Frommer's Italy 2016 by Eleonora Baldwin

Author:Eleonora Baldwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FrommerMedia
Published: 2015-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

With their lust for power and penchant for murder, the Borgias are still one of history’s most notoriously dysfunctional families, 500 years after their Renaissance heyday. Lucrezia was born into the clan in 1480, the illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, soon to be Pope Alexander VI. By the time she was 20, she had a child, allegedly fathered by her brother Cesare, and had been married twice—one husband fled for his life when the Pope decided Lucrezia needed to make a more politically advantageous alliance, another was strangled as he lay recovering from knife wounds (both attacks arranged by Cesare). With this less-than-sterling reputation, Lucrezia got a chilly reception when she arrived in Ferrara in 1500 as the new bride of Duke Alfonso d’Este. Soon, however, she proved herself to be cultured, a brilliant conversationalist, and an ardent patron of the arts. She is said to have carried on a passionate affair with the poet Pietro Bembo, but she was also known to be pious, a loving wife and attentive mother. She died just short of her 39th birthday after giving birth to her fifth child.

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