#Mario Da Vinci

[giallofever2]

Napoli una storia d'amore e di vendetta

Data di uscita: 1979

Regista: Mario Bianchi

Sceneggiatura: Alberto Sciotti

Casa di produzione: M. D. V. Film

[perfettamentechic]

10 maggio … ricordiamo …

10 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: María Duval, nome d’arte di María Mogilesky, attrice argentina. Vinse un concorso di lettura indetto dal Teatro Municipale. Successivamente, lasciò la sua città natale e si recò a Buenos Aires per partecipare a un concorso al fine di far parte del cast di Canción de cuna. Nel 1942 girò sei film. Inoltre, lavorò nel 1944 anche nel teatro. Alla fine del 1947 diventò una delle attrici più…

[azucarera-art]

My fave AssCreed characters as pics from my phone:

Altaïr:

Maria:

Malik:

Ezio:

Mario:

Leonardo:

Shaun:

Rebecca:

Desmond:

Layla:

[stilouniverse]

Mario Taddei "Come diventare Leonardo da Vinci", presentazione

Mario Taddei “Come diventare Leonardo da Vinci”, presentazione

“Da oltre 30 anni studio Leonardo da Vinci. Ho realizzato mostre in tutto il mondo, costruito centinaia di macchine e ho creato software multimediali, libri e ricerche per far conoscere il più grande genio e artista di tutti i tempo al grande pubblico”. 340 pagine, tutte illustrate e bilingui, italiano e inglese a fronte Su Amazon a questo link per acquistare o consultare l’Indice I veri…

[nuctoria]

Super Mermaid Bros (Part 2)

The brothers walked all the way to the underground pipe system of Brooklyn and kept watch for one another as they packed up their overalls, socks and boots before jumping in the water, letting their tails reconnect before swimming back home. The brothers were a pretty bumped at how their first day on the job went but Mario was quick to cheer himself and Luigi up, claiming it was just one time and that he was certain that things would get better from here on out.

Once they made it home, they hang their caps and took off their gloves. Their family paused their chatter when they heard the front door open and close and turned to them, all greeting the twins with a synchronized "Heyo!", the brothers responding in the same way as they sat in their respective seats at the dinner table, Mario next to his dad and Luigi next to his uncle, Tony. The family all together consisted of 9 merfolks; the brothers, their parents, Mia and Pio, their two uncles, Arthur and Tony, their aunt Marie, Arthur's wife, their grandfather and Marilyn, their cousin (I can't see her as the niece, she literally has Arthur's hair and she's sitting next to them like she's their daughter. Sorry folks).

"It's the 'Super Mario Brother'! From the TV!" uncle Tony exclaimed teasingly, laughing along with the grandfather across the table as the twins' mom gave him an annoyed side-glance. "They gave an Oscar for worse actors?" their other, Arthur, joined in the teasing only for his wife, Marie, to set him straight with a slap at the back of his head, confusing him.

The brothers didn't take them seriously or minded the teasing, Mario being happy that they all saw their commercial and asking for feedback, which only gave their uncles the opportunity for another round of teasing and laughing. Their mom however claimed it was amazing and should be in the cinema like Luigi had said back at the pizzeria. The brothers really appreciated the comment and gave their mom soft, grateful smiles.

That smile was gone from Mario's face when his dad placed a big scoop of spaghetti on Mario's plate with plenty of mushrooms in it. He always hated mushrooms, being the only one in the family that did. He took his fork and picked out all mushroom pieces from his plate, dropping them in Luigi's plate, as Tony started another conversation with him.

"Mario, seriously, what were you thinking with that commercial?" Tony asked a bit more seriously. "What? It's supposed to be funny" Mario responded, not even looking up from his plate while Luigi asked for the bread, getting ignored. "Yeah, but what's with the outfits? Plumbers wearing white gloves?" Tony asked again, getting a chuckle from Arthur. "That's right, we gotta have a trademark. Gotta stand out." Mario defended. "Don't listen to them, boys. The world laughed at Da Vinci too back then" their mom encouraged her sons as she passed a bowl of soup to Luigi.

Then Mario asked for his dad's opinion since he hadn't said a word this whole time and hoped he had a different opinion than his uncles. However, their dad admitted that he thought Mario was nuts to leave a steady job and blow their life savings on a commercial for a silly dream business. He didn't mean to wound Mario, he only wanted to give honest criticism since he's very experienced in the world-field, but the discussion was immediately over when he brought how Mario was dragging Luigi down with him.

