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Showtime is planning a series on the Borgia family from the days of the Italian Renaissance. This is around my period of study, so it sounds interesting. However, check out the bit from a press release:
THE BORGIAS will be a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history?s? most intriguing and infamous dynastic families. The series begins as the family?s patriarch Rodrigo (Jeremy Irons), becomes Pope, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance. And all that power and influence eventually leads to their demise. As Machiavelli once said about his friends, the Borgias, "Politics have no relation to morals."
http://www.sho.com/site/announcements/view.do?articleid=941Of course Lucretia Borgia would be "scandalously beautiful". I didn't see any of the episodes of The Tudors, though I probably should sometime. However, I wonder how much wincing I would do if I were to watch some of these kinds of Hollywood histories.
