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Welcome to my blog in English. It is a literary experiment inspired by Pirandello's "Novelle per un anno". It is just a series of questions on twelve topics or so.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

1. Did Lucrezia Borgia ever eat her lovers ?

Poor Lucrezia was the remote daughter of Pope Alessandro VI and the sister of the famous Cesare Borgia as you may know. She was a lady of the Italian Renaissance, born in 1480, married several times with husbands her dear Papa chose for her or killed for god’s sake. She poisoned quite a few of her lovers, since it was said that a simple caress of her was able to kill the unfortunate bloke. Her ring was her weapon, how she used it no one knows. Yet she was a patron of the arts once she was married to the duca d’Este and a much admired duchess.
She was considered by many as a sort of marvel, a black widow (the spider) made woman. As black widows tend to devour their lovers, I am wondering if she was ever tempted to eat a lover or two since orgies were a natural pass time during her lifetime. Unfortunately we do not have evidence of that. We do not even know how Lucrezia looked like since the portrait of Bartolomeo Veneziano pictured here might be a pure fantasy.
Was she able to resist the temptation of biting in the crunchy buttock of one of those elegant young men who orbitated around her ? I believe not. If I were her I would not have hesitated a second and I am sad to say that nowadays the beef-like lovers one has to cope with are nothing but buttockless men most of the time, halas!

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