The Mask of Cesare Borgia

The Mask of Cesare Borgia
Directed by	Duilio Coletti
Written by	Niccolò Machiavelli (tale) Mario Pannunzio Piero Tellini Primo Zeglio Arrigo Benedetti Duilio Coletti
Produced by	Vittorio Vassarotti
Starring	Osvaldo Valenti Elsa De Giorgi Carlo Tamberlani
Cinematography	Jan Stallich
Edited by	Maria Rosada
Music by	Piero Giorgi
Production company	Vi-Va Film
Distributed by	Artisti Associati
Release date	27 September 1941
Running time	75 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Mask of Cesare Borgia (Italian: La maschera di Cesare Borgia) is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Osvaldo Valenti, Elsa De Giorgi and Carlo Tamberlani. Coletti asserted that the 1948 20th Century Fox film Prince of Foxes was a remake of his work, the American studio having bought the rights, although the latter film's source is credited as a novel of the same title by Samuel Shellabarger.

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Antonio Tagliolini and Enrico Verdozzi.

Cast

• Osvaldo Valenti as Cesare Borgia
• Elsa De Giorgi as Dianora
• Carlo Tamberlani as Jacopo Bentivoglio
• Enrico Glori as Sinistro dei Falchi
• Augusto Marcacci as Agapito
• Nerio Bernardi as Il padre di Jacopo
• Gildo Bocci as Ramiro d'Orca
• Renato Chiantoni as Un paggio
• Corrado De Cenzo as Michelazzo
• Lina Tartara Minora as Antonia
• Gina Cinquini
• Rolando Costantino
• Giovanni Dal Cortivo
• Antonietta Del Do
• Walter Grant
• Romano Karninki
• Achille Majeroni
• Antonio Marietti
• Renato Navarrini
• Egisto Olivieri
• Nico Pepe
• Evaristo Signorini
• Mario Siletti

Bibliography

• Alberto Anile. Orson Welles in Italy. Indiana University Press, 2013.

External links

• The Mask of Cesare Borgia at IMDb