#Catherina Sforza

[earlgodwin]

"Not with a Borgia. I've had duplicity enough for a lifetime."

[frozenoverblackballoon]

Paintings by Shibamoto from the Trinity Blood Stories Untold book, that came out I believe in 2005. A year after Yoshida's passing. I translated these the best I could. Honestly, I don't think the last painting with Lilith is talking about Abel, I feel its Cain. Would make since. once upon a time Cain was a good man, who was loved by all and did his best to help the human race and protect his family and Lilith alike. Even if he held just as much resentment towards humanity as Abel. He chose to handle it a better way. I wouldn't be surprised if she was secretly in love with him. I don't ship it though. It fits with Yoshida's writing style. Many beautiful women in love with Abel, he's in love with a woman who secretly hates his guts and who is secretly in love with a man who can't love anymore. All of these are inspired off of events that might have happened if the series had kept going. Not moments of scenes that were to happen. Seth and Lilith's wings aren't canon. Since there not in the books. Just Shibamoto's ideas of what they might have wanted them to look like.

[merrymorningofmay]

this show really put two of the most beautiful women on earth (holliday grainger and gina mckee) into costumes that make about anyone look ethereal and i, a sapphic, have to look at it now

[stromuprisahat]

Rodrigo: ... Catherina Sforza, rides with [French]. Ascanio: She has the arms she needed and has retired at her castle at Forli. Cesare: And we forgive her such treachery? Rodrigo: Perhaps. For the moment.

[enionline]

“Per battaglia solamente de meza hora vincemmo la rocha, la Cittadella et l’altra terza parte chiamata el paradiso, cum occisione de circa quatrrocento de quelli de entro che difendendosi perirono, et pigliammo Madonna Catherina Sforza.���

Cesare Borgia a Ercole d’Este duca di Ferrara, 12 gennaio 1500, dal campo a Forlì.

Il 19 dicembre 1499, Cesare Borgia, noto come il Valentino, supportato dalle truppe di Luigi XII, Re di Francia, pose sotto assedio la Rocca di Ravaldino a Forlì. Dopo una settimana di incessanti bombardamenti giorno e notte, il Valentino riuscì a creare una breccia nella Rocca il 12 gennaio 1500, catturando Caterina Sforza insieme a ciò che rimaneva della sua corte. Questo fu l'episodio conclusivo della vita pubblica di Caterina Sforza. Da quel momento in poi, non poté più far ritorno alle signorie di Imola e Forlì. Papa Giulio II affidò questi territori alla famiglia Ordelaffi e Caterina dopo un breve periodo di prigionia trascorse il resto della sua vita a Firenze.

La resistenza solitaria di Caterina fu ammirata in tutta Italia, ispirando la composizione di numerose canzoni ed epigrammi in suo onore. Tra questi, il poeta Marsilio Compagnon che compose una canzone intitolata "Il lamento di Caterina Sforza Riario".

Ascolta questa sconsolata

Catherina da Forlivo

Ch'io ho gran guerra nel confino

Senza aiuto abbandonata

Io non veggo alcun signore

Che a cavallo monti armato

E poi mostri il suo vigore

Per difendere il mio stato

Tutto il mondo è spaventato

Quando senton criar Franza

E d'Italia la possanza

Par che sia profundata

'Scolta questa sconsolata

Catherina da Forlivo...

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[normalbrothers]

they got a super hyper competent mega assassin in catherina sforza's household that nobody ever heard of so far and his name is rufio (he's even worse than micheletton *gasp*). and yes that's incredible.

[ettellessa]

Cesare, Machiavelli and Micheletto are the Mean Girls of The Borgias and no one can talk me out of it

[metall-and-dust]

she's an icon she's a legend and she is the moment

[trinity-blood-translations]

The Sneaker LEGEND 30th Anniversary issue

and the Trinity Blood pages of it. It’s not much but more as nothing. Published on November 1, 2018 ....and shame on me posting this only by now.

[blackfoxland]

[buffaloborgine]

That’s not a big problem, is it? 

[frozenoverblackballoon]

Hear me out! I think there's truth to this.

[artist-botticelli]

Woman with attributes of Saint Catherine, so called Catherina Sforza Sandro Botticelli, 1475, Sandro Botticelli

[zalrb]

Maybe I’m evil for believing this but I know if Juan’s death scene had played out with Stefan as Cesare and Damon as Juan it would’ve been so hot. So cathartic too. I just know Paul could’ve played it so well with a lot of nuance.

Also it’s such a shame we didn’t get a last szn of the borgias. I would’ve liked to see cesare and lucrezia’s dynamic post-alfonso’s death (something i did NOT expect! When catherina sforza was defeated i was like “ok what now” and my jaw dropped when i realized how the show would end). I gotta thank you for introducing the borgias to me!

LOL if Stefan was like "We're Salvatores, we never forgive" and then staked Damon I'd lose it.

And I'm so glad you liked The Borgias ;) I was upset we didn't get season 4 of The Borgias but Neil came out with a script for the movie they were going to do and he basically turned Lucrezia into Ursula i.e. running away to a nunnery to escape Cesare who she's suddenly afraid of and is the cause of his death and I was like wow, I am SO glad we ended on season 3 when they just accept their love with the blood of her husband on her face. That's the perfect ending.

[ladyfenring]

like there are a lot of things i love about the borgias but gina mckee as catherina sforza...ma’am i am BEGGING you to top me

[weheartevilwomen]

I’m watching the Borgias right now and was shocked to find there are no posts of Catherina Sforza. I really like her character even though she’s wretched. I suppose you could call this a request 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oooh you know what I forgot about her! Let me start rewatching her eps so I can make some gifs of her!