She as a symbolic figure of a femininity linked to “Reason of State.”
She, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and sister of Caesar the “Valentine” gets “used” by agreeing to horde plots and murders aimed at favoring immense political power in the setting of the Italian Renaissance. The motto of the Borgias AUT CAESAR AUT NIHIL, “either Cesar or nothing” utterly symbolizes the thirst for power this corrupt family exercised for many years, and the glass bottle – now empty – which contained the administered poison is the joyful weapon of this fragile and passionate woman.