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by Sarah Bradford


  Alexandrine Bulls

  Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (LB’s third husband): and LB’s marriage to Giovanni; father denies marriage to LB; marriage to LB; with Ludovico Sforza; meets LB; character and interests; and LB’s arrival in Ferrara; marriage relations; presented with Pope’s sword and cap; meets Louis ; visits sick LB; hostility to Strozzi; leaves Ferrara during plagues; attitude to Cesare; tour of European courts; and Bembo’s relations with LB; and Francesco Gonzaga; and father’s impending death; returns to Ferrara; succeeds to dukedom; administration and rule; improvements and decoration in Ferrara; seeks Cesare’s release from prison in Spain; LB’s correspondence with; and feud between brothers Giulio and Ippolito; Alberto Pio stirs up trouble with Francesco Gonzaga; absence on pilgrimage; and Congiura conspiracy rebuffed by Venice; syphilis; submits to Julius ; blames LB for miscarriage; alliance with Louis XII; on Cesare’s death; keeps birth of son Ercole secret from Gonzaga; and murder of Ercole Strozzi; defends Ferrara against Julius II’s forces; appointed Gonfalonier of Church; Julius II’s hostility to; in war against Venice; excommunicated and deprived of duchy; injured at La Bastia; keeps children in Ferrara; victory at Ravenna (1512); clemency towards prisoners; seeks reconciliation with Julius ; portrait plaque; attends Leo X’s coronation; Leo X suspends edict on; and Leo’s resumption of war against Ferrara; recovers territorial possessions; relations with Francis I of France; keeps Lent; makes own pottery; dislikes Giovanni Borgia; absence in Abano; attitude to offenders; returns to manage Ferrara

  Alfonso I d’Este – cont. during LB’s illness; visit to Francis I in Paris; arrives home from Paris; and LB’s final illness and death

  Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara

  Alfonso, Duke of Bisceglie: marriage to LB; leaves Rome for Naples; returns to LB; in Cesare Borgia’s Rome procession; and Louis XII’s claim on Naples; complains of judgement against Beatrice d’Aragona; attacked and wounded at St Peter’s; murdered; LB mourns; and LB’s dowry

  Alfonso, King of Naples (formerly Duke of Calabria)

  Alidosi, Cardinal

  Alviano, Bartolommea d’

  Alviano, Bartolommeo d’

  Amelia, Agapito da

  Anguillara

  Anjou dynasty: claim to throne of Naples

  Anne de Bretagne, Queen of France

  Annunzio, Gabriele d’

  Anselmo, Fra

  Aragon, kingdom of

  Aragona, Eleonora d’, see Eleonora d’Este

  Aragona, Federigo d’

  Aragona, Giovanna d’, Duchess of Amalfi

  Aragona, Giulia d’

  Aragona (Sforza), Isabella d’, Duchess of Bari

  Aragona, Cardinal Luigi d’; death

  Aranda, Pedro de, Bishop of Calahorra

  Aretino, Pietro: I Ragionamenti

  Arienti, Giovanni Sabadino degli; Colloquium ad Ferrarem urbem

  Ariosto,Alfonso

  Ariosto, Ludovico; La Cassaria; Orlando Furioso

  Ariosto, Rainaldo

  Artes, Juan

  Artigianova, Gian de (Gian Cantore)

  Atri, Jacopo d’

  Bacchelli, Riccardo

  Baglioni family

  Baglioni, Gian Paolo

  Banchi, Ippolito da li

  banquets

  Barbara the Spaniard

  Barone, il (jester)

  Bartolommeo, Fra

  Bassanello

  Bastia, La

  Bayard, Chevalier

  Beatrice d’Aragona, Queen of Hungary

  Bellini, Giovanni

  Bellonci, Maria

  Belriguardo (villa)

  Bembo, Bernardo

  Bembo, Carlo

  Bembo, Pietro: romance and correspondence with LB; and LB’s grief at father’s death parting from LB; as secretary to Leo X and birth and death of LB’s son; moves to Urbino; Gli Asolani

  Bendedei, Jacobo

  Bendedeo, Girolamo, Prior of San Giorgio

  Bendedeo, Niccolò

  Bentivoglio family

  Bentivoglio, Annibale

  Bentivoglio, Costanza

  Bentivoglio, Ercole

  Bentivoglio, Ginevra

  Bentivoglio, Giovanni

  Bentivoglio, Laura

  Bentivoglio, Lucrezia

  Berlinguer, Hector

  Bernardino of Siena, San

  Bisceglie, Duke of see Alfonso, Duke of Bisceglie

  Bisceglie, Rodrigo (LB’s son): allowance; in LB’s will; given cape; sent to Castel Sant’Angelo; upbringing and inheritance; flees from Rome with Cesare; in Bari; death; affairs wound up

