Lucrezia Borgia as brand of culture. For the whole of 2002 her controversial figure will be the focus of a full programme of cultural events. The "Anno Lucreziano" opened in Ferrara, the city where Lucrezia Borgia, on the 2nd of February 1502, married Duke Alfonso I D'Este. A feminine figure among the most celebrated of Renaissance Italy, demonised for her life full of torments and alleged poisonings, Lucrezia Borgia is now the object of an ambitious "recovery" operation.
Daughter of Cardinal Borgia, later a Pope, she arrives at Ferrara just 22, with two marriages already behind her, and she enters the environment of court befriending Ariosto, Bembo and Strozzi. She will die of childbirth in 1519, concluding her life in an air of sanctity.
The Municipality of Ferrara, with the Assessorship to Cultural Policies and the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara they put on the field a wide landscape of events. Among the most important, the staging (during July 2002) of "Amor nello specchio" by G.B. Andreini (1622), a theatrical text co-produced by the Municipality of Ferrara, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Associazione Santacristina, directed by Luca Ronconi and performance by Mariangela Melato.
This is not it however. Lucrezia Borgia will also be the protagonist of three new cartoon stories, which for the first time will see together Martin Mystere, Diabolik and Dago.
February.2002
The events
Ferrara (In Italian)
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