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To: one_less who wrote (81031)6/7/2000 3:46:00 PM
From: Edwarda1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
It was a different time and a different set of sensibilities. You have to keep this in mind for the context.

OTOH, from what I have read of the film, it does not seem to hew very carefully to Farinelli's own life.

BTW, during the wars of succession in Persia, it was commonplace to take captured prepubescent boys and castrate them, then sell them into slavery.