  Boccaccio, Giovanni Andrea; Cento novelle

  Boiarda, Sister Laura, abbess of San Bernardino

  Boiardo, Giovanni, Count of Scandiano

  Boiardo, Matteo Maria

  Bologna: LB travels through; Julius II takes over; Bentivoglio return to

  Bologna, Antonio da

  Bonaccioli, Lodovico

  Bonfiglio, Baldassare

  Bonleo, Giovanni Batista

  Borgia family (de Borjas): background; dynastic ambitions; wealth; genealogy sent to Ercole d’Este; lands in Italy ; poisonings

  Borgia, Angela (Dona Angela): El Prete praises; accompanies LB to Ferrara; with LB in Ferrara; illness; clothes; and Francesco Gonzaga; and d’Este family feud; gives birth; marriage with Pio da Sassuolo; comforts LB over Cesare’s death; returns to Ferrara; pregnancy and child by Pio; keeps LB company during pregnancy; LB asks Francesco Gonzaga to help; meets Prospero Colonna in Ferrara

  Borgia, Camilla Lucrezia (Cesare’s daughter)

  Borgia, Cesare: appearance; Alexander VI’s fondness for; name; character and qualities; Church preferments; relations with LB; at proxy marriage of LB and Giovanni Sforza; at LB’s marriage to Giovanni; dress; reproves brother Juan Gandia; Juan Gandia pleads for help to return to Italy; and Caterina Gonzaga; supports Alexander VI,; escapes from Charles VIII; portrait; relations with Sancia; and LB’s divorce from Giovanni; and Juan Gandia’s disappearance; nominated legate for Federigo’s coronation in Naples; pursues vendetta against Orsini; dynastic and political ambitions; proposed marriage to Carlotta of Aragon; devotion to LB; and LB’s second marriage to Alfonso Bisceglie; participates in bullfight; leaves for France; Louis XII subsidizes; titles; growing power; syphilis; marriage to Charlotte d’Albret; with Louis XII on campaign in Italy; triumphal procession in Rome; relations with Fiammetta de‘Michelis; suspected of attack on Alfonso Bisceglie; and murder of Alfonso Bisceglie; and internal family conflicts; accused of incest with LB; ruthlessness; retinue; orders murder of Troche; and LB’s third marriage to Alfonso d’Este; military conquests; returns from Naples campaign; visits Nepi and Civita Castellani; orgy in Vatican; Savelli attacks; receives Este brothers in Rome on LB’s marriage; and daughter’s inheritance; and LB’s journey to Ferrara; relations and putative children with Drusilla; suspected of capturing Dorotea Malatesta; attacks and captures Urbino; and LB’s illness in Ferrara; takes Camerino; visits Louis XII in Milan; takes over Church lands; League formed against; kills Lorqua; coup against condottiere conspirators; allowance settled; Louis XII obstructs; father confers rewards and estates on; falls sick; and rumours of father’s poisoning; plunders father’s apartments on death; and election of Alexander VI’s successor; LB’s concern for; strengthens alliance with French; moves to Nepi after father’s death; attacked by Orsini after death of Pius ; Julius II’s attitude to; confined by Julius II; imprisonment in Spain; escapes from La Mota; killed

  Borgia, Charlotte (née d’Albret): marriage to Cesare; daughter by Cesare; and Cesare’s imprisonment in Spain

  Borgia, Francesco, Cardinal of Cosenza

  Borgia, Geronima

  Borgia, Giovanni (‘Infans Romanus’): birth; Alexander requests ‘state’ for from Louis XII; parentage; given Macerata estate; Camerino lordship granted to; given cape; sent to Castel Sant’Angelo; upbringing; flees from Rome with Cesare; shares tutor with Rodrigo Bisceglie; Alfonso d’Este dislikes; in Paris


  Borgia, Girolamo (Cesare’s son)

  Borgia, Joana (Alexander VI’s sister)

  Borgia, Jofre: birth; Alexander VI’s relations with; marriage to Sancia; in Naples; returns to Rome; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso; detained in Castel Sant’Angelo; at Nepi with Alexander; in Cesare Borgia’s Rome procession; Aragonese sympathies; accompanies Cesare to Nepi; death

