Montevegio, Roberto da
Morello da Napoli, Vincenzo
Most Holy League
Naples: Aragon rule in; French claims to; alliance with Milan; Alexander VI supports; retreat before French; Charles VIII in; Federigo’s coronation in; Cesare’s ambitions for; Rodrigo Bisceglie’s estates in
Nasello, il (envoy)
Nepi
Niccolò III d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara
Oliva, Count of
Oliverotto of Fermo
Organo, Antonio dall’
Orsini family: hostility to Pope; suspected of killing Juan Gandia; and attack on Alfonso Bisceglie; and Cesare’s plotting; oppose Cesare
Orsini, Cardinal
Orsini, Carlo
Orsini, Fabio
Orsini, Francesco, Duke of Gravina
Orsini, Giangiordano
Orsini, Laura (Giulia Farnese’s daughter)
Orsini, Orsino
Orsini, Paolo
Orsini, Rinaldo, Archbishop of Florence
Orsini, Roberto
Orsini, Virginio
Orsini di Stabia, Giuliano
Orta, Bishop of (LB’s chaplain)
Osanna Andreassi, Sister
Ostia
Pagnano, Giovanni Paolo
Pantasilea
Papal States: status; under Pope’s control
Paris: Alfonso d’Este visits
Paul II, Pope
Paul III, Pope (Alessandro Farnese)
Pedro de Atares, Don
Pellegrino da San Daniele
Pepi, Francesco
Perotto see Calderon, Pedro
Perusa, Cardinal of
Pesaro
Petrato, Alberto di
Petrucci, Pandolfo
Piccimini, Christoforo (LB’s secretary)
Pico della Mirandola family
Pico della Mirandola, Francesca
Pico della Mirandola, Count Lodovico: carries Alexander VI’s standard; on murder of Troche; accompanies Ippolito d’Este to see brother Alfonso; feud with Alberto Pio; killed in war against Venice
Pieve, La
Pigna, Giovanni Alberto della
Pigna, Stefano della
Pinctoris, Jacopo
Pinturicchio, Bernardino
Pio da Carpi, Alberto
Pio da Sassuolo, Alessandro
Pia, Emilia
Pio, Ercole
Pistofilo, Bonaventura
Pitigliano, Count of
Pius II, Pope
Pius III, Pope (Francesco Piccolomini)
plague: in Ferrara; in Modena
Poccino, Paolo
Poggio, Cristoforo
poison and poisoning
Portius, Hieronymus
Portugal
Poto, Gaspar
Pozzi, Gian Luca
Prete, El
Procida, Don Gaspar de
Prosperi, Bernardino di: reports to Isabella on LB’s activities; on Guidobaldo of Urbino’s flight; on LB’s pregnancies; on LB’s allowance; on LB’s life in Ferrara; on LB at death of Alexander VI; on plague in Ferrara; on Ercole’s death; on LB’s accession as Duchess of Ferrara; on corruption under Ercole; on building of passageways in Ferrara; on Ferrara affairs under Alfonso and LB; on d’Este feud in Ferrara; on attack on Giulio d’Este; and Alfonso d’Este’s absence on pilgrimage; on Alfonso actions after Congiura conspiracy; on LB’s treatment of Lucrezia Bentivoglio; on Angela Borgia; on LB’s grief at death of Cesare; on new year celebrations in Ferrara; praises Ariosto’s La Cassaria; on LB’s children; on disputes between Alfonso d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga; on murder of Ercole Strozzi; on Ercole Strozzi’s marriage to Barbara Torelli; on Ercole d’Este’s childhood; LB sends to Francesco Gonzaga; on French troops in Ferrara; on Alfonso’s victory at La Bastia; disapproves of LB’s entertaining French troops; on LB’s health stay at San Bernardino; seeks favours from Isabella d’Este; on Ippolito d’Este’s comforting LB on death of son Rodrigo; on Alfonso d’Este’s return to Ferrara; on Julius II; on Costabili’s entertaining Prospero Colonna in Ferrara; on LB’s women taking veil; correspondence with Isabella d’Este; on tilting in Ferrara; on Alfonso’s building improvements; on clerical behaviour; on LB’s worsening health; and LB’s anger at Giovanni Borgia; on Alfonso’s administrative failings; on LB/Alfonso’s mutual love; on LB’s final illness
