![]() Throughout her short life, Lucrezia Borgia was considered beautiful. If their exact predictions came true, the world does not know, but Lucrezia did grow up to become one of the most infamous members of the powerful Borgia clan. To the cardinal’s delight, the astrologers foretold a remarkable future for his illegitimate daughter. Nobody believed for one moment, however, that the child’s father was Vannozza’s husband, as Vannozza had been Borgia’s favorite mistress for many years. Named Lucrezia, the baby girl was the daughter of Vannozza Cattanei, a Roman woman noted for her beauty. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to tell him the future of a newborn child. But how much of the scandalous reputation was true, and how much was sheer invention? ![]() The illegitimate daughter of a pope and his mistress, Lucrezia Borgia was a famous beauty, notorious for the suspicious deaths and political intrigue that swirled around her and her family. ![]() Marriage and Murder in Renaissance Italy. Bartolomeo Veneto’s 1515 refined portrait of Lucrezia Borgia
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