Mario frowned, drained and hurt by what his dad said, and left the dinner table, swimming to his and Luigi's room. Everyone was shocked at what he had said and gave him looks of disbelief. Mia was the first to speak up about what Pio had just said, scolding him for being so harsh. Pio didn't think he didn't anything wrong, however, which prompted his own brothers to join in and said that he shouldn't have brought Luigi in the conversation since he knew how close the two were.

Luigi didn't engage in this argument, taking Mario's plate and working through it to take out all the remaining mushrooms from it. He put himself a plate as well after being done with Mario's and took both plates to his and Mario's shared room, where he found his brother staring at the screen of their TV with a solemn face.

"Hey." Luigi greeted his brother softly, swimming over to sit next to Mario, the NEWS channel on the TV barely audible. "You're not brining me down, big bro. You know what? What do they know!" Luigi tried to cheer up Mario but the older twin shook his head, rejecting the plate Luigi brought him. "It's not just them, Lu. Everyone has been telling us that we can't do this or that since we were fries. I'm just so tired of feeling like such a small fish..." Mario sighed.

But that changed when he finally paid attention at the TV to see that there was water main break that was flooding Brooklyn. At this, Mario's face lit up and he hurried up from his bed. "Luigi, this is our chance! Destiny is calling!" "Destiny Delvachio from school?" Luigi asked, thinking his brother was talking about their old classmate. "No that one! This is our chance to prove that we can still be plumbers! Come on!" Mario took ahold on Luigi's hand and dragged him out of their room and out of the house.

The two mermen swam all the water to the underground water system of Brooklyn, where the water break was taking place. Since they came here daily, they knew it like the back of their hands. Luckily for them, the place had flooded enough for the break to be underwater and they could work on it much easier since they wouldn't have to be extra cautious to keep their tails split.

Luigi decided to keep hold of their tools and let Mario do the plumbing for now, looking around with an nervous look on his face. He didn't really like how much darker it was here at night. The pipe Mario was working on started shaking violently as he tried to hold it still. Luigi swam over and tried to help keep it steady but it ended up bursting and swinging the brother to a break wall with such force that it broke on impact and sent the mermen to the room on the other side.

After the two had sat up, they looked around them and were shocked to see what they ended up finding by accident. The place was like a whole different pipe system, one that they had never seen before. Judging by the looks of it, no one had known of this place for ages. The water was pouring in from the broken wall but judging from how far down this new place went, it'd take ages for it to even fill up a quarter of a way. This allowed the brothers to split their tails and explore the new area while walking around.

Down and down the went, walking down staircase after staircase, ladder after ladder, it's like it never ended. Luigi tried to keep track of what directions they took and the details around them, fearing they'd up getting lost with how far down they went. By the time they got to the bottom, the water that had rushed in had filled about 12 feet of this place. Based on how dirty it was, it must have gathered up over the years and the break helped fill it up more. It was no problem for them.

They dived in the water to have a look around. "Eww. This water is so gross! M-maybe it's best if we head back, this doesn't seem safe." Luigi suggested, cringing uncomfortably at how dirty the water felt, looked and even tasted. "Just a quick look, Lu. We'll be out soon." Mario promised, not taking his eyes off of his surroundings. He only turned around when he heard the clanging sound of a pipe bring hit.

He saw one of his and Luigi's wrenches laying inside a large green pipe but Luigi was nowhere to be found.

Worry started creeping in Mario when he couldn't see Luigi all of a sudden, even more so when he wouldn't answer his calls to his name. Mario swam over and picked up the wrench from the floor, slowly inching deeper into the pipe to see if he could spot Luigi.

The wrench was suddenly ripped out of his hand by a strong current that soon not even he could fight against as he was sucked into the pipe.

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[midnightsun-if]

can we have the most favorite media thing (like, favorite videogame series, favorite book, movie, etc) from all the ros?

Koda

Video Game: Stardew Valley, it’s just something he enjoys playing and he’s so proud of his farm.

Book: Charlotte’s Web, he knows it’s a book meant for children but he has a lot of fond memories curled up against his mom as she read it to him.

