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Authors: Sarah Bradford
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (58 page)
Remi, Opizo (or Obizzo) da
Remolins, Francesc
Riario, Cardinal
Rimini, Bishop of
Rinaldo d’Este, Niccolò di
Roberti, Ercole de’
Roberti, Gherardo de’
Rodrigo, Duke of Bisceglie (LB’s son): birth and christening; childhood; future discussed on mother’s marriage to d’Este; created Duke of Sermoneta; LB leaves on departure for Ferrara
Rohan, Cardinal de
Romagna: Borgias seek to control; LB travels through
Romana, Samaritana
Romano, Gian Cristoforo
Rome: as centre of Christendom; rebuilding and improvement; plague in; Charles VIII enters; Cesare Borgia’s triumphal procession in
Rossetti, Biagio
Rovere, Galeotto Franciotti della, Cardinal of San Pietro in Vincula
Rovere, Giovanna della
Rovere, Giovanni Maria della
Rovere, Giuliano della
see
Julius II, Pope
Rubiera, Franceschino Boccacci da
Rucellai, Nannina
Ruini, Carlo
Sacerdote, Gustavo
Saluzzo, Ricciarda da
San Leo (fortress)
Sancho (LB’s major – domo)
Sancia of Aragon: marriage to Jofre Borgia; in Naples; returns to Rome; appearance; behaviour; relations with Cesare Borgia; witnesses conversion of Jews; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso; Alexander sends to Naples; affair with Cesare Borgia ends; favours Burgundian in duel; and killing of brother Alfonso; affair with Ippolito d’Este; accompanies Prospero Colonna to Naples; and Rodrigo Bisceglie’s upbringing
Sanseverino, Cardinal
Sanseverino, Galeazzo da (Gran Scudero)
Santa Croce, Jacopo di
Santa Praxede, Cardinal of
Sanudo, Marin: on LB’s divorce; on death of Perotto; on forced conversion of Jews; on Ascanio Sforza in Rome; on Alexander VI’s violent threats; on Alexander’s accident and recovery; on Borgia contingent for journey to Ferrara; and Cesare’s abduction of Dorotea Malatesta; on LB’s efforts to help Cesare; and Alfonso’s view of Cesare; on Duke Ercole’s extortions; on LB’s reaction to Cesare’s death; and Alfonso’s actions in papal war; on excommunication of Alfonso; on LB’s preparations to evacuate Ferrara; on Ercole d’Este’s childhood illness; on Julius II’s hostility to Michelotto; on Julius’s threatening Ferrara; on death of Julius; on Pigna’s mission in Venice
Saraceni, Gherardo
Sassuolo
Savelli family
Savelli, Silvio
Savonarola, Girolamo
Scalona, Gian Carlo
Schiavi, Giorgio
Senese, Elisabetta
Serafino, Count Alexandro
Seregni, Giangiorgio
Sermide
Sermoneta: LB appointed ruler
Sestola, Girolamo da (‘Coglia’)
Sforza family
Sforza, Alessandro
Sforza, Anna (Alfonso d’Este’s first wife)
Sforza, Cardinal Ascanio: and brother Ludovico’s ambitions; on Alexander VI’s palace; and Alexander VI’s election to papacy; and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza; and Giovanni’s relations with Alexander VI; leaves Rome; joins Colonna; intercedes for captured Giulia and Adriana; Ludovico Sforza reproves; and Giovanni’s marriage relations; and LB’s divorce from Giovanni; suspected of killing Juan Gandia; and proposed Neapolitan marriage for LB; and Alexander’s negotiation with Naples; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso; courts LB; leaves Rome for Nettuno; Alexander takes Nepi castle from; and Louis XII’s campaign in Italy; captured and imprisoned
Sforza, Beatrice
(née
d’Este)
Sforza, Bianca Maria
Sforza, Camilla d’Aragona (wife of Costanzo)
Sforza, Caterina (Riario)
Sforza, Costanzo, Count of Cotignola
Sforza, Galeazzo
Sforza, Gian Galeazzo
Sforza, Giovanni: marriage to LB; leaves Rome in plague; and access to Alexander VI,; in Pesaro; divorce from LB; deteriorating marriage relations; flees from Rome to Pesaro; suspected of impotency; suspected of killing Juan Gandia; deprived of status as papal vicar; Cesare Borgia plans destruction of; Cesare Borgia drives from Pesaro; excluded from Ferrara; exile in Venice; returns to Pesaro after Alexander VI’s death
Sforza, Ludovico (‘il Moro’), Duke of Milan: conflict with Gian
Sforza, Ludovico –
cont.
Galeazzo; and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza; ridicules Alexander VI; letter from Giovanni Sforza; fears breach with Alexander VI; and Giovanni’s divorce from LB; captures Cesare Borgia’s messenger; in war against French; death; marriage to Beatrice; Ippolito d’Este stays with; defeat (1500); grants Bari to Isabella d’Aragona
Sforza, Massimiliano
Sinigallia
Sixtus IV, Pope
Soderini, Bishop of Florence
sodomy
Soriano, battle of (1496)
Spagnoli, Tolomeo
Spain: and division of New Worlds; military support for Alexander VI, 55; expels Jews; supports Julius II in papal war; alliance with Leo X
Spoleto: LB appointed Governor; Alfonso reunited with LB in
Strozzi, Costanza
Strozzi, Ercole: celebrates LB’s arrival in Ferrara; character; as LB’s confidant and go – between; Alfonso disfavours and dismisses; LB asks Gonzaga to favour; poem on Cesare’s death; marriage to Barbara Torelli; murdered; poems printed
Strozzi, Guido
Strozzi, Lorenzo: reports on Francesco Gonzaga to LB; dismissed as seneschal; and death of LB’s baby son; marriage to Costanza; and Duke Ercole’s death; and Barbara Torelli; as LB’s go – between; supports LB against Isabella; and Gonzaga’s wish for LB to come to Mantua
Strozzi, Tito
syphilis
Taberna, Stefano
Taglia, Battista da
Tamburino, Ricciardetto
Tartufo, Rizo del
Tebaldeo, Antonio
Tebaldi, Jacopo de
Theodora, Madonna (of Ferrara court)
Theseo, Fra
Thomaso, Fra
Thus, Abraham
Titian
Torelli, Barbara
Tormelli, Thomasino
Trémouïlle, Louis de
Trevisan, Domenico
Trissino, Giangiorgio
Trivulzio, Gian – Giacopo
Troche, Francesco; murdered
Tromboncino, Bartolommeo
Trotti, Giacomo
Trotti, Nicola dei (
earlier
senese
)
Trotto, Bigio dei
Tura, Cosimo
Tuttobono
Urbino;
see
also
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
Valencia
Valengo, Giovanni
Valla, Giovanni
Varano family
Varano, Giulio Cesare
Venice: rule, I; alliance with Alexander VI; and Ercole d’Este; rebuffs Alfonso d’Este; League of Cambrai directed against; war against Ferrara; Julius makes pact with against French; supports Julius against Ferrara; supports
Francis I against Emperor
Venosa, Bishop of
Verona, Gaspare de
Vettori, Francesco
Villeneuve, Louis de, Baron de Trans
Violante, La (LB’s attendant)
Vitelli family
Vitelli,Vitellozzo
Wirtz, Maria
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas
Zambotti, Bernardino
Ziliolo, Giovanni
Ziliolo, Hieronymo
Zurita, (historian of Ferdinand of Aragon)
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