He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia ; Giovanni Borgia ( Juan ), Duke of Gandia ; and Gioffre Borgia ( Jofré in Catalan ), Prince of Squillace.

Giovanni Sforza, first husband of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from Pesaro ; Pandolfo Malatesta lost Rimini ; Faenza surrendered, its young lord Astorre III Manfredi being later drowned in the Tiber river by Cesare's order.

Cesare was also father to at least 11 illegitimate children, among them Girolamo Borgia, who married Isabella Contessa di Carpi, and Lucrezia Borgia, who, after Cesare's death, was moved to Ferrara to the court of her aunt, Lucrezia Borgia.

Lucrezia Borgia was another sister-in-law ; she later became the mistress of Isabella's husband.

Francesco's affair with Lucrezia, whose beauty was renowned, caused Isabella much jealous suffering and emotional pain.

His mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni was a poet and writer of sonnets.

Lorenzo was considered the brightest of the five children of Piero and Lucrezia, tutored by a diplomat, Gentile Becchi.

Lucrezia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519 ) was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei.

Lucrezia was married to Giovanni Sforza ( Lord of Pesaro ), Alfonso of Aragon ( Duke of Bisceglie ), and Alfonso I d ' Este ( Duke of Ferrara ).

Lucrezia Borgia was born at Subiaco, near Rome.

One painting, Portrait of a Youth by Dosso Dossi at the National Gallery of Victoria, was identified as a portrait of Lucrezia in November 2008.

On 26 February 1491, a matrimonial arrangement was drawn up between Lucrezia and the Lord of Val D ' Ayora in the kingdom of Valencia, Don Cherubino Joan de Centelles, which was annulled less than two months later in favour of a new contract engaging Lucrezia to Don Gaspare Aversa, count of Procida.

The generally accepted version is that Lucrezia was informed of this by her brother Cesare, and she warned her husband, who fled Rome.

However, some time after Alexander's death, Giovanni went to stay with Lucrezia in Ferrara, where he was accepted as her half-brother.

Following her divorce from Sforza, Lucrezia was married to the Neapolitan Alfonso of Aragon, the half-brother of Sancha of Aragon who was the wife of Lucrezia's brother Gioffre Borgia.

Neither partner was faithful: beginning in 1503, Lucrezia enjoyed a long relationship with her brother-in-law, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet Pietro Bembo.

Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual Isabella d ' Este, the sister of Alfonso, to whom Lucrezia had made overtures of friendship to no avail.

This painting may be the only surviving formal portrait of Lucrezia Borgia ; however, doubts have been cast on that claim.

The cast, led by conductor Tullio Serafin, included Lucrezia Bori in the breeches role of Octavian, Ines Maria Ferraris as Sophie, and Pavel Ludikar as Baron Ochs.

The cast included tenor Francesco Meli as Jacopo Foscari and soprano Marina Poplavskaya as Lucrezia.

* – Dame Joan Sutherland in the title role of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia

Her notable films include Lady Hamilton ( 1921 ; her breakthrough role ); Lucrezia Borgia ( 1926 ); Die Csardasfürstin ( 1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán ); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus ( The Song Is Ended ) ( 1930 ) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn ( 1936 ).

In addition, she sang the title role in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia with the Opera Orchestra of New York.

In 2000, Fleming appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera and at Covent Garden as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and sang the title role in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia with the Opera Orchestra of New York.

In 1970, Caballé made her " official " debut at La Scala in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia, sang Leonora in Philadelphia, and returned to the Met as Amelia in a critically acclaimed production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with Plácido Domingo as Riccardo, and Reri Grist as Oscar.

Tietjens, a particularly famous 19th century Lucrezia, made her debut in the role at Hamburg in 1849, and in her day was unequalled and completely identified with the role.

Lucrezia Borgia is performed from time to time as a vehicle for a star soprano, a case in point being the Fall 2008 performances at the Washington National Opera with Renée Fleming in the title role.

She also proves herself adept at playing the role of Lucrezia Mongfish in the popular Heterodyne plays performed by Master Payne's Circus, an irony which is not lost on her or Krosp, though she keeps her real identity secret from the other members of the Circus.

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

From the time Lucrezia had first arrived in Ferrara as Alfonso's intended bride, Isabella, despite having acted as hostess during the wedding festivities, had regarded Lucrezia as a rival, whom she sought to outdo at every opportunity.

On returning to Novellara, she became sexually involved with Claudio, an illegitimate son of Count Francesco of Novellara, and took part in a plot to murder his uncle on the death of his father as an attempt to gain his inheritance and title ; while Claudio escaped justice, Lucrezia was caught with some of the other conspirators, and she died in prison in 1584.

Tarquinia, unlike Wert, but like Lucrezia, was a member of the nobility, and when her affair with Wert was found out in 1589 – their affair was plagued with spies, and their love-letters opened – she was banished to Modena.

On her return from Cuba in 1855, when she played Lucrezia Borgia in the opera, the New York Times called her " one of the few worth welcoming back again "; but critic Richard Grant White wrote that her voice had deteriorated into " a bewildered shriek ".

Though there appeared to be an emotional connection between the couple, and Lucrezia became a beloved wife, she had a few affairs on the side.

In what Fleming has described as " the worst night of her operatic life " she was roundly booed on the opening night of Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti in July, 1998 at La Scala.

Caballé's international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in a semi-staged performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at New York's Carnegie Hall, which earned her a 25-minute standing ovation.

After she was turned from conquest by the Heterodynes ' ideals, a romantic triangle formed between Klaus, Lucrezia, and Bill.

Lucrezia, being used to doing as she pleased, moved from one to the other as her whim suited her, until finally settling on Bill ( though not before spending one last night with Klaus and drugging him to prevent any disturbances during the rest of her life ).

However, he is now obsessed with the pursuit of Agatha, because he believes she is Lucrezia and therefore The Other, having recognized her mannerisms and speech patterns while she possessed her daughter.

Recently, through the work of a conspiracy of Sparks and the Geisterdamen, a race of pale amazons who worship Lucrezia as a goddess, she has managed to imprint her mind onto that of her daughter Agatha Heterodyne, as well as stealing the clank body of Anevka Sturmvoraus.

A Lucrezia persona has sufficiently integrated with Zola to convince Anevka / Lucrezia that she is in control.

Zola was last seen convalescing from injuries received in escaping Castle Heterodyne, possibly under the control of the Lucrezia persona she " audited " in the Castle.

Her first child, Anna, born in 1531, was followed by Alfonso, in 1533 ; Lucrezia, 1535 ; after these, Eleonora and Luigi ; whose education she carefully directed.

In 1902 she was Lucrezia in Stephen Phillips's Paolo and Francesca at the St. James's Theatre, London.