").
Lucrezia's fiery and dark nature is vividly portrayed by Joan Sutherland here, while at the same time showcasing her lyric-coloratura assets (check out the Brindisi and the finale aria).
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 Liane Haid
Liane Haid (August 16, 1895 - November 28, 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.
Haid as Lucrezia Borgia and Conrad Veidt[?] as Cesare Borgia (1926)
Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel ("Sweet Viennese Girl") and a popular pinup[?] throughout the 1920s and 30s.
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 Portrait of the actor Conrad Veidt by Thomas Staedeli
His absolute most popular movie and with it his most impressive part he had in "Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari" (1919), which went down in history as one of the great cult movies in the German silent movie era.
This movie from director Paul Leni (1885-1929) was the last one on the style of Caligari.
His last movie in England was "The Thief of Baghdad" (with Sabu in the leading role) and celebrated a further worldwide success.
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 Metropolis (1926) - German film history by Thomas Staedeli
In the early days of the silent movie you could tell by their appearance that their roots came from the theater where a overdrew character could be appropriate, in the film business it looked strange.
He only appeared rarely in movies, among other in the notorious propaganda movie "Jud Süss" (40), besides it he devoted often to the theater where he was engaged at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart from 1945 till to his death.
In 1919 her first script for a movie was written for the director Joe May. During preparations for the film "Das indische Grabmal" she met director Fritz Lang.
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 Review | January Goes to the Movies
As you can imagine, finding books about movies to review is about as difficult as finding a video store: throw a rock and you'll hit one.
I can't, for instance, imagine needing to know that Brooke Shields, Christopher Lee and Glenn Close are all descendants of Lucrezia Borgia; or that Boris Karloff was related to Anna Harriet Crawford, the woman who put the "I" in The King and I. But it's entertaining stuff, anyway.
Camera work and passion are the real stars of The Last Remaining Seats: Movie Palaces of Tinseltown, a beautiful and intimate look at the palatial movie palaces erected in the Los Angeles area at the height of Hollywood's golden age.
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 New York State Writers Institute - Don Juan Film Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Warner brothers set out to make sound so newsworthy and so irresistible to movie patrons that theater owners would have to add the expensive technology.
DON JUAN was allegedly based on the long poem by Lord Byron, whose name on the screen gave the evening its last great imprimatur of importance.
The sound that accompanied segments of the film was recorded on disc by the New York Philharmonic, and the film’s action scenes were as fluid and suspenseful as anything the movies had seen.
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 Abrreviated View of Movie Page
In the prolog, Don José, warned of his wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle; abandoned to his lust, he is stabbed by his last mistress, and with his dying words he implores his son, Juan, to take all from women but yield nothing.
Don Juan intervenes and thwarts the scheme, winning the love of Adriana, but the Borgia declare war on the duke's kinsmen, offering them safety if Adriana marries Donati; Don Juan is summoned to the wedding, but he prefers death to marriage with Lucretia.
He escapes and kills Donati in a duel; the lovers are led to the death-tower, but while Adriana pretends suicide, he escapes; and following a series of battles, he defeats his pursuers and is united with Adriana.
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 Cesare Borgia : Caeser borgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Some scholars, however, have argued that Machiavelli's praise for Borgia was a parody, to cover up the actual anti-hero of the work, II of Aragon">Ferdinand II of Aragon.
It was as though the one gladsome winter of pleasant companionship and Lorraine and Hermon - before the wider issues of the future stepped in.
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 Films/DVD Asylum - Abel Gance and his Lucrezia Borgia - Victor Khomenko, April 20, 2004 at 06:42:45   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I was able to locate two: the 1935 Lucrezia Borgia and 1936 Beethoven.
The movie is cursory at best in its introduction to the history of the period, so unless you are reasonably familiar with it much will be lost on you.
One could say this is an abbreviated chronicle of the Borgia house history...
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 Films/DVD Asylum
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 Don Juan (1926)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Yes, this was the first movie made with a synchronised music score (and some sound effects), but it is much more that that!
I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
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 A Catalog -- Media Resource Library
Germany, 1926: a Jewish manufacturer is accused of murder, and prosecutors and the public ignore the truth in favor of Nazi antisemitic ideals.
A profile of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, from her early life as a sharecropper's child to her present life of writing.
A timid movie projectionist imagines himself a great detective but his girl solves the mystery.
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 Classic Horror Movie Players O   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Don Q, Son of Zorro (as The Archduke Paul, Prince of Austria) The Winding Stair.
Riders of the Purple Sage 1926 Tell it To the Marines (as Bandit leader).
Das Haus In der Dragonergasse (dir only) 1922 Lucrezia Borgia 1923 Carlos Und Elisabeth 1925 Lumpen und Seide (dir only).
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 Timeline Murders
1480 Apr 18, Lucretia Borgia (d.1519), murderess, was born.
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, was the daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and the sister and political pawn of Cesare Borgia.
1926 Oct 11, Walter Swanson, Michael Petrovich and John Duane were murdered.
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 Classic Horror Movie Players F   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Der Roman der Christine von Herre 1922 Marizza, Genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna.
Lucrezia Borgia 1923 Die Austreibung 1924 Die Finnanzen des Gross Herzogs.
1926 Madam Wanscht Keine Kinder (prod-sup.) 1927 Berlin-die Symphonie Einer Gross Stadt (co-prod and co-sc).
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 Movie Usenet - Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Movie Usenet - Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
1926, all of which have a movie-craze touch to them, most notably My Stars,
unprojectable (such as The Movies) look quite fine indeed.
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 dOc DVD Review: The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (1913-1932)
Johnny Arthur, Lloyd Hamilton and Lupino Lane star in three shorts from 1925 and 1926, all of which have a movie-craze touch to them, most notably My Stars, in which Arthur must adopt the personae of various screen actors that his girl idolizes.
In particular, the restored films that are described in the accompanying booklet as unprojectable (such as The Movies) look quite fine indeed.
The Keystone films, which were printed and run to death, are in much better shape than one usually sees; many are apparently from the Library of Congress paper prints and these look very nice.
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 Estelle Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A former typist, Taylor married a banker at age 14 and after leaving him...
Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996) (TV)....
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