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CORRADO AUGIAS
A 500 ANNI DALLA MORTE
Lucrezia Borgia is the most wretched figure among women in modern history.
"Is she such because she was the most guilty? That is, does it only fall to her to bear the burden of execration that the world by mistake inflicted on her?"
This is the question Ferdinand Gregorovius poses at the beginning of his monograph on Lucretia (1480-1519). Victor Hugo depicted her as a moral monster and as such spread her image in the theaters of Europe. Geneviève Chastenet, on the contrary, almost made her a heroine victimized at most by circumstances and the execrable family in which she had come into the world.
Princess of Salerno, Governor of the Duchy of Spoleto, Regent of the Church State, Regent of the Duchy of Ferrara, Lucrezia is one of the most controversial and most fascinating women of the Italian and European Renaissance. A fictional life in itself, goes together to a gallery of grandiose characters: from her father Pope Alexander VI to her brother Cesare Duke of Valentinois (the Valentine) transfigured into Niccolò Machiavelli's Prince.
Sexual excesses, crimes, civil and ecclesiastical arbìtrations, jolt to life a society that was changing the world and its representation.
by Corrado Augias and Francesco Frisari
lighting and technical supervision Angelo Generali
video direction and mise en espace Francesco Frisari
production **Corvino Productions**
in collaboration with Spoleto62 Festival of 2 Worlds
Journalist and writer, Corrado Augias was born to Rome. He spent many years abroad. Paris first then New York, from where he was a correspondent for the weekly "L'Espresso" and the daily "La Repubblica." For "La Repubblica," he edits the daily column of correspondence with readers. He has published many fiction and non-fiction books, written for the theater, conceived and hosted numerous television programs. Remarkable fortune and numerous translations have had his books devoted to the 'secrets' of cities and the figure of Jesus. Since 2006, again with Corvino Productions, he has been staging shows dedicated to great figures in the history of music and art in theaters throughout Italy and beyond.