“I sometimes think,” sang the Poet Omar, “that never blows so red the rose as where some buried Caesar bled.” Few, if any. roses bloomed in the church of Spain’s highland town of Viana where lethal ...

What inspired realpolitik bare-knuckler Niccolo Machiavelli to compose his 16th century masterwork, The Prince? The real question might not be what, but whom? Cesare Borgia stands as the best ...

Five hundred years after he was killed in battle, the remains of Cesare Borgia, the notorious inspiration for Machiavelli's The Prince, are to be moved into a Spanish church. Banned from holy ground ...

In the summer of 1502, the youthful Cesare Borgia was on his third rampage through the Romagna region of northern Italy, brutally seizing city after city in the name of his father, Pope Alexander VI, ...

“It’s like ‘The Borgias’ meets ‘Game of Thrones’ meets ‘Dawson’s Creek.'” That’s how Francois Arnaud, who plays Cesare Borgia in Showtime’s “The Borgias,” described the Season 2 finale airing at 9 p.m ...

Stax here with a review of the screenplay for Borgia! This 128-page revised third draft dated June 2001 is by writer-director Neil Jordan (Interview With The Vampire), although Laeta Kalogridis has ...

In “The Borgias,” Francois Arnaud says, his character is finally “the Cesare Borgia he was meant to be, he always wanted to be.” He’s also the Cesare Borgia that Arnaud always expected to play–“a ...

Since Francois Arnaud and David Oakes have both been so fantastic during The Borgias second season, it’s a shame that the series has had such a difficult time showcasing them in the same episode. “The ...