Movie: Brother Bear, it’s a bit on the nose but he loves the story, the visuals, and the soundtrack.

Song: On My Way by Phil Collins from Brother Bear.

Scarlett

Video Game: Dragon Age, she rarely plays video games but she’s always enjoyed that one.

Book: The Return of the King (LotR), A Dance With Dragons (ASoIF), or Pride and Prejudice… It’s a toss up.

Movie: Casablanca or Scream.

Song: Tchaikovsky— Swan Lake, Op.20, Act: 2, No. 10, Scene: Moderato.

Cyrus/Cyra

Video Game: Either classic Mario or Ori and the Blind Forest. They typically like platformers though.

Book: The Raven, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, or Jurassic Park.

Movie: The Queen or The Chronicles of Narnia.

Song: Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles.

Quinn

Video Game: Wii Sports, it’s always something they’ve enjoyed playing.

Book: The Odyssey.

Movie: The Sandlot or Field of Dreams.

Song: Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine.

Caden

Video Game: Peggle… It’s calming to them.

Book: The Da Vinci Code, its book that they’ve read numerous times.

Movie: Good Will Hunting or The Bucket List.

Song: My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion.

Sloane

Video Game: Elden Ring, it’s something they’ve enjoyed playing.

Book: Peter Pan, it’s something that reminds them of their childhood… However, painful that is now.

Movie: Hook, for the same reason as Peter Pan.

Song: Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones.

Blake

Video Game: Sims, it’s one of the few things that’s been able to keep their attention.

Book: A Tale of Two Cities.

Movie: Coyote Ugly or Pretty Woman.

Song: …Baby One More Time by Britney Spears.

Reginald/Regina

Video Game: Left 4 Dead, but they also adore Knights of the Old Republic too.

Book: Dracula (funnily enough) or The Hobbit… (The Dragonriders of Pern series has its own category.)

Movie: Star Wars (Originals).

Song: The Force Theme by Samuel Kim (Cover).

[girlbosswar]

ROUND 2 MASTERLIST

I apologize for the wait

Here are the round 2 matchups

SIDE ONE

Sharpay Evans (High School Musical) Vs. Queen (deltarune)

Reko Yabusame (Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-) Vs. Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls)

Megaera (Hades) Vs. Agent 8 (Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion)

Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog CD) Vs. Maya Fey (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)

Morganthe (Wizard 101) Vs. The Administrator (Team Fortress 2)

Audria Rose (Descendants) Vs. Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)

Toriel (UNDERTALE) Vs. Aspheera (Ninjago)

Sara Chidouin (Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-) Vs. Callie (Splatoon)

Marina (Splatoon 2) Vs. Jolyne Cujoh (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Ema Skye (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) Vs. Daisy (Super Mario Land)

Nyota Uhura (Star Trek) Vs. Regina George (Mean Girls)

Olivier Mira Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist) Vs. Lady Iron Fan (Monkie Kid)

Hornet (Hollow Night) Vs. Franziska von Karma (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All)

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place) Vs. Buffy Anne Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives) Vs. April O’Neil (ROTTMNT)

Princess Carolyn (Bojack Horseman) Vs. Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Reagan Ridley (Inside Job) Vs. P.I.X.A.L (Ninjago)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) Vs. Korra (The Legend of Korra)

Bulma (Dragon Ball) Vs. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Susie (deltarune) Vs. Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Rumi Usagiyama (My Hero Academia) Vs. Lauren Mallard (Welcome to Night Vale)

Bayonetta (Bayonetta) Vs. Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Frye (Splatoon 3) Vs. Ann Takamaki (Persona 5)

GLaDOS (Portal) Vs. Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Marina (OMORI) Vs. Clawdeen Wolf (Monster High)

Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil) Vs. Miss Piggy (The Muppets)

Lord Dominator (Wander Over Yonder) & Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) Vs. Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations) Vs. Lucina (Fire Emblem)

Marie (Splatoon) Vs. Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

SIDE TWO

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid) Vs. Solar Flare (Plants vs. Zombies)

Mia Fey (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) Vs. Agent 3 (Splatoon)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) Vs. Tabitha Chrysanthemum Scarlet (Scarlet Hollow)

Astrid Hofferson (How To Train Your Dragon) Vs. Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies)

Rapunzel (Tangled) Vs. Nami (One Piece)

