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Angel or Demon, Lucrezia Borgia (1480 - 1519)

Lucrezia Borgia is one of the female characters more rivers of ink have caused. A life involved in assassinations, plots, and forbidden relationships mysteriously conceived children created a legendary character.

A pawn for Borgia Lucrezia Borgia

was born in Subiaco in April 1480. It was the third baby, the first child of the relationship between Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia and his court Vanozza Catanei. Her gender made her a pawn in the service of his father's political alliances. But without any hesitation, Rodrigo had no trouble to make and unmake the marriages of his daughter at will as the political momentum and power needs.

First marriage, first move

In 1493, after being elected as Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia married his little 13 years with Giovanni Sforza. This created a powerful alliance with Milan. During the first years of marriage of Lucrezia and Giovanni Borgia Pope grew its power to the point of view as useless their relationship with the Sforza family. Alexander VI no longer needed, so I decided to break the marriage of his daughter whom used in new political and matrimonial alliances.

then began a journey to get rid of the unfortunate Giovanni. In an attempt to murder Caesar, Lucrezia's brother helped to abort it was a definite marriage annulment process in which Giovanni was pressured to sign a document declaring his own impotence.

In the period of the process of annulment of their marriage, lived Lucrecia cloistered in a convent, isolated from the world. He communicated with his father through a messenger. It was in this period that Lucrecia became pregnant without ever came to ascertain the paternity of the child; episode would help opponents of Alexander VI to create a black legend about his daughter.

second marriage, second play

At age 18, Lucretia was handed over to Alfonso of Aragon, closing a major partnership that eventually also prove unhelpful to the interests of the Borgias. Having conceived a child, the path of marriage annulment held his first marriage was not might use. The murder was the solution.

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Over the years that Lucrecia was given to these two marriages was merely a puppet at the power of that family who had arrived from Valencia the power of the Papal States, which did not want to undo. At this time, the pope and his family was surrounded by many detractors and enemies who used to Lucretia as a target for all the anger. Slander had no problems calling it the young woman had committed adultery and incest with her father and brother. Despite all the terrible accusations fell on Lucrecia never could comprovar, the image of sinful and manipulative woman accompanied her throughout her life.

The shower buonna

time after being widowed, Alexander VI appointed his daughter administrator of the Vatican, despite criticism of his youth, inexperience and poor reputation.

Borgia was then designed a new marriage for Lucrezia. Completely stained his image, had to hand made in the family coffers to convince the Este family to marry one of his sons, named Alfonso, with the young Lucretia.

Lucrecia On this occasion he had the chance to get away from the corruption that enveloped the family and try to start a new life with her new husband who trusted her to act as regent of the Duchy of Ferrara their long absences. Lucretia was known to win the love of the people who gave him the affectionate nickname of buonna shower. At that time might act as patron of the arts became a true Renaissance woman praised by Titian, who was his muse, and many poets.

Lucrecia had five children with Duke of Ferrara and lived his last years in peace being a good wife and a duchess. It was the birth of her fifth child, who survived a few days, which led to the grave. Puerperal fever ended with a life of Lucretia. He was 39.

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