Pinctoris, Jacopo, 15
Pinturicchio, Bernardino, 51–2
Pio da Carpi, Alberto, 237, 243, 252–3,
Pio da Sassuolo, Alessandro, 251–2, 266, 283
Pio, Ercole, 275
Pistofilo, Bonaventura, 149, 348, 355–9
Pitigliano, Count of, 29
Pius III, Pope (Francesco Piccolomini), 203, 208–9
plague: in Ferrara, 208, 236–8;
in Modena, 237
Poccino, Paolo, 235
Poggio, Cristoforo, 68
poison and poisoning, 193
Portius, Hieronymus, 14
Poto, Gaspar, 88
Pozzi, Gian Luca, 123, 128–9, 131, 137, 140, 147–8, 175, 177, 198, 255, 273
Procida, Don Gaspar de, 24, 28, 58
Prosperi, Bernardino di: reports to Isabella on LB’s activities, 159, 165–6, 168–72, 183;
on Guidobaldo of Urbino’s flight, 173;
on LB’s pregnancies, 174, 176–7, 210, 268–9, 360, 363;
on LB’s allowance, 184; on LB’s life in Ferrara, 185;
on LB at death of Alexander VI, 198–9;
on plague in Ferrara, 208, 236;
on Ercole’s death, 229;
on LB’s accession as Duchess of Ferrara, 230;
on corruption under Ercole, 232;
on building of passageways in Ferrara, 233;
on Ferrara affairs under Alfonso and LB, 234–5;
on d’Este feud in Ferrara, 245, 250, 256;
on attack on Giulio d’Este, 247;
and Alfonso d’Este’s absence on pilgrimage, 255;
on Alfonso actions after Congiura conspiracy, 260;
on LB’s treatment of Lucrezia Bentivoglio, 264;
on Angela Borgia, 266;
on LB’s grief at death of Cesare, 270;
on new year celebrations in Ferrara, 274;
praises Ariosto’s La Cassaria, 275;
on LB’s children, 276, 295;
on disputes between Alfonso d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 278;
on murder of Ercole Strozzi, 282;
on Ercole Strozzi’s marriage to Barbara Torelli, 284;
on Ercole d’Este’s childhood, 294;
LB sends to Francesco Gonzaga, 297;
on French troops in Ferrara, 306;
on Alfonso’s victory at La Bastia, 307;
disapproves of LB’s entertaining French troops, 308;
on LB’s health stay at San Bernardino, 310;
seeks favours from Isabella d’Este, 313;
on Ippolito d’Este’s comforting LB on death of son Rodrigo, 319;
on Alfonso d’Este’s return to Ferrara, 320–21;
on Julius II, 323;
on Costabili’s entertaining Prospero Colonna in Ferrara, 324;
on LB’s women taking veil, 328–9;
correspondence with Isabella d’Este, 329;
on tilting in Ferrara, 336;
on Alfonso’s building improvements, 339–40;
on clerical behaviour, 341;
on LB’s worsening health, 343, 347;
and LB’s anger at Giovanni Borgia, 344;
on Alfonso’s administrative failings, 348;
on LB/Alfonso’s mutual love, 363;
on LB’s final illness, 364–5
Publica, Bernardino della, 221
Pucci, Lorenzo, 34–5
Pucci, Puccio, 34
Putti, Dalida de’, 235
Ramires, Pedro, 211
Ramón, Guillen, 136
Rampino, Alfonso, 346
Rangoni, Count Guido, 302–3
Ranuccio degli Ottoni, 136
Ranuzzi, Battista, 217
Raphael Sanzio, 340
Raphaele of Varese, Fra, 269–70
Ravenna, battle of (1512), 311, 313, 316
Regazzi da San Secondo, Antonio (‘il Milanese’), 248
Remi, Opizo (or Obizzo) da, 348, 355
Remolins, Francesc, 108, 137, 175–6
Riario, Cardinal, 83
Rimini, Bishop of, 40
Rinaldo d’Este, Niccolò di, 314
Roberti, Ercole de’, 231
Roberti, Gherardo de’, 254, 259–60, 262
Rodrigo, Duke of Bisceglie (LB’s son): birth and christening, 82;
childhood, 97;
future discussed on mother’s marriage to d’Este, 113–14;
created Duke of Sermoneta, 114;
LB leaves on departure for Ferrara, 131
Rohan, Cardinal de, 304
Romagna: Borgias seek to control, 81–2, 85, 211;
LB travels through, 145
Romana, Samaritana, 234
Romano, Gian Cristoforo, 217
Rome: as centre of Christendom, 12;
rebuilding and improvement, 12;
plague in, 33;
Charles VIII enters, 49;
Cesare Borgia’s triumphal procession in, 84
Rossetti, Biagio, 231
Rovere, Galeotto Franciotti della, Cardinal of San Pietro in Vincula, 259
Rovere, Giovanna della, 182
Rovere, Giovanni Maria della, 182
Rovere, Giuliano della see Julius II, Pope
Rubiera, Franceschino Boccacci da, 259, 262
Rucellai, Nannina, 17
Ruini, Carlo, 284
Sacerdote, Gustavo, 136
Saluzzo, Ricciarda da, 153
San Leo (fortress), 180–81
Sancho (LB’s major-domo), 167, 239
Sancia of Aragon: marriage to Jofre Borgia, 31, 37;
in Naples, 48, 332;
returns to Rome, 53–4;
appearance, 54;
behaviour, 54;
relations with Cesare Borgia, 54, 72, 74–5;
witnesses conversion of Jews, 70;
and LB’s marriage to Alfonso, 71, 73–5;
Alexander sends to Naples, 80;
affair with Cesare Borgia ends, 87;
favours Burgundian in duel, 87;
and killing of brother Alfonso, 90–91;
affair with Ippolito d’Este, 192;
accompanies Prospero Colonna to Naples, 203;
and Rodrigo Bisceglie’s upbringing, 204
Sanseverino, Cardinal, 30, 47, 107, 312
Sanseverino, Galeazzo da (Gran Scudero), 301–2, 357–8
Santa Croce, Jacopo di, 193
Santa Praxede, Cardinal of, 129
Sanudo, Marin: on LB’s divorce, 58;
on death of Perotto, 68;
on forced conversion of Jews, 70;
on Ascanio Sforza in Rome, 77;
on Alexander VI’s violent threats, 78;
on Alexander’s accident and recovery, 88–9;
on Borgia contingent for journey to Ferrara, 137;
and Cesare’s abduction of Dorotea Malatesta, 143;
on LB’s efforts to help Cesare, 202;
and Alfonso’s view of Cesare, 210;
on Duke Ercole’s extortions, 231;
on LB’s reaction to Cesare’s death, 270;
and Alfonso’s actions in papal war, 298;
on excommunication of Alfonso, 298;
on LB’s preparations to evacu-ate Ferrara, 299;
on Ercole d’Este’s childhood illness, 303;
on Julius II’s hostility to Michelotto, 304;
on Julius’s threatening Ferrara, 305;
on death of Julius, 323;
on Pigna’s mission in Venice, 327, 334
Saraceni, Gherardo, 112, 119, 128, 137, 140, 148
Sassuolo, 306
Savelli family, 2
Savelli, Silvio, 122–3
Scalona, Gian Carlo, 53, 55, 60–61
Schiavi, Giorgio, 61–2
Senese, Elisabetta, 167, 184, 214, 234
Serafino, Count Alexandra, 363
Seregni, Giangiorgio, 197–8
Sermide, 304
Sermoneta: LB appointed ruler, 84, 94
Sestola, Girolamo da (‘Coglia’), 234
Sforza, Alessandro, 27
Sforza, Anna (Alfonso d’Este’s first wife), 149
Sforza, Cardinal Ascanio: and brother Ludovico’s ambitions, 3;
on Alexander VI’s palace, 13–14;
and Alexander VI’s election to papacy, 25;
and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza, 25–8, 30, 124;
and Giovanni’s relations with Alexander VI, 36–7;
leaves Rome, 42;
joins Colonna, 44;
intercedes for captured Giulia and Adriana, 47;
Ludovico Sforza reproves, 48;
and Giovanni’s marriage relations, 53;
and LB’s divorce from Giovanni, 57, 59, 66;
suspected of killing Juan Gandia, 64;
and proposed Neapolitan marriage for LB, 65;
and Alexander’s negotiation with Naples, 71;
and LB’s marriage to Alfonso, 72;
courts LB, 77;
leaves Rome for Nettuno, 79;
Alexander takes Nepi castle from, 81;
and Louis XII’s campaign in Italy, 81;
captured and imprisoned, 86
Sforza, Beatrice (née d’Este), 101
Sforza, Bianca Maria, 124
Sforza, Camilla d’Aragona (wife of Costanzo), 27
Sforza, Caterina (Riario), 83, 85, 94, 145
Sforza, Costanzo, Count of Cotignola, 27
Sforza, Galeazzo, 283, 285, 289
Sforza, Gian Galeazzo, 3
Sforza, Giovanni: marriage to LB, 25–30, 34, 42–3, 144;
leaves Rome in plague, 33;
and access to Alexander VI, 35–7, 52–3;
in Pesaro, 40, 144;
divorce from LB, 50, 59, 64–6, 103, 199;
deteriorating marriage relations, 53, 56–9;
flees from Rome to Pesaro, 55;
suspected of impotency, 59–60, 67;
suspected of killing Juan Gandia, 64;
deprived of status as papal vicar, 81;
Cesare Borgia plans destruction of, 93;
Cesare Borgia drives from Pesaro, 102;
excluded from Ferrara, 114;
exile in Venice, 145;
returns to Pesaro after Alexander VI’s death, 202
Sforza, Ludovico (‘il Moro’), Duke of Milan: conflict with Gian Galeazzo, 3;
and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza, 25, 26–8;
ridicules Alexander VI, 47–8;
letter from Giovanni Sforza, 52;
fears breach with Alexander VI, 56;
and Giovanni’s divorce from LB, 57, 59, 66;
captures Cesare Borgia’s messenger, 79;
in war against French, 85;
death, 86;
marriage to Beatrice, 101;
Ippolito d’Este stays with, 137–8;
defeat (1500), 154;
grants Bari to Isabella d’Aragona, 317
Sforza, Massimiliano, 314, 322, 335
Sinigallia, 182
Sixtus IV, Pope, 23
Soderini, Bishop of Florence, 94
sodomy, 69
Soriano, battle of (1496), 56
Spagnoli, Tblomeo, 287, 321–2, 342
Spain: and division of New Worlds, 12, 30;
military support for Alexander VI, 55;
expels Jews, 300;
supports Julius II in papal war, 310;
alliance with Leo X, 327
Spoleto: LB appointed Governor, 79–80, 120;
Alfonso reunited with LB in, 81
Strozzi, Costanza, 283
Strozzi, Ercole: celebrates LB’s arrival in Ferrara, 186, 188;
character, 187;
as LB’s confidant and go-between, 187, 214, 216, 220, 241, 274, 278–81;
Alfonso disfavours and dismisses, 233, 274;
LB asks Gonzaga to favour, 265;
poem on Cesare’s death, 271;
marriage to Barbara Torelli, 273;
murdered, 282–5;
poems printed, 332
Strozzi, Lorenzo: reports on Francesco
Gonzaga to LB, 220;
dismissed as seneschal, 234–5;
and death of LB’s baby son, 241;
marriage to Costanza, 251, 283;
and Duke Ercole’s death, 283;
and Barbara Torelli, 285, 289;
as LB’s go-between, 286, 298–9, 321;
supports LB against Isabella, 288;
and Gonzaga’s wish for LB to come to Mantua, 308
Taglia, Battista da, 62
Tamburino, Ricciardetto, 235
Tartufo, Rizo del, 169
Tebaldeo, Antonio, 186, 214, 222, 233, 235, 265, 275, 283, 326, 332
Tebaldi, Jacopo de, 318
Theodora, Madonna (of Ferrara court), 165
Theseo, Fra, 46–7
Thomaso, Fra, 341
Thus, Abraham, 300–301
Titian, 340
Torelli, Barbara, 222–3, 251, 273–4, 282–5, 289
Tormelli, Thomasino, 66
Tremouille, Louis de, 345, 357
Trevisan, Domenico, 297
Trissino, Giangiorgio, 186, 331
Trivulzio, Gian-Giacopo, 352
Troche, Francesco, 98, 100, 104, 173, 175–6, 179;
murdered, 192 Tromboncino, Bartolommeo, 162, 234–5
Trotti, Nicola dei (earlier senese), 184, 214, 216
Trotto, Bigio dei, 214
Tuttobono, 258
see also Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
Valengo, Giovanni, 235
Valla, Giovanni, 336
Varano, Giulio Cesare, 181
Venice: rule, 1;
alliance with Alexander VI, 26;
and Ercole d’Este, 202;
rebuffs Alfonso d’Este, 257, 291;
League of Cambrai directed against, 291–2;
war against Ferrara, 292–6;
Julius makes pact with against French, 297;
supports Julius against Ferrara, 298;
supports Francis I against Emperor, 334
Verona, Gaspare de, 13
Vettori, Francesco, 333
Villeneuve, Louis de, Baron de Trans, 76, 106
Violante, La (LB’s attendant), 168, 300
Vitelli family, 202
Vitelli, Vitellozzo, 85, 95, 178–80, 182
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 358
Zambotti, Bernardino, 135, 154, 156, 158, 167, 225
Ziliolo, Hieronymo, 234, 249, 363
Zurita, (historian of Ferdinand of Aragon), 267