Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (55 page)

Index

Adria, Bishop of

Agenensis, Cardinal

Agnadello, battle of (1509)

Agrimont, M. de

Alba, Duke of

Albret, Cardinal d’

Albret, Charlotte d’
see
Borgia, Charlotte

Albret, Jean d’

Aldobrandini, Cardinal

Aldobrandino, Ugo

Alègre, Yves d’

Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia; LB’s father): elected and enthroned; divides New World; powers; birth and background; character and qualities; fondness for LB; illegitimate children; passion for Giulia Farnese; religious piety; nepotism; and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza; and claims to Naples; and Juan Gandia’s marriage; leaves Rome in plague; Gonzagas seek favour from; relations with Giovanni Sforza; offended by Juan Gandia; dependence on women; Caterina Gonzaga appeals to for protection; alliance with Alfonso of Naples; conflicts with rivals; demands to Giulia and Adriana; and ransom demand for Giulia Farnese; retreats before French; painted by Pinturicchio; Dolfo disparages; and appointment of Juan Gandia as Captain General; and LB’s divorce from Giovanni; and Juan Gandia’s disappearance and death; rumoured incest with LB; accepts Jews; appropriates goods and money; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso Bisceglie; supports Louis ; accused of simony; appoints LB to Governorship of Spoleto; at Nepi; deprives rivals of status as papal vicars; poisoning attempts on; welcomes Cesare Borgia on return to Rome; exploits Ascanio Sforza’s downfall; nearly killed in whirlwind; and attack on Alfonso Bisceglie; and murder of Alfonso Bisceglie; resilience; promotes marriage of LB and Alfonso d’Este; negotiates LB’s marriage settlement with d’Este; celebrates LB’s marriage to Alfonso d’Este; LB intercedes with for Ercole’s plea for nuns; praises LB to Ferrarese; present at Cesare’s Vatican orgy; and LB’s dowry on marriage to Bisceglie; and LB’s departure for Ferrara; anxiety of LB’s marriage to d’Este; differences with Ercole over LB’s annual allowance; and LB’s illness and loss of child in Ferrara; and Orsini and Vitelli plot; on killing of Lorqua; death and burial; mistrusts French alliance; praises LB’s friendship with Ippolito d’Este; and appointment of new cardinals; and death of Giovanni Michiel; health worries

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