Lucrezia Borgia

:This article is about the historical person. Lucrezia Borgia is also the name Buffalo Bill gave to his gun.

Other Marriages

Second Marriage

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Alfonso V of Aragon (Duke of Bisceglie).

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Though at his first meeting with Alfonso, before the marriage took place, Cesare was very impressed by his good looks and nature, but it soon changed to jealousy and hatred. Cesare did not like Alfonso because Lucrezia was very happy with him and had, since her marriage to him, stopped giving Cesare as much attention. Also, Cesare himself had a bout of the French pox and a lot of scars remained on his face, even after recovery. This made him very conscious of his appearance, and so he started wearing masks and dressing in black. His own condition made him hate Alfonso of Aragon all the more, and once when the prince was paying them a visit in Rome, Cesare's men had attacked him during the night. To retaliate, Alfonso's men shot arrows at Cesare one day while he strolled in the garden. This infuriated Cesare, and he had his servant(s) strangle Alfonso while in the recovery room. Lucrezia and Alfonso had only one child, Rodrigo, who was destined to die before his mother in August 1512 at the age of thirteen.

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Third Marriage

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Alphonso d'Este (Prince of Ferrara).

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As stated in Mario Puzo's novel "The Family", after the death of her second husband, Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, wanted to arrange a third marriage. She was then married to her third husband, Alphonso d'Este (Prince of Ferrara). She gave her third husband a number of children and proved to be a respectable and accomplished Renaissance duchess, effectively rising above her questionable past and surviving the fall of the Borgias following her father's death. During her marriage to Alphonso she embarked on a (most likely platonic) love affair with the poet Pietro Bembo. She died on 24th June 1519 after a difficult pregnancy.

Related Topics:
Mario Puzo - Pietro Bembo

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(I am working on merging and rewritting a couple of copyrighted articles on her other marriages so that the new text can be posted here under the FDL)

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