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Wild and Wicked

February 27, 2025 by Lesley Truffle

  Wild and Wicked   Famous women are frequently sensationalized to provide historical fodder for films, plays, operas and books. Facts are wilfully ignored because wickedness, orgies, incest, violence, psychological abuse and criminal activity will always find an audience. Cleopatra was frequently represented as an objectified woman. Everyone from Cicero to Shakespeare used her to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Film, films, Historical, history, Mavericks & Renegades, movies, Social Comment Tagged: Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, Cesare Borgia, Cleopatra, Cleopatra V11, Eygyptian, femme fatale, Italian History, Italy, Lucrece Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Pope Alexander V1, The Borgia Family, Victor Hugo

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