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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 31 2010, 06:06 PM (513 Views) | |
| Giovanna borgia | Aug 31 2010, 06:06 PM Post #1 |
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[align=center]![]() G I O V A N N A B O R G I A ![]() * She keeps Moet et Chandon In a pretty cabinet 'Let them eat cake' she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Khrushchev and Kennedy . HEY THERE. THE NAME IS Angie, AND I AM eighteen, or slowly getting there xP. I'VE BEEN ROLEPLAYING FOR ABOUT since the dinosaurs died AND MY OTHER CHARACTERS WOULD BE Francesca de’ Medici and Henry Percy IF YOU HAVE ANY. I FOUND FKAC AT an Amway meeting. OH, BY THE WAY, I READ THE RULES. WANT PROOF? THE CODE WORD IS Pumpernickel WANT TO REACH ME? HERE'S MY IM: it’s somewhere on the board xD [/align]Appearance: Unlike most women in the Italian court, Giovanna has blonde hair and honey brown eyes. Her body is slight, almost fragile looking, but in perfect health. As a Borgia, Giovanna possess a sort of vigour that is hardly seen in women of her era, often manifesting itself in her endless energy for dance and game. Personality: Giovanna has taken after her father in political aptness and learned from the master, Giovanni de’ Medici. She is bawdy without being lewd, mischievous without being annoying and often has a joie-de-vivre attitude about her. Giovanna can be rather secretive. She acts without telling anyone her plans, which makes her movements seem lightning fast when they do happen. She is both worldly and pious, a mix so often seen in those in Rome, as she separates religiosity from secular teachings. L’histoire “The story of my birth is rather extraordinary, so I hope you shall have the patience to hear it out. I have two fathers, both are great men. I am the illegitimate daughter of the great Cesare Borgia, who made all of the Romagna shake in fear, and an offshoot branch of the Colonna clan, from the lady Fiorella Colonna but many people refer to me as the daughter of Giovanni de’ Medici and I am even named after him, in a bout of cruel irony. My birth occurred after my two fathers had finished their education together at the University of Pisa, returning to Rome. Both were young cardinals and were of the more princely habit than the spiritual lives required of their position. My father, then Cardinal Cesare, Archbishop of Valencia, and Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, had been riding in the lands surrounding Rome when they came upon a villa, obviously owned by a nobleman of Rome. As they were examining the architectural achievements of the villa, a beautiful lady with a noble bearing came out into the vineyards. Both young lords were shocked and immediately began inquiring as to the identity of the lady. They were told that she was Fiorella Colonna, who was as proud as she was beautiful and the most pious woman in the parish. Cardinal Giovanni, then merry with laughter, made a bet with my father, that he would not be able to seduce Fiorella. My father obviously accepted and won the bet within a week. They say that no woman had ever been able to resist the charms of Cesare Borgia and that a week would have been long for such a lady. I do not know. I was the result of that night. My father, with good humour, named me after Cardinal Giovanni for he had always maintained that Giovanni was my true father, so he named me not Cesarna as was suggested but Giovanna, under the pretence of my grandmother, Lady Giovanna Catanei. Yet, everyone understood the humour in my name and has always referred to me in jest as Giovanna di Giovanni Borgia. I was born in the convent of Santa Maria on the Tiber where my mother retired to escape the scrutiny of an illegitimate child. It was when Giovanni and my father came to visit that Cardinal Giovanni met Contessina Colonna, my aunt. So I’ve always claimed that Francesca de’ Medici, my lady, owes her existence to me. My mother stayed in the convent after I was born and I was raised there for two years before she was married off to Perugia. It was then that I entered the household of my aunt Lucrezia Borgia in the great Vatican chambers of Pope Alexander VI. My mother, after the affair had always loved my father, who did not afford her a passing thought other than one night’s pleasure. Within the year, she did from heartbreak. I suppose I should hate my father, but who could really hate her own father? He was always the image of kindness to me, and I loved him for it. I was not, by any means, his first child, nor was I the last but father always kept me around as a result of my connection to the House of Medici. My second father, Giovanni, fled Italy after his family were thrown out of Florentine government. I seldom saw my father, who was busy in his political manoeuvring. He became Cardinal, then renounced his hat, then sent all of Europe in a flurry with his movements. I watched, and listened. In the few times I did see my father, first Cardinal Cesare then Duke Valentino, there was always one word that described him. Glorious. Many others would use ruthless, cunning, lecherous, but every time I saw him, whether publically or privately, I had always seen a ring of gold around his head. He was an angel to me, on the pedestal of glory, and I grasped on to every moment I had with him. Then, Giovanni de’ Medici, my other father, returned and within a year, when my aunt Lucrezia married into Ferrara, I was put in his household as a companion to Francesca de’ Medici. We soon became great friends. There was not a thing we did not study, from Dante to Augustine, from the Bible to Ovid. We studied the art of love and the art of mathematics, the quantitative and the qualitative. We were both women and scholars, dedicated to music and dancing as well as philosophy and astronomy. Francesca absorbed everything eagerly; I always thought the learning too theoretical and wanted a more practical atmosphere. I took to roaming the streets when Francesca was studying Cicero with Cardinal Bembo or the beauties of sculpture with Cardinal Riario. In 1503, my father lost all he had gained after the death of Pope Alexander VI. Julius II was elected, a mortal enemy of the Borgia but a patron of Giovanni de’ Medici. Out of Giovanni’s kindness, I was allowed to stay in his household while my half-siblings were all shipped off to Ferrara. My life continued as before, with the same luxuries as when my father was at the height of his power. As a lady to Francesca, I learned with her and fought my way around Rome with her name. I was indebted to the good Cardinal and vowed to serve the Medici name as mine own. It was with this in mind that I accompanied Francesca to England at the death of her husband. Cardinal Giovanni, my second father, prepared for me a hefty dowry to help me marry here and stay in Francesca’s household. Were it not for him, then my position on the marriage market would have had little hope. I had always envied, secretly, Francesca’s ready supply of husbands and even the King of England, but she has been kind and so I bide my time, waiting for my turn to join the matrimonial bed. ((Basically, Giovanna will not be used too often for now. She’s just a character I made to replace Francesca de’ Medici once/if Francesca loses her throne. Giovanna will stay in England as Fran’s replacement Papal Legate, so I plan to have her marry an English man.)) |
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| Catherine Willoughby | Sep 1 2010, 12:50 PM Post #2 |
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| William Spencer | Jun 30 2011, 08:15 AM Post #3 |
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