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Apr 23, 2011

It Takes Dos Testiculos To Rule The Known World: A Brief Comment On "The Borgias"


by Cliopatria


One of the show's signature moments, used in all the ads, has Rodrigo staring into the camera (this is early in the first episode, right after Cardinal Borgia has given Cesare his marching orders for how to buy the papacy) and murmuring intensely:  "I will not forgive failure!"  This sums it up:  what responsible father of successful children would forgive failure?

Cross posted at Tenured Radical.


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jjarrett - 4/26/2011

"I know:  scholars who really know this field are going to ask me why I would go to a website called Papal Trivia:  Fun Facts About the Popes for my information."


Well, yes, I mean you could have gone to Snopes: http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/94/t/000921/p/1.html The ceremony is probably realler than Pope Joan, and a chair has been exhibited that is supposed to have been used for it, but it may be more to do with a eunuch Patriarch of Constantinople than a woman pope, sad to say.