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Some people fake their death, I’m faking my life.

Don DeLilo (via quotemadness)

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“Here lies in a little earth he, who everyone feared, he, who peace and war held in his hand. Oh, you who go in search of worthy things to praise, if you could praise the worthiest then your path stops here and you do not need to go any farther.”

AUT CESAR AUT NIHIL. RIP DUC DE VALENTINOIS 12 March, 1507.

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↳ requested by: @lady-eleanor-vane

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 history meme | Cesare Borgia & Charlotte d’Albret [¾] 

[…]Cesare and Charlotte’s honeymoon didn’t last long. It was an unforgettable summer in Cesare’s life, perhaps the happiest of his life. a true romance, meteoric as everything was in his vital trajectory. […]Cesare grants Charlotte full powers over all his possessions. A document dated September 8, made Charlotte, a seventeen-year-old girl, let us not forget, administrator of all the possessions and his absolute heiress in case of death. it seems clear testimony of a high degree of affection and trust. ― José Catalán Deus- El Príncipe del Renacimiento.

“[…]In September ―four short months after the wedding-bells had pealed above them― the trumpets of war blared out their call to arms. Louis’s preparations for the invasion of Milan were complete and he poured his troops through Piedmont under the command of Giangiacomo Trivulzio. Cesare was to accompany Louis into Italy. He appointed his seventeen-year-old duchess governor and administrator of his lands and lordships in France and Dauphiny under a deed dated September 8, and he made her heiress to all his moveable possessions in the event of his death. Surely this bears some witness, not only to the prevailing of a good understanding between them, but to his esteem of her and the confidence he reposed in her mental qualities. The rest her later mourning of him shows.”                  ― Rafael Sabatini - The Life of Cesare Borgia.

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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one’s awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one’s personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.

Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister (via quotespile)

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Volker Bruch as Kriminalkommissar Gereon Rath in Babylon Berlin (1.01-1.04)

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Severija Janušauskaitė - Zu Asche, Zu Staub

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His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose. (via vitruvians)

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“Every historian wants to know what really happened in the past. That means- at a minimum- gaining access to records, the more detailed and accurate, the closer to the actual events, the better. But in our hearts we always want more than we can ever have: We want to read documents that are lost forever; to interview people long dead; to be eyewitness to the great events that changed the course of history. We want that in part because we want to solve mysteries, we do want to know the truth about the past.”

From I Wish I’d Been There, Book Two edited by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K. Rabb (via historyismyboyfriend)

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robert, 1979 just kids

#just kids #robert mapplethorpe #patti smith

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Sophia Loren in The Key, 1958. Directed by Carol Reed.

#sophia loren

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Dettaglio giovane con cornucopia, Fontana dell’Amenano, Catania, Sicily, Italy

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Monica Bellucci, “Malèna” (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2000).

#monica bellucci #malèna #giuseppe tornatore #ennio morricone #movie

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Detail of the column base of the Ancient Roman Column of Antoninus Pius. 161 AD

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#caterina sforza riario #virna lisi #history #renaissance

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I started reading The Queen’s Cross by Schoonover and king Enrique IV of Castile is portrayed as a fashionable but histerical sissy who wants to whip and whack for sadistic pleasure his page boy. Isabel doesn’t even breathe but everyone love her and wanted her on the throne. Anyway it’s not as bad as it actually seems. For now.

#isabel of castile #lawrence schoonover