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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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
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—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)