Milo Manara
The Borgias: Power and incest, 2006
pencil, ink and watercolor on thin cardboard
57.5 x 46.5 cm
Original comic art created by Manara for "The Borgias: Power and Incest," published on page 34 of the vol. 2 from Mondadori in 2006. Based on texts by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Manara paints a saga with a great erotic-Shakespearean component, narrating, through anecdotes and legends, the intrigues, passions and most perverse secrets of the Borgia family and Pope Alexander VI.