The Pope's Daughter

Dario Fo

Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
3.25 · 12 ratings · Published: 01 Apr 2014
The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history The daughter of a notorious pope she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married-one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezias own brother Cesar Borgia She is cast in the role of murderess temptress incestuous lover loose woman femme fatale par excellence But there is always more than one version of a story Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to serve as the head of the Catholic Church She successfully administered several of the Renaissance Italys most thriving cities founded one of the worlds first credit unions and was a generous patron of the arts She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo She was a child of the renaissance and in many ways the worlds first modern woman Dario Fo Nobel laureate and one of Italys most beloved writers reveals Lucrezias humanity her passion for life her compassion for others and her skill at navigating around her familys evildoings The Borgias are unrivalled for the range and magnitude of their political machinations and opportunism Fos brilliance rests in his rendering their story as a shocking mirror image of the uses and abuses of power in our own time Lucrezia herself becomes a model for how to survive and rise above those abuses
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