person
Lucrezia Borgia
also: Borgia Lucrezia
Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI; her reputation for intrigue and licentiousness — largely legend — made her a byword for the extreme of female dissolute ambition.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI; her reputation — largely later legend — made her a byword for Renaissance intrigue and dissolute pleasure.