  Borgia, Juan see Gandia, Juan Borgia Duke of

  Borgia y Navarro, Juan, Cardinal of Monreale

  Borgia, Lucrezia: birth; appearance and dress; father’s fondness for; education and upbringing; character and qualities; name; relations with brother Cesare; religious piety; and father’s ambitions; betrothed to Procida; inheritance from Pedro Luis; marriage to Giovanni Sforza; requests jewellery and clothes from Juan in Spain; in Pesaro; divorce from Giovanni; portraits; deteriorating relations with Giovanni; meets Francesco Gonzaga; meets Sancia in Rome; takes refuge in convent; proposed Neapolitan marriage; second marriage to Alfonso Bisceglie; sexual profligacy; suspected of incest; supposed child; influence with Alexander VI; early pregnancies; and Alfonso’s departure from Rome; appointed Governor of Spoleto; celebrates Cesare’s marriage; birth of son Rodrigo; as ruler of Sermoneta; supports Alfonso against Cesare; and attacks on and death of Alfonso; exiled to Nepi; third marriage (to Alfonso d’Este) planned; confides in Vincenzo Giordano; secret correspondence from Nepi; marries Alfonso d’Este; marriage settlement with Ferrara; as father’s regent in Vatican; Ercole appeals to for help in releasing Sister Lucia; present at Cesare’s Vatican orgy; reception in Ferrara; books; meets and entertains Ferrara delegation for marriage; journey to Ferrara; attendants and ladies; hair washing and beauty treatment; El Prete reports on; meets Alfonso d’Este; meets father – in – law Ercole; arrival and reception in Ferrara; marriage relations with

  Borgia, Lucrezia – cont. d’Este; life and amusements in Ferrara; under scrutiny in Ferrara; pregnancies by d’Este; relations with Isabella d’Este; and Cesare’s coup in Urbino; illness and recovery in Ferrara; stillborn daughter; allowance agreed; and father’s death; rivalry with Isabella d’Este; eulogized; reliance on Ercole Strozzi; romance and correspondence with Bembo; friendship with Ippolito d’Este; and Cesare’s military ambitions; fevers; Louis XII disapproves of marriage to d’Este; concern for Cesare; and son Rodrigo’s upbringing; parting from Bembo; leaves Ferrara during plague; miscarriages; relations with Ercole d’Este; relations and correspondence with Francesco Gonzaga ; and Ercole’s impending death; ambitions to be Duchess of Ferrara; as Duchess of Ferrara; administrative duties in Ferrara; household; musical interests; and Cesare’s imprisonment in Spain; correspondence with Alfonso; birth and death of son Alexandro; and d’Este family feud (‘Congiura’); improves and decorates rooms and buildings in Ferrara; trains and prepares young Ferrarese girls for marriage; and Alfonso’s absence on pilgrimage; and Lucrezia Bentivoglio; learns of Cesare’s escape; new year carnivals; and Cesare’s death; and birth of son Ercole; apartments; appeals to Gonzaga to apprehend Don Martino’s killer; and war against Venice; pawns jewellery; congratulates Francesco Gonzaga on liberation from Venice prison; and papal war against Ferrara; appeals to Francesco Gonzaga for help in papal wars; and evacuation of sons from Ferrara; pleads with Isabella to intercede with Francesco Gonzaga; entertains French forces in Ferrara; health cure at San Bernardino convent; orders defence of Ferrara against papal forces; and death of son Rodrigo; entertains Prospero Colonna; view of Leo X; birth of later children; household management; improved relations with Isabella; health decline; maintains interest in Cesare’s children; merciful nature; and Alfonso’s absence in Paris; and mother’s death; and Francesco Gonzaga’s death; final illness and death

  Borgia, Cardinal Ludovico

  Borgia, Ludovico, Prior of Santa Eufemia

  Borgia, Luisa (or Louise; Cesare’s daughter by Charlotte)

  Borgia, Maria Enriques (wife of Juan)

  Borgia, Rodrigo (Alexander VI’s son)

  Borja, Cardinal Alonso de see Calixtus III, Pope

  Borja – Llancol, Juan de

  Boschetti family

  Boschetti, Albertino

  Boschetti, Roberto

  Boschetti, Sigismondo

  Boschetto, Galeazzo

  Boswell, James

  Bracciano

  Brandolinus Lippi, Raphael

  Bresciano, Bartolommeo

  Brognolo, Fioramonte

  Brugi, Benedetto

  Burchard, Johannes: on death of Juan Gandia; on death of Perotto; on Roman punishments and torture; on LB’s marriage to Alfonso Bisceglie; on attempted poisoning of Alexander VI; organizes Cesare’s triumphal procession; on capture of Ascanio Sforza; on Alfonso Bisceglie’s attackers; on LB’s marriage to Alfonso d’Este; reports Borgias’ misbehaviour in Vatican; on LB’s reception of Ferrara delegates; on Alexander’s burial

  Byron, George Gordonh Baron

  Caetani family

  Caetani, Guglielmo

  Cagnolo, Niccolo, on LB

  Calacagnino, Alfonso

  Calandra, Silvestro

  Calderon, Pedro (‘Perotto’)

