Los Borgia | Antonio Hernández | 2006

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[GreatGrumbledook]

...would have been abolished.

What happened? A German monk, Luther, came to Rome. This monk, with all the vengeful instincts of a shipwrecked priest in his system, was outraged in Rome—against the Renaissance. Instead of understanding, with the most profound gratitude, the tremendous event that had happened here, the overcoming of Christianity in its very seat, his hatred understood only how to derive its own nourishment from this spectacle. A religious person thinks only of himself."

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... it seems to me that it glistens in all the tremors of subtle beauty, that an art is at work in it, so divine, so devilishly divine that one searches millennia in vain for a second such possibility; I envisage a spectacle so ingenious, so wonderfully paradoxical at the same time, that all the deities on Olympus would have had occasion for immortal laughter: Cesare Borgia as pope. Am I understood? Well then, that would have been the victory which alone I crave today: with that, Christianity...

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... Renaissance—my question is its question—nor has there ever been a more fundamental, a straighter form of attack in which the whole front was led more strictly against the center. Attacking in the decisive place, in the very seat of Christianity, placing the noble values on the throne here, I mean, bringing them right into the instincts, into the lowest needs and desires of those who sat there!

I envisage a possibility of a perfectly supraterrestrial magic and fascination of color: ...

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Luther by the way is a good cue to invoke some fancy Nietzsche quote about the true meaning of the (Italian) renaissance:

"Does one understand at last, does one want to understand, what the Renaissance was? The revaluation of Christian values, the attempt, undertaken with every means, with every instinct, with all genius, to bring the countervalues, the noble values to victory.

So far there has been only this one great war, so far there has been no more decisive question than that of the...

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If I am not mistaken it is based on a Spanish chronicle of House Borgia; which does deny the most vicious slander about the family: Like the incest allegation about Lucrezia, that Cesare might have murdered his own brother and so; and I must admit: If the Catholic clergy would still enjoy a family life like Pope Alexander did the recent child abuse scandals would occur less; and this without abolishing the celibacy! I muse why Luther was so upset about all this that he created Protestantism!

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I cannot deny it: Spain has become my save heaven for movies in the recent times; as I was most positively surprised by the fancy Spanish movie on the most illustrious Borgia family: With their mastermind Pope Alexander VI, the brave but ruthless Cesare, the unhappy Lucrezia (who is trapped in the intrigues and the lust for power of her father and brother), also many of my favourite renaissance heroes: Niccolò Machiavelli, Countess Caterina Sforza and Pope Julius II!