Publica, Bernardino della
Pucci, Lorenzo
Pucci, Puccio
Putti, Dalida de’
Rainaldo, Don
Ramires, Diego
Ramires, Pedro
Ramón, Guillen
Rampino, Alfonso
Rangoni, Count Guido
Ranuccio degli Ottoni
Ranuzzi, Battista
Raphael Sanzio
Raphaele ofVarese, Fra
Ravenna, battle of (1512)
Regazzi da San Secondo, Antonio (‘il Milanese’)
Reggio
Regino, Cardinal
Remi, Opizo (or Obizzo) da
Remolins, Francesc
Riario, Cardinal
Rimini, Bishop of
Rinaldo d’Este, Niccolò di
Roberti, Ercole de’
Roberti, Gherardo de’
Rodrigo, Duke of Bisceglie (LB’s son): birth and christening; childhood; future discussed on mother’s marriage to d’Este; created Duke of Sermoneta; LB leaves on departure for Ferrara
Rohan, Cardinal de
Romagna: Borgias seek to control; LB travels through
Romana, Samaritana
Romano, Gian Cristoforo
Rome: as centre of Christendom; rebuilding and improvement; plague in; Charles VIII enters; Cesare Borgia’s triumphal procession in
Rossetti, Biagio
Rovere, Galeotto Franciotti della, Cardinal of San Pietro in Vincula
Rovere, Giovanna della
Rovere, Giovanni Maria della
Rovere, Giuliano della see Julius II, Pope
Rubiera, Franceschino Boccacci da
Rucellai, Nannina
Ruini, Carlo
Sacerdote, Gustavo
Saluzzo, Ricciarda da
San Leo (fortress)
Sancho (LB’s major – domo)
Sancia of Aragon: marriage to Jofre Borgia; in Naples; returns to Rome; appearance; behaviour; relations with Cesare Borgia; witnesses conversion of Jews; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso; Alexander sends to Naples; affair with Cesare Borgia ends; favours Burgundian in duel; and killing of brother Alfonso; affair with Ippolito d’Este; accompanies Prospero Colonna to Naples; and Rodrigo Bisceglie’s upbringing
Sanseverino, Cardinal
Santa Croce, Jacopo di
Santa Praxede, Cardinal of
Sanudo, Marin: on LB’s divorce; on death of Perotto; on forced conversion of Jews; on Ascanio Sforza in Rome; on Alexander VI’s violent threats; on Alexander’s accident and recovery; on Borgia contingent for journey to Ferrara; and Cesare’s abduction of Dorotea Malatesta; on LB’s efforts to help Cesare; and Alfonso’s view of Cesare; on Duke Ercole’s extortions; on LB’s reaction to Cesare’s death; and Alfonso’s actions in papal war; on excommunication of Alfonso; on LB’s preparations to evacuate Ferrara; on Ercole d’Este’s childhood illness; on Julius II’s hostility to Michelotto; on Julius’s threatening Ferrara; on death of Julius; on Pigna’s mission in Venice
Saraceni, Gherardo
Sassuolo
Savelli family
Savelli, Silvio
Savonarola, Girolamo
Scalona, Gian Carlo
Schiavi, Giorgio
Senese, Elisabetta
Serafino, Count Alexandro
Seregni, Giangiorgio
Sermide
Sermoneta: LB appointed ruler
Sestola, Girolamo da (‘Coglia’)
Sforza family
Sforza, Alessandro
Sforza, Anna (Alfonso d’Este’s first wife)
Sforza, Ca
rdinal Ascanio: and brother Ludovico’s ambitions; on Alexander VI’s palace; and Alexander VI’s election to papacy; and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza; and Giovanni’s relations with Alexander VI; leaves Rome; joins Colonna; intercedes for captured Giulia and Adriana; Ludovico Sforza reproves; and Giovanni’s marriage relations; and LB’s divorce from Giovanni; suspected of killing Juan Gandia; and proposed Neapolitan marriage for LB; and Alexander’s negotiation with Naples; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso; courts LB; leaves Rome for Nettuno; Alexander takes Nepi castle from; and Louis XII’s campaign in Italy; captured and imprisoned
Sforza, Beatrice (née d’Este)
Sforza, Bianca