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Title: Lucretia Borgia
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Gregorovius, Ferdinand, 1821-1891 Garner, John Leslie
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 Borgia family--Biography Femmes fatales--Italy--Rome--Biography Renaissance--Italy Rome (Italy)--Court and courtiers--History--16th century Italy--History--1492-1559.
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
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tinued to honor heras the mother of his children and as the confidant of manyof his secrets. Vannozza had borne her husband, a certain Giorgio diCroee, a son, who was named Octavian—at least this childpassed as his. With the cardinals help she increased herrevenues; in old official records she appears as the lesseeof several taverns in Rome, and she also bought a vine-yard and a country house near S. Lucia in Selci in theSubura, apparently from the Cesarini. Even to-day thepicturesque building with the arched passageway overthe stairs which lead up from the Subura to S. Pietro inVincoli is pointed out to travelers as the palace of Van-nozza or of Lucretia Borgia. Giorgio di Croce had becomerich, and he built a chapel for himself and his family inS. Maria del Popolo. Both he and his son Octavian died inthe year I486.* His death caused a change in Vannozza *s circumstances, * See Adinolfis notice quoted by the author in his Geschichte derStadt Rom im Mittelalter. 2d Aufl. vii, 312. 20
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LUCEETIAS EDUCATION the cardinal hastening to marry the mother of his childrena second time, so that she might have a protector and arespectable household. The new husband was CarloCanale, of Mantua. Before he came to Eome he had by his attainmentsacquired some reputation among the humanists of Mantua.There is still extant a letter to Canale, w^ritten by theyoung poet Angelo Poliziano regarding his Orfeo;the manuscript of this, the first attempt in the field ofthe drama which marked the renaissance of the Italiantheater, was in the hands of Canale, who, appreciatingthe work of the faint-hearted poet, was endeavoring to en-courage him.* At the suggestion of Cardinal FrancescoGonzaga, a great patron of letters, Poliziano had writtenthe poem in the short space of two days. Carlo Canalewas the cardinals chamberlain. The Orfeo saw the lightin 1472. When Gonzaga died, in 1483, Canale went toRome, where he entered the service of Cardinal Sclafetano,of Parma. As a confident and dependant of t

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