Nadja (What We Do in the Shadows) Vs. Bridget (Guilty Gear)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) Vs. Yosano Akiko (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Celestia Ludenberg (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc) Vs. Helen Richardson (The Magnus Archives)

Akane Kurushiki (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors) Vs. Clementine (Stray)

Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things) Vs. Annabeth Chase (Heroes of Olympus)

Jinx (League of Legends/The Arcana) Vs. Lotus (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors)

Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) Vs. Kitty Softpaws (Puss and Boots)

Boss (AI: The Somnium Files) Vs. Coco Adel (RWBY)

Harumi (Ninjago) Vs. Lady with an Ermine (Leonardo da Vinci)

Edalyn Clawthorne (The Owl House) Vs. Darling Charming (Ever After High)

Pearl (Splatoon 2) Vs. Carmelita Montoya Fox (Sly Cooper)

Vex’ahlia (Critical Role) Vs. Queen (Chess)

Lup (The Adventure Zone) Vs. Sweetheart (OMORI)

Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) Vs. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samus Aran (Metroid) Vs. Clover (Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors)

Jessie (Pokémon) Vs. Fiona (Shrek)

Dana Cardinal (Welcome to Night Vale) Vs. Rose Lalonde (Homestuck)

Nadia Vulvokov (Russian Doll) Vs. Lucille Sharpe (Crimson Peak)

Undyne (UNDERTALE) Vs. Ryūko Matoi (Kill la Kill)

Mari (OMORI) Vs. Rosalina (Super Mario Galaxy)

Weiss Schnee (RWBY) Vs. Elizabert Megafig (Bugsnax)

Cleo de Nile (Monster High) Vs. Skylor Chen (Ninjago)

Barbie (Barbie) Vs. Cynthia (Pokémon Diamond/Pearl)

[esamastation]

Second chapter of Gift is posted! Also, do you know what Desmond would be called in that time? Would it be Desmond Auditore Da Firenze, even though they're not in Florence and Desmond has never even been there, or Da Monteriggioni, or da Roma? Or do you know any sources I could look at regarding the naming conventions?

No sources, I'm sorry, I mostly learned by osmosis. It's basically just pointing out where a person is from, and since Desmond wasn't born or is likely to be raised in Florence, "da Firenze" isn't it.

I think Ezio would go with whatever place Desmond is initially raised in - Monteriggioni if that's where they stay, etc. Desmond Auditore da Roma would raise questions in that situation. If, however, Monteriggioni gets razed to the ground by the Papal armies again and Ezio heads to Rome, being from Monteriggioni might paint a target on Desmond's back.

Tho since Ezio claims Desmond officially as part of the Auditore family, it might not be that important to point out where he's from, precisely. Few of the other characters in Ezio trilogy make the point to do it, Mario never does and Leonardo is a "da Vinci" because as a bastard he doesn't have a family name and "son of Ser Piero from Vinci" is a mouthful. (Personally I think the reason it's such a commonly pointed out thing with Ezio is because his family was part of the upper echelon, his father was a notary, and it's remembrance for what he lost... and his enemies use it to mock him, maybe. "Ezio Auditore from Florence... except you're not welcome in Florence anymore, are you?")

[smallmariofindings]

Illustration parodying Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper painting, featuring a variety of different video game characters, from the French Canard Jeux Video magazine. Note Mario to the right of the center of the image, in the position taken by St. James the Greater in the original painting.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Canard Jeux Video (France), Issue 12, 2014

[nintendoprecure]

Character Introduction: Cure Jump

~Basic Info~

Name: Cure Jump

Hair color: Brown w/ red highlights

Eye color: Blue

Cure Jump is one of the six main Cures in Nintendo Precure!, and is the group leader. Jump’s “civilian form” is Larissa Frausto.

Jump’s very cheerful and easy to get along with. She often smiles and grins, happy to be doing her part in protecting the world from the Game Over Squad. As the leader, she’s strong willed, brave, courageous, and overall a joy to be around. Her outgoing personality makes her the face of the team and what they stand for: justice!

