The great man is one who can put into words the will of his age,

I'm looking at constructions of memory and history for school and one of the semi-tangental things this is leading to is a neat little collection of historical ironies from Spanish sources about Cesare's life/death. These are all factually true, as far as I can tell, which is... actually kind of funny after a while.

( ...but it need not be emplotted that way )

So I was bored.

( a stunningly visual tour-de-force! )

Although I did go into the series with preconceived notions about who Cesare was, I am very aware of how I am playing a particular character and not the image I have of the historical person. To make it easier for myself, I've been focusing on the fact that Cesare in this series is still sixteen, whereas most of the information I have been gathering on his life is from after he turned twenty-four. They're not the same person! There are strong similarities (otherwise I wouldn't have been able to app him), but there are also distinct differences in temperament and belief.

I took the Dante's Inferno Test for both of them and posted their results below. It actually sums up things pretty nicely and helped me get my thoughts together to explain it better. The first set of results are based off of the Cesare in camp. The second set is based off of what I know of the historical Cesare as an adult.

( gave me this ticket to heaven / it said to lie in the bed that you make )