Lucrezia Borgia
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Lucrezia Borgia was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.
Portrait by Dosso Dossi which is purported to depict Lucrezia, c. 1518
Purported portrait of Lucrezia as Saint Catherine of Alexandria in a fresco by Pinturicchio. The "Hall of the Saints" within the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican, c. 1494
Coin showing Giovanni Sforza
Duke Alfonso of Aragon depicted in a painting by Pinturicchio
Cesare Borgia
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Cesare Borgia was an Italian cardinal deacon and later a condottiero, as well as a member of the Spanish House of Borgia. He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and sibling to Lucrezia Borgi
Lucrezia Borgia
…and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Alfonso of Aragon was an illegitimate son of the King of Naples, and tradition has it that Lucrezia's brother Cesare may have had him murdered after his political value waned. Notorious tales about her family have cast Lucrezia as a femme fatale, a controversial role…
![Profile portrait of Cesare Borgia in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, c. 1500–1510 inscription CAES[AR] · BORGIA · VALENTINV[S]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Cesare_Borgia%2C_Duke_of_Valentinois.jpg/500px-Cesare_Borgia%2C_Duke_of_Valentinois.jpg)
Profile portrait of Cesare Borgia in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, c. 1500–1510 inscription CAES[AR] · BORGIA · VALENTINV[S]
A purported depiction of Cesare as a young boy, painted by Bernardino di Pinturicchio
Cesare Borgia leaving the Vatican (1877) by Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri. Oil on canvas.
Cesare Borgia's memorial stone