~Appearance~

Cure Jump appears to currently have 2 looks used in NP. There’s her regular appearance, and one where she appears to have actual overall pants, gloves, a yellow cape, and a Mario hat. Her hair also differs slightly. Currently, only one person has seen Jump looking like this…

~Power and abilities~

Cure Jump appears to weld the ability to to summon fire for her special attack, “Jumping Fire.” She also seems to be very good as physical fighting, whenever that’d be punching or fighting and seems to have a bigger jump than the majority of her teammates. (Brownie points if you can tell what style I was trying to emulate in this image)

~Voice Claims~

For JP, her voice claim is Leonardo Da Vinci from Fate/Grand Order, who is voiced by Maaya Sakamoto. For EN, her voice claim is Leonardo Da Vinci from Fate/Grand Order, who is voiced by Erika Harlacher. Both voices I feel are excellent fits for Jump, sounding a bit mature and leader-like, but still retaining cheerfulness~

⚠️ WARNING!!!

Recently there has been bad rumors about Jump. They appear to be just from her jealous haters… don’t believe them. Alas, just another thing about being a precure… you’re basically a celebrity. People will make up things to cause drama…

Last post I said that Emiko was next but I forgot about Jump ahah. Don’t worry, now Emiko will be next for intros now that Jump is finished.

[giallofever2]

Napoli una storia d'amore e di vendetta

Data di uscita: 1979

Regista: Mario Bianchi

Sceneggiatura: Alberto Sciotti

Casa di produzione: M. D. V. Film

[perfettamentechic]

10 maggio … ricordiamo …

10 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Neil Connery, Neil Niren Connery, attore scozzese. Fratello di Sean Connery, era noto essenzialmente per il suo ruolo nel film OK Connery (1967). È apparso in diversi film. Era sposato con Eleanor, dalla quale ebbe due figlie. Morto per una breve malattia; sette mesi dopo il fratello maggiore. (n. 1938) 2017: Geoffrey Bayldon, Albert Geoffrey Bayldon, attore britannico. (n. 1924) 2015:…

[shsl-box-worshipper]

Hot Take Alert! (Essay)

Okay...this is going to sound weird (and god forbid, I'm probably going to have discourse in my notes for months and months after this). But....

I feel like AI-Generation should be banned and made illegal. Not just 'AI Image Generation'. I mean, ALMOST EVERY FORM OF AI GENERATION!

Specially, visual generation and audial generation. My current hypothesis is that, by the year 2050, almost everything artistically related, whether it be stuff like a piece of promotional art to voiceover lines, will be AI-generated, at least at a coporate and mainline industrial level. This is based on modern-day observations with factory jobs and how they have been slowly phased out, from the early 20th century with the introduction of the Assembly Line all the way to today.

Sure, you might be asking me 'Well, what about my big titty anime girls?' or 'What about those memes where Mario says fuck but it actually kind of sounds like Mario?' like they are completely harmless.

....THOSE ARE THE EXACT PROBLEMS I'M TALKING ABOUT!

That stuff you want to generate of your own volation? That art that you are too depraved just to commission someone for?

It wasn't made by a human. An honest-to-god, breathing, flesh-and-blood human.

It was made by a machine. A series of lines of code made to mimic the actions of a human without all of the flaws or personality that come with being human.

Now, this isn't me going against AI in general. AI itself is an incredibly useful tool in all sorts of fields from video games to factories. I mean, anyone who has played single-player Mario Kart 8 is probably more familiar with AI than a computer scientist from 1940.

I am saying the concept of AI Generation is an inherently bad thing for us as a species. Or more specifically, what I feel like is the most important aspect of our species as a whole: Our Creativity.

From Leonardo Da Vinci to the guy who wrote poorly structured poems back in Kindergarten, we all have a higher capacity for higher-level thinking and manipulation of our environments compared to most other lifeforms on this planet. However, with that higher-level intellect also comes our inherent emotions. This is what allows us to achieve the global cooperation that we enjoy and take for granted, to achieve our pack and herd dynamics. Our abilities to feel fear, sadness, happiness, anger, and so much more is as inherent to our neurological chemistry as our intelligence and understanding.

This has created what I like to call 'emotional transplanting'. Using our intelligence and understanding of the world around us, either based on empirical study or observing phenomenon, to manipulate and change the world around us to reflect our emotions. To use our understanding of language, both oral and bodily, to tell stories based on our memories or our own ideas and creations. To use our hands to shape the world, or, to a lesser extent, an object, to project our emotions and showcase our world of thinking through how we manipulate, change, and project onto the world around us using the neurological and physical tools at our disposal.

