#she even commissioned a portrait of cesare about to backstab an oblivious praying jesus-looking juan
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cesare is never beating the widowmaker allegations
#lucrezia and juan's wife parallels save me ???#while we don't exactly know if it's historically true but i chuckle at how showtime's version portrayed him like this#juan's wife would've added so much juice to the show considering how real maria accused cesare of killing her husband aka his brother#she even commissioned a portrait of cesare about to backstab an oblivious praying jesus-looking juan#while neil jordan had lucrezia flee from rome to a nunnery to escape her father and brother's vicious web of ambitions...#historically rodrigo exiled her to naples against her will because apparently her “bitter” weeping over her husband had “embarrassed him”#and he only kept cesare around him...misogyny :/#the borgias#cesare borgia#juan borgia#maria enriquez de luna#lucrezia borgia#lucretia borgia according to original documents and correspondence of her day#ferdinand gregorovius#historical drama#historical fiction#history#borgia#borgias#tb text post
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