  Calixtus III, Pope

  Calmeta, Vincenzo

  Cambrai, League of

  Camerino

  Camerino, Ercole da

  Camposampiero, Lodovico ‘Vigo’ di

  Canale, Carlo

  Capello, Polo

  Capilupo, Benedetto

  Capodimonte

  Cappello, Francesco

  Capua, Cardinal of

  Caracciolo, Giovanni Battista

  Caraffa, Cardinal

  Cardona, Juan de

  Cardona, Ramón

  Carlotta of Aragon: proposed as bride for Cesare Borgia

  Carpi

  Carri, Francesco

  Casalivio, Luis

  Casanova, Jacopo

  Casio, Geronimo, of Bologna

  Casola (Mantuan envoy at imperial court)

  Cassina, la (comedy)

  Castellar, Juan

  Castello, Francesco

  Castiglione, Baldassare: The Courtier

  Castile

  Castre – Pinos, Juan de

  Catalans

  Catherine of Aragon, Queen of Henry VIII

  Catherine of Siena, St

  Catherinella negra

  Cattanei, Vannozza (LB’s mother): as Alexander VI’s mistress; marriages; Juan Gandia visits; on attack on Alfonso; on burial of Alfonso; accompanies Cesare to Nepi; death; letters to LB and Ippolito d’Este; career and circumstances

  Cattaneo, Gian Lucido: on Giovanni – LB marriage; on Cesare Borgia’s ambitions; on Cesare’s marriage to Charlotte; and LB’s impending third marriage

  Cavalleri, Bartolommeo de‘: and negotiations for LB – Alfonso d’Este marriage; and Ferrante d’Este’s debts; on Louis XII’s reaction to Alexander’s death

  Cecharella, Madonna

  Centelles, Querubi de

  Cento

  Cerveteri

  Cervillon, Juan

  Cesarini, Gian Andrea

  Cesarini, Jeronima

  Cesena

  Cestarello, Sigismondo

  Cestatello, Alfonso

  Châlons, Archdeacon of

  Charles I, King of Spain (Emperor Charles V)

  Charles VII, King of France

  Charles VIII, King of France: invades Italy; claim to Naples; enters Rome; outwitted by Alexander VI; unpopularity in Naples; character and appearance; quits Italy; death; Ferrante d’Este serves

  Charlotte d’Albret see Borgia, Charlotte

  Charlotte, Princess of France

  Chaumont, Charles d’Amboise, seigneur de (French governor of Milan)

  Chigi, Lorenzo

  ‘Cingano, il’ (‘The Gypsy’)

  Civita Castellana

  Claude, Queen of Francis I of France

  Clement VIII, Pope

  Colonna family

  Colonna, Fabrizio

  Colonna, Francesco

  Colonna, Prospero

/>   Columba of Rieti, Sister

  Columbus, Christopher

  Comascho, Gabriel

  Comasco, Girolamo

  Contrari, Beatrice de’

  Contrari, Diana, Countess

  Contrari, Uguccione dei

  Corberan (ally of Borgias)

  Cordoba, Gonsalvo de

  Corella, Don Miguel de (Michelotto)

  Corneto, Cardinal Adriano da

  Correggio, Niccolò da: employs El Prete; in Ferrara party to meet LB; praises Isabella Gonzaga; and LB in Ferrara; takes LB’s message to Alfonso d’Este; and Alfonso’s attempt to heal breach between Ippolito and Giulio d’Este; composes eclogue; and Alberto Pio’s troublemaking; accompanies Alfonso to Venice; and Gonzaga’s protection of Giulio d’Este; given Giulio’s palazzo; present at LB’s meeting with Lucrezia Bentivoglio

  Costabili, Antonio

  Costabili, Beltrando: on LB’s departure for Ferrara; and Alexander VI’s view of Cesare; in Rome as Ferrarese ambassador; on Alfonso d’Este; and dispute over LB’s allowance; and LB’s stillborn daughter; Alexander praises LB’s friendship with Ippolito d’Este to; on Alexander’s illness; Alfonso writes to pleading for Cesare’s release; and attack on Giulio d’Este

  Cotignola (county)

  Cotrone, Marchioness of

  courtesans

  Croce, Giorgio della

  Croce, Ottaviano della

  Cursetta (courtesan)

  Cusatro, Amato

  Desprats, Francesc (papal nuncio)

  Desprez, Josquin

  Dianti, Laura

  Dickens, Charles

  Dolfo, Floriano

  Dominican Order

  Dossi, Dosso

  Dragoni, Jacopo

  Drusilla (Cesare’s lover)

  Eleonora d’Este (d’Aragona), Duchess of Ferrara

  Elisabetta da Montefeltro, Duchess of Urbino: and attack on Alfonso Bisceglie; as host to LB on journey to Ferrara; qualities; and Dorotea Malatesta; at LB’s wedding; in Mantua; and Cesare’s capture of Urbino; widowed; praised in Ercole Pio’s eclogue; takes refuge in Ferrara; makes formal visit to LB

 

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