And I feel like, in a way, AI Generation is removing that key core of our being.

Because, at the click of a button, we can generate giant paintings that would've taken years upon years for a human to do. At the click of a button, we can make anyone read anything that has been and will be ever written. At the click of a button, we can generate stories that no one in their right minds could've ever thought of or will think of.

However, what we get with the great increase in speed, we sacrifice the soul of the work. The humanity, the emotions. The flaws, the ideas on display. They are stripped away and slapped perfectly together through lines upon lines of calculated, studied, and refined AI code, so that it LOOKS like a piece of art up there with the Impressionists or the Renaissance, or a realistic photo, or a story worthy of a Oscar or a Pulitzer Prize.

But it isn't.

All because it lacks that human element. It lacks soul. It lacks emotion. Sure, an AI can simulate emotion. But it can't feel emotion.

But corporations know that. They know how easy AI is to use compared to actual creatives, both regarding time and money, and so, I predict that, if we do not do something about this, if we do not raise our voices and holler from the hilltops upon which our forefathers before screamed for their unions or our old masters who shouted cries for freedom...

We too, will end up like the factory workers of yesteryear. Discarded by the wayside all because companies care more about money, time, and manipulating the population into buying their product, than the humans who put their heart, their soul, and their emotions into the things that they have created.

This is why I believe AI Generation should be made illegal. To not only protect the careers and livelihoods of thousands, but to also ensure that one of the most important features of our civilization does not fall into the trappings of dystopic dreams and cyberpunk corporate greed.

[jartitameteneis]

LOS BORGIAS

Entre la Cruz y la Espada en el Renacimiento Italiano,

En los anales de la historia, pocas familias han despertado tanta fascinación y horror como los Borgias. Originarios de la región de Valencia en España, esta familia se trasladó a Italia y se enredó en el tejido del poder eclesiástico y político del Renacimiento. Su historia es una mezcla intoxicante de ambición, intriga, corrupción y un inquebrantable deseo de ascenso social y poder.

La saga de los Borgias comenzó con Alfonso Borgia, quien se convirtió en el Papa Calixto III en 1455. Sin embargo, fue su sobrino, Rodrigo Borgia, quien dejaría una marca imborrable en la historia. Con una astucia política inigualable y una moralidad cuestionable, Rodrigo se convirtió en Papa Alejandro VI en 1492. Su elección al trono papal fue el comienzo de una era definida por el nepotismo, la conspiración y la lucha por el poder.

El legado de los Borgias no se limita a Rodrigo. Sus hijos, César, Lucrecia, Juan y Jofré, jugaron roles fundamentales en la dinámica del poder de su tiempo. César, originalmente destinado para una carrera eclesiástica, se convirtió en un líder militar implacable y despiadado, inspirando incluso al autor Nicolás Maquiavelo en su obra "El Príncipe". Lucrecia, por otro lado, ha sido inmortalizada en la historia y la cultura popular como un símbolo de seducción y manipulación, aunque la realidad histórica es mucho más compleja.

La historia de los Borgias está llena de episodios que parecen sacados de una novela. Desde escandalosas acusaciones de incesto y asesinatos políticos hasta alianzas matrimoniales estratégicas, su narrativa está teñida de intrigas y misterios sin resolver. Los banquetes en el Palacio Apostólico no solo eran eventos sociales, sino también escenarios de juegos de poder donde se fraguaban alianzas y traiciones.

A pesar de su reputación, los Borgias también contribuyeron al Renacimiento italiano. Fueron mecenas de las artes, financiando a artistas como Rafael y Leonardo da Vinci. Su influencia se extendió más allá de los confines políticos, dejando una huella indeleble en la cultura y el arte de su época.

Los Borgias, con todos sus defectos y virtudes, fueron un reflejo de su tiempo: una era donde la ambición, el poder y el arte se entrelazaban de maneras complejas. Su historia continúa fascinando y provocando debates, sirviendo como un espejo en el que podemos contemplar las luces y sombras del alma humana.

Si os interesa este personaje histórico, un libro fácil de leer y completito es "Los Borgia " de Mario Puzo, el autor del libro homónimo para el cine "El padrino" como curiosidad, el libro no pudo terminarlo el autor, falleció antes, pero dejó a su mujer todo el contenido, terminando creo los últimos capítulos, uno o dos. Me gustó muchísimo, ni una novela he leído tan intrigante como esta.

