Cesare Borgia Autobiography
I can’t believe they have done this to me. Stripped me of my armor, of my clothes, but most importantly, my dignity. And worst of all, they didn’t even kill me: they left me here to die. Lying here, after being stabbed by a spear, and receiving 25 wounds. Such a disheartening way to die. To have time, to think about your life. And it all started on September 13, 1475 in Florence, Italy.
I was born a bastard, but that never stopped me from being the best in town. My one goal in life, from day one, was to be more powerful than anyone. I created competition in every situation, and I always won. My brothers and I did not have the best relationship, although my tutors, Paulo Pompilio and Giovanni Vera, recognized my
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And that is where I met Gonzalo de Córdoba, the man who rejected my offer to join me in a league against the Pope. And like the Pope, he arrested me as well, and brought me to Spain to be imprisoned. Although I may not have been able to talk my way out this time, I am so smart and brilliant that I managed to escape (1506). I met with my brother in law, King of Navarre, in Spain, where I led an army of 5,000 against some of his rebels. They somehow managed to ambush us. They stripped me of my armor, clothes, and my dignity. They didn’t kill me but rather left me here to die. Stabbing me with a spear, leaving me to lay here. And giving me time to think about my life.
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It is the 1450s. Foreigners have invaded your land, and they’re capturing the citizens living there for their lethal rituals. (Doc. A) You are unlucky enough to find yourself kidnapped, along with your family. Your mother is taken away quickly, but your father is forced to become a human sacrifice for the Aztec gods. What does this mean, exactly? According to The History of the Indies of New Spain by Friar Diego Duran, your father’s chest is severed, and his heart is taken out of his body. This is all while he is still awake, and before the time of pain medication. He slowly bleeds to death on the temple stairways - and you’re watching it all. This sounds terrible, does it not?
There are a number of differences between Bernardo Bertolucci's movie "The Spider Stratagem" and the story on which it is based, Jorge Louis Borges' "The Theme of The Traitor and The Hero;" however, overall Bertolucci does a pretty accurate portrayal of the essence, at least, of Borges' story. Besides changing the "setting" of the plot, there is also much more information relayed in the movie. This is very much due to that the story is simply a suggestive piece, while the movie had to fill in all of the blanks. In the movie, Bertolucci had to add characters, motivations, and many vast details that are left out of the story.
In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli considers Cesare Borgia to be perfect example for princes or whomever, to follow if they wish to apprehend how to secure and strengthen their principalities. Cesare Borgia, for Machiavelli, is an ideal lesson of a prince who had great prowess, gained his principality through good fortune by his father Pope Alexander VI, showed continuous actions by his efforts to secure his state quickly, and then lost it to adverse fortune, which led to his fall and death. Machiavelli uses many events of Cesare Borgia’s to show how and why he was successful, and should me imitated as a model of prudence by ambitious princes.
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