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See also:BORGIA, LUCREZIA (1480-1519) , duchess of See also:Ferrara, daughter of See also:Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, afterwards See also:Pope See also:Alexander VI. (q.v.), by his See also:mistress Vanozza dei Cattanei, was See also:born at See also:Rome in 1480. Her See also:early years were spent at her See also:mother's See also:house near her See also:father's splendid See also:palace; but later she was given over to the care of Adriana de Mila, a relation of Cardinal Borgia and mother-in-See also:law of Giulia See also:Farnese, another of his mistresses. Lucrezia was educated according to the usual curriculum of See also:Renaissance ladies of See also:rank, and was taught See also:languages, See also:music, See also:embroidery, See also:painting, &c.; she was famed for her beauty and See also:charm, but the corrupt See also:court of Rome in which she was brought up was not conducive to a See also:good moral See also:education. Her father at first contemplated a See also:Spanish See also:marriage for her, and at the See also:age of eleven she was betrothed to See also:Don Cherubin de Centelles, a Spanish nobleman. But the engagement was broken off almost immediately, and Lucrezia was married by See also:proxy to another Spaniard, Don Gasparo de See also:Procida, son of the See also:count of See also:Aversa. On the See also:death of See also:Innocent VIII. (1492), Cardinal Borgia was elected pope as Alexander VI., and, contemplating a yet more ambitious marriage for his daughter, he annulled the See also:union with Procida; in See also:February 1493 Lucrezia was betrothed to Giovanni See also:Sforza, See also:lord of See also:Pesaro, with whose See also:family Alexander was now in See also:close See also:alliance. The See also:wedding was celebrated in See also:June; but when the pope's policy changed and he became friendly to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king
of See also:Naples, the enemy of the house of Sforza, he planned the subjugation of the See also:vassal lords of Romagna, and Giovanni, feeling his position insecure, See also:left Rome for Pesaro with his wife. By See also:Christmas 1495 they were back in Rome; the pope had all his See also:children around him, and celebrated the See also:carnival with a See also:series of magnificent festivities. But he decided that he had done with Sforza, and annulled the marriage on the ground of the See also:husband's See also:impotence (See also:March 1497). In See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:cement his alliance with Naples, he married Lucrezia to See also:Alphonso of See also:Aragon, See also:duke of Bisceglie, a handsome youth of eighteen, related to the Neapolitan king.
But he too realized the fickleness of the Borgias' favour when Alexander backed up See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XII. of See also:France in the latter's schemes for the See also:conquest of Naples. Bisceglie fled from Rome, fearing for his See also:life, and the pope sent Lucrezia to receive the See also:homage of the See also:city of See also:Spoleto as See also:governor. On her return to Rome in 1499, her husband, who really loved her, was induced to join her once more. A See also:year later he was murdered by the order of her See also:brother Cesare. After the death of Bisceglie, Lucrezia retired to See also:Nepi, and then returned to Rome, where she acted for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a+s See also:regent during Alexander's See also:absence. The latter now was anxious for a union between his daughter and Alphonso, son and See also:heir to Ercole d' See also:Este, duke of Ferrara. The negotiations were somewhat difficult, as neither Alphonso nor his father was anxious for a connexion with the house of Borgia, and Lucrezia's own reputation was not unblemished. However, by bribes and threats the opposition was overcome, and in See also:September 1501 the marriage was celebrated by proxy with See also:great magnificence in Rome. On Lucrezia's arrival at Ferrara she won over her reluctant husband by her youthful charm (she was only twenty-two), and from that time forth she led a peaceful life, about which there was hardly a breath of See also:scandal. On the death of Ercole in 1505, her husband became duke, and she gathered many learned men, poets and artists at her court, among whom were See also:Ariosto, Cardinal See also:Bembo, Aldus See also:Manutius the printer, and the painters See also:Titian and Dosso Dossi. She devoted herself to the education of her children and to charitable See also:works; the only tragedy connected with this See also:period of her life is the See also:murder of Ercole See also:Strozzi, who is said to have admired her and fallen a victim to Alphonso's See also:jealousy. She died on the 24th of June 1519, leaving three sons and a daughter by the duke of Ferrara, besides one son Rodrigo by the duke of Bisceglie, and possibly another of doubtful paternity.
She seems to have been a woman of very mediocre talents, and only played a See also:part in See also:history because she was the daughter of Alexander VI. and the See also:sister of Cesare Borgia. While she was in Rome she was probably no better and no worse than the See also:women around her, but there is no serious See also:evidence for the charges of See also:incest with her father and See also:brothers which were brought against her by the scandal-mongers of the time.
See the See also:bibliographies for ALEXANDER VI. and BORGIA, CESARE; and especially F. See also:Gregorovius's Lucrezia Borgia (See also:Stuttgart, 1874), the See also:standard See also:work on the subject; also W. See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert's Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (See also:London, 1869), which, while containing much See also:information, is quite without historic value; and G. Campori s "Una Vittima della Storia, Lucrezia Borgia," in the Nuova A ntologia (See also:August 31, 1866), which aims at the rehabilitation of Lucrezia. (L.
End of Article: BORGIA, LUCREZIA (1480-1519)
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