It's the Borgias' fault.
I haven't written for a few days. Blame it on The Borgias. It's one of those things I thought everyone had in their cultural vocabulary: one of the very most uppity women the world has known: Lucrezia Borgia, famed for all kinds of infamy including poisoning multiple husbands, mostly her own; incestuous affairs with her brother Cesare, and her father, Pope Alexander... Well, yes, the entire family was pretty dreadful. I was going to say, unconventional, but the conventions of Renaissance Italy... Sign in to see full entry.