[indiesole]

THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN HISTORY/COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD! (@INDIES)

i.e. THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY! (@INDIES)

Rajesh Khanna

Lionel Messi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Muhammad Ali

Joan of Arc

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

Online Indie

J. K. Rowling

David Lean

Nadia Comaneci

Diego Maradona

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

Ludwig Van Beethoven

William W. Cargill

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Sam Walton

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Roy Thomson

Tim Berners-Lee

Marie Curie

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Roman Polanski

Samuel Slater

J. P. Morgan

Cary Grant

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Harvard

Alain Delon

Ramakrishna Paramhansa (Official God)

The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

Bruce Lee

Bhagwan Krishna (Official God)

Charlemagne

Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

Bhagwan Ganesha (Official God)

Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Alfred Hitchcock

Pythagoras

William Randolph Hearst

Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alec Guinness

Nostradamus

Christopher Plummer

Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

Amma Karunamayi/ Mata Parvati (Official God)

Peter Sellers

Gerard Depardieu

Joseph Safra

Robert Morris

Sean Connery

Petr Kellner

Aristotle Onassis

Usain Bolt

Jack Welch

Alfredo di Stefano

Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jordan

Paul Muni

Steven Spielberg

Louis Pasteur

Ingrid Bergman

Norma Shearer

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ayn Rand

Jesus Christ (Official God)

Luciano Pavarotti

Alain Resnais

Frank Sinatra

Allah (Official God)

Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Alva Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

George Lucas

Swami Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Carl Lewis

Brett Favre

Helen Keller

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Buddha (Official God)

Hugh Grant

K. L. Saigal

Roger Federer

Rash Behari Bose

Tiger Woods

William Blake

Jesse Owens

Claude Miller

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subhash Chandra Bose

Satyajit Ray

Hippocrates

Chiang Kai-Shek

John Logie Baird

Geeta Dutt

Raphael (painter)

Bhagwan Shiva (Official God)

Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

George Orwell

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Catherine Deneuve

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bill Gates

Bhagwan Ram (Official God)

Michael Phelps

Michael Faraday

Audrey Hepburn

Dalai Lama

Grace Kelly

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin

Galileo Galilei

Gary Cooper

Roger Moore

John Huston

Blaise Pascal

Humphrey Bogart

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Morse

Wayne Gretzky

Yogi Berra

Barry Levinson

Patrice Chereau (director)

Jerry Lewis

Louis Daguerre

James Watt

Henri Rousseau

Nikita Krushchev

Jack Dorsey

Dev Anand

Elia Kazan

Alexander Fleming

David Selznick

Frank Marshall

Viswanathan Anand

Major Dhyan Chand

Swami Vivekananda

Felix Rohatyn

Sam Spiegel

Anand Bakshi

Victor Hugo

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Official God)

Steve Jobs

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Lord Hanuman

Stanley Kubrick

Giotto

Voltaire

Diego Velazquez

Ernest Hemingway

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Mario Lemieux

Kishore Kumar

James Stewart

Douglas Fairbanks

Confucius

Babe Ruth

Raj Kapoor

Titian aka Tiziano Vecelli

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

Jim Carrey

Mohammad Rafi

Steffi Graf

Pele

Gustave Courbet

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

Milos Forman

Steve Wozniak

Georgia O’ Keeffe

Mala Sinha

Aryabhatta

Magic Johnson

Patanjali

Leo Tolstoy

Tansen

Henry Fonda

Albrecht Durer

Benazir Bhutto

Cal Ripken Jr

Samuel Goldwyn

Mumtaz (actress)

Panini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pablo Picasso

George Clooney

Olivia de Havilland

Prem Chand

Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

Queen Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

Gerardus Mercator

Edith Piaf

Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba (Official God)

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100-ish classics and must-reads

solaris girl's list of 100 must-reads :-)

( bold = read. constantly updating!)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 

1984 - George Orwell 

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Giver - Lois Lowrey

The Book Thief - Markus Zusack

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Candide - Voltaire

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein

The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe

Emma - Jane Austen

The Republic - Plato

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Tell Tale Heart and Other Readings - Edgar Allan Poe

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Sidhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespear

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

White Fang - Jack London

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway