Lucrezia Borgia

I recently listened to a biography on CD of Lucrezia Borgia. I remember hearing the name as a child and equating it with evil. To me, evil is sick and twisted violence, like dismembering babies for fun, vivesecting folks, genocide, etc. I always assumed she was horrible along those ways. However, it turns out such is not the case.

Lucrezia, 1480-1519, was the bastard daughter of Roderigo Borgia, who later became pope alexander the sixth. It is apparent that Lucrezia's most horrific evil turns out to be having a sexual appetite, which was not uncommon to ANYBODY EVEN THE POPE in those good old days. She may have had incest sex with her father and brother, but there is no proofs behind this. Incest was rather common back in those days and rather accepted as well as the sexual deviancy of the pope.

Turns out Lucrezia was a rather decent administrator as well as Duchess of Ferrara during the last half of her life.

All that aside, I really don't want to talk about Lucrezia, as the book, "Lucrezia Borgia" taught me a lot about the vatican and the papacy which I found much more interesting than Lucrezia.

The popes often had a large sexual appetite. It was not unusual for popes to have many bastard children. pope alexander the sixth had 8, including Lucrezia. The man loved to fuck and it was common knowledge and acceptabe behavior back in the good old days.

The popes also loved to kill, in spite of god's law that "thou shalt not..." The popes had their own armies. I had always thought that back when Chris Columbus started his campaigns of genocide against us in the Western Hemisphere that Italy was the nation state that it is today. Nope! There were many different states within the nation and most were at war with each other, often horrifically brutal. The vatican was often warring and killing right out there with the aristocracy. The popes were often greedy for power and land. Nothing much has really changed if you look carefully enough at the vatican Criminal Organization today.

I am also currently reading "The Vatican's Holocaust," by Arvo Manhattan. I will give a review of that book when I am finished. The papacy was heavily involved with the fascists during WWII and the priests and ingelligentsia were often involved in the slaughter of Orthodox Serbs in Croatia and throughout Yugoslavia. So the history of the criminal organization known as the vatican is quite interesting. One is given the perception that these folks are good followers of the laws of god, but are honestly brutal, violent, deviant, sick and twisted more often than not.

Listenting to "Lucrezia Borgia" taught me a lot about the historical patterns of the criminal organization known as the vatican, currently headed by the Nazi pope ratzinger.

To quote Mark Twain, and poorly, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme."