Sophie Swerts Knudsen

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Imagine a six year old girl, trying hard to create a fairytale with the words she just learned to write: tongue in cheek, legs dangling from her chair, holding an old fashioned ink pen leaving dark blue stains on her fingers. That was me! All through childhood and early teen years, I scribbled fairytales on pieces of paper, created the start of an overly sugar-like romantic Irish drama, and wrote my brothers and friends’ essays for school. The passion for fairytales, unusual stories and especially history never left me,

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Cesare Borgia’s Sword: ‘the Queen of Swords’

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  • 19 November 2024

Cesare Borgia's sword is justifiably named La Regina delle Spade or The Queen of Swords, and she is a masterpiece of Renaissance craftsmanship....

Under the Same Shadow: How the Borgias’ Black Legend Tainted...

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  • 19 November 2024

Spit out by many and hailed by others, Machiavelli is a man whose book, The Prince, has been scrutinized by the Church,...

The Life and Times of Cesare Borgia. Following in the...

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  • 21 May 2023

It is odd to realize that nine years ago, the ‘dubious’ fictional tv-series ‘The Borgias’ unleashed in me an insatiable curiosity about...