Christina’s Reviews > The Borgias: Power and Fortune > Status Update

had I known the Lannisters were based on the Borgias, I would have read this a literal decade ago (but also Jamie and Cersei being based on a real life pair of incestuous siblings is… something)

I just can’t believe Catholic school glosses over this entire chunk of history. There literally were openly gay popes, de facto married popes, popes with multiple mistresses (who acknowledged all of the children they produced with said mistresses), popes who married their children into foreign royalty for personal gain, popes committing badly-obscured murder of their political enemies… Ora et Labora I guess