In Popular Culture
In the 2009 video game Assassin's Creed II, the Orsi brothers were actually hired by Caterina Sforza, only to later turn on her and attempt to kidnap Ottaviano and Bianca.
In W Somerset Maugham's 1898 novel "The Making of a Saint", the events surrounding Girolamo and Caterina in Forli are described through the eyes of a political opponent.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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