Lucrezia Borgia – A Renaissance Duchess (Part two)
Read part one here. Lucrezia’s long train now headed north in horrible winter weather, and they finally made their entry into the city of Bologna […]
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia – A Renaissance Duchess (Part one)
Lucrezia Borgia was born on 18 April 1480 in the fortress of Subiaco as the illegitimate daughter of Vannozza dei Cattanei and Cardinal Rodrigo de […]
Vannozza dei Cattanei – The Pope’s mistress
Rodrigo Borgia or Pope Alexander VI was Pope from 1492 until his death in 1503. Despite serving the church as a Cardinal and later Archbishop […]