Lucrezia Borgia

:This article is about the historical person. Lucrezia Borgia is also the name Buffalo Bill gave to his gun.

Plays, Operas, Films, and Novels

• Victor Hugo's tragedy, loosely based on Lucretia's myth, was transformed into a libretto by Felice Romani for
• Donizetti's opera, Lucrezia Borgia (1834), first performed at La Scala, Milan, 26 December 1834. When it was produced in Paris, in 1840, Hugo obtained an injunction against further productions. The libretto was then rewritten and retitled La Rinegata, with the Italian characters changed to Turks, and the performances were resumed. The first English-language production was in London on 30 December 1843.
• The 1949 film Bride of Vengeance (or Mask for Lucretia) starred Paulette Goddard as Lucretia (and Macdonald Carey as Cesare) in a fictionalized portrayal of her as her brother's tool who went straight once she had the chance, a view many historians endorse.
• There is also a 1952 movie with Martine Carol.
• There is also a 1926 silent movie entitled Lucrezia Borgia (see photo).
• There is also the historical novel, Prince of Foxes, made into a movie starring Orson Welles and Tyrone Powers.
• Rafael Sabatini's novel The Shame of Motley features Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia as supporting characters.
• Gregory Maguire's newest book Mirror, Mirror is a retelling of the classic Snow White story using the Borgia family. Lucrezia is set as the Evil Step Mother who poisons the protagonist.