Pinctoris, Jacopo, 15

Pinturicchio, Bernardino, 51–2

Pio da Carpi, Alberto, 237, 243, 252–3,

265, 314

Pio da Sassuolo, Alessandro, 251–2, 266, 283

Pia, Emilia, 142, 347

Pio, Ercole, 275

Pistofilo, Bonaventura, 149, 348, 355–9

Pitigliano, Count of, 29

Pius II, Pope, 13–14, 195

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

Portugal, 12, 30, 300

Poto, Gaspar, 88

Pozzi, Gian Luca, 123, 128–9, 131, 137, 140, 147–8, 175, 177, 198, 255, 273

Prete, El, 127–8, 147, 184

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

Rainaldo, Don, 243, 244

Ramires, Diego, 143, 211

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

Reggio, 310, 348

Regino, Cardinal, 227, 239

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

Savonarola, Girolamo, 69, 361

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 family, 1, 70

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, Guido, 283, 285

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

Strozzi, Tito, 186, 332

syphilis, 51, 69, 140

Taberna, Stefano, 27, 53, 66

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, Giacomo, 47, 229

Trotti, Nicola dei (earlier senese), 184, 214, 216

Trotto, Bigio dei, 214

Tura, Cosimo, 169, 231

Tuttobono, 258

Urbino, 142, 144, 173, 178;

see also Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

Valencia, 20–21, 23

Valengo, Giovanni, 235

Valla, Giovanni, 336

Varano family, 175, 344

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

Venosa, Bishop of, 98, 175–6

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

Wirtz, Maria, 274, 283–4

Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 358

Zambotti, Bernardino, 135, 154, 156, 158, 167, 225

Ziliolo, Giovanni, 123, 129

Ziliolo, Hieronymo, 234, 249, 363

Zurita, (historian of Ferdinand of Aragon), 267

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