The Nights of Lucretia Borgia

Historians generally agree that the heroine 's bad reputation has been blown out of all proportion ,and she was mainly a patron ,protecting the arts. A pawn in her brother's and her father's games,they used her to ally themselves with dangerous enemies.

Historically , the movie is not very accurate,to put it mildly; Lucrezia is here par excellence the hussy ,faithful to the legend which was woven ; a calculating bossy woman who makes all the men around drool and keeps a tight rein on them .Belinda Lee is well cast as the sexy majestic daughter of a pope .

One can prefer Abel Gance's and Christian-Jaque's versions ; in this 1959 effort,orgies are more timid and the title is quite a misnomer :the nights are few and far between and the screenplay , with its scenes taken by force from Robin Hood , is thoroughly simplistic.

A young ruined noble (Jacques Sernas, a French actor who essentially worked in Italy and thus is virtually unknown in his native land) is sitting on a fence : should he become one of Lucrezia's attentive escorts - nights in her bed being the beautiful reward- ,or should he join the Ravenne family ,dispossessed of their land ,in the grand tradition of Robin, in their fight against the tyrants in Rome ,namely the Borgia family ?The choice is all the more difficult since Ravenne 's daughter,Diane , is a virtuous beauty who sits as a model for Raphael ,no less ( Michele Mercier ,future Angélique Marquise des Anges )

Sernas wields the sword with gusto ,you've got two beauties for the price of one,the cruel patrician and the damsel in distress,so if you're not asking too much, you can save it for a rainy day.