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Aug 2022
17m 25s

Lucrezia Borgia

History Hit & Assassin's Creed
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History has not been kind to Lucrezia Borgia. Daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, she has suffered from her family name (her father was known for his deviant sexual activities). In his eponym play, written more than 300 years after her death, Victor Hugo created a black legend around Lucrezia Borgia, based on allegations of incest, poisoning, and murder on her part. But these rumors, mostly spread by the Borgias’ rivals, were never proven to be true. Nowadays, historians attempt to rehabilitate her legacy and demonstrate that Lucrezia Borgia was a victim of a cruel period for women.


Writer: Abdelhakim Rezgui


Host: Danny Wallace


Production: Axelle Gobert, Clément Lesaffre


Production assistant: Aimie Faconnier


Recording: Théo Albaric


Mixing and editing: Adrien Le Blond, Jimmy Bardin


International coordination: Martin Stahl


Original music: David Spinelli


Illustration: © Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.


Executive producers: Lorenzo Benedetti, Louis Daboussy, Benoit Dunaigre, Julien Fabre, Etienne Bouvier


Ubisoft: Etienne Allonier, Aymar Azaizia, Leslie Capillon, Louis Raynaud, Justine Villeneuve


An original Ubisoft series, produced by Paradiso Media.


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