History Manga / CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto

* {{Fainting}}:
** After the rather violent bullfight between Cesare and Henri, [[NonActionGuy Giovanni]], who did not even witness the fight, sees blood and faints.
** After their second fight following the melee, both Henri and Cesare faint from exhaustion and overheating. Cesare vomits as well.

*** Chronology-wise, Cesare remembers that when he was a young child sharing a room with his brother, he would let Juan cry so that their mother would come to their room, and enjoy her presence without having to ask for it - already a little manipulator.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The many students of the university, the people of Pisa, the Medici, the cardinals, the Borgia household, a few cameos from major players in Italy, France and Spain, not to mention the historical characters who are focused on in book 7.

* PetTheDog: Early books Giovanni can be quite unsufferable, but he does acknowledge that Angelo is doing excellent work at the construction site and is entitled to some pride about it - even coming to his defense about it.

* Angelo's mother and Clarice Orsini, Giovanni's, are given descriptions and flashbacks that say a lot about their personalities.
* Pedro Luis Borgia, duke of Gandia, war hero of the Reconquista and older half-brother to Cesare.

* ArtImitatesArt: When Cesare tells Lucrezia about inequality in the eyes of God, he invokes an image that is a semi identical copy of [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_de_la_Saint-Barth%C3%A9lemy#/media/Fichier:La_masacre_de_San_Bartolom%C3%A9,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_Dubois.jpg François Dubois's St Bartholomew's Day Massacre.]]

* ArtImitatesArt: When Cesare tells Lucrezia about inequality in the eyes of God, he invokes an image that is a semi identical copy of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/La_masacre_de_San_Bartolom%C3%A9%2C_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_Dubois.jpg/1280px-La_masacre_de_San_Bartolom%C3%A9%2C_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_Dubois.jpg François Dubois's St Bartholomew's Day Massacre.]]

* ArrangedMarriage: Lucrezia is currently betrothed to a young Spanish aristocrat.

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Cesare. Who else? Rodrigo Borgia also names ''himself'' after Alexander the Great.

* ArrangedMarriage: Lucrezia is currently betrothed to a young Roman aristocrat.

* {{Manchild}}: Giovanni, every once in a while. He initially expects everyone around him to bend backwards to obey him, acts like a little child when Draghignazzo berates him. While he's able to [[PolitenessJudo trade blows]] with Giuliano Della Rovere, the experience leaves him so scared he can barely walk, and he hides (literally) from Rodrigo Borgia after his brother betrayed him. This is still better than [[CharacterDevelopment the time he tried to evade a political responsibility by faking a tummyache]]. He's also bawling, snot and all, upon hearing of [[spoiler: his father's passing]] and it takes Rodrigo intervening to convince him to stay in Rome and fulfill his duties. Then again, he's only sixteen, so it makes some sense he would be more child than man.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Cesare and Henri's bullfight is essentially a debate on CulturalPosturing occasionally intercut with a punch. As Cesare points out, words are useless on someone like Henri. During their second fight, after the melee, they completely drop the

* WorthyOpponent: On Lorenzo's death bed, he and Savonarola admit to have begrudging respect for each other, despite their philosophies that could not be any different.

* InUniverseNickname: As in RealLife, ''The Maur'' for Ludovico Sforza, and ''The Tigress of Forli'' for his niece Caterina.

* AnalogyBackfire: One of Lorenzo de' Medici's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Establishing Character Moments]]. While in Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci gives Cesare a riddle: a handful of pawns are an army, and a bowl of nuts is as many cannonballs. How is it possible to take out all of the army in a single attack? By throwing the entire bowl at them. Cesare is childishly excited by the solution, but Lorenzo, confronted with the mess of all the spilled walnuts and pawns, asks instead how one can clean it all in a single swoop. Leonardo confesses that he has no solution to that riddle.

* AnalogyBackfire: One of Lorenzo de' Medici's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Establishing Character Moments]]. While in Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci gives Cesare a riddle: a handful of pawns are an army, and a bowl of nuts is a cannonball. How is it possible to take out all of the army in a single attack? By throwing the entire bowl at them. Cesare is childishly excited by the solution, but Lorenzo, confronted with the mess of all the spilled walnuts and pawns, asks instead how one can clean it all in a single swoop. Leonardo confesses that he has no solution to that riddle.

* AnalogyBackfire: One of Lorenzo de' Medici's [[CharacterEstablishingMoment Character Establishing Moments]]. While in Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci gives Cesare a riddle: a handful of pawns are an army, and a bowl of nuts is a cannonball. How is it possible to take out all of the army in a single attack? By throwing the entire bowl at them. Cesare is childishly excited by the solution, but Lorenzo, confronted with the mess of all the spilled walnuts and pawns, asks instead how one can clean it all in a single swoop. Leonardo confesses that he has no solution to that riddle.

* WomanScorned: Adriana clearly despises Vannozza Cattanei, and is scorned on behalf of her son her son at how Rodrigo sleeps with his wife.