Lucrezia BORGIA (18 April 1480-24 June 1519). The illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Roderic Llançol de Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI, contracted three marriages according to the political ambitions of his father and brother Caesar. The first with the lord of Pesaro Giovanni Sforza, canceled by his father / pope to clear the road to the second with Alfonso d'Aragona, illegitimate son of Alfonso II of Naples, who died assassinated on the order of his brother-in-law Cesare when the time was ripe for the third marriage with Alfonso d'Este, son of the Duke of Ferrara. Portrait in profile, engraving by Gio. De Caro 'from a medallion belonging to the collection owned by the squire Ricardo Heber de Hodnet in London'. 19th century Italian engraving

Lucrezia BORGIA (18 April 1480-24 June 1519). The illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Roderic Llançol de Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI, contracted three marriages according to the political ambitions of his father and brother Caesar. The first with the lord of Pesaro Giovanni Sforza, canceled by his father / pope to clear the road to the second with Alfonso d'Aragona, illegitimate son of Alfonso II of Naples, who died assassinated on the order of his brother-in-law Cesare when the time was ripe for the third marriage with Alfonso d'Este, son of the Duke of Ferrara. Portrait in profile, engraving by Gio. De Caro 'from a medallion belonging to the collection owned by the squire Ricardo Heber de Hodnet in London'. 19th century Italian engraving

Lucrezia BORGIA (18 April 1480 - 24 June 1519). The illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Roderic Llançol de Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI, contracted three marriages according to the political ambitions of his father and brother Caesar. The first with the lord of Pesaro Giovanni Sforza, canceled by his father / pope to clear the road to the second with Alfonso d'Aragona, illegitimate son of Alfonso II of Naples, who died assassinated on the order of his brother-in-law Cesare when the time was ripe for the third marriage with Alfonso d'Este, son of the Duke of Ferrara. Portrait in profile, engraving by Gio. De Caro 'from a medallion belonging to the collection owned by the squire Ricardo Heber de Hodnet in London'. 19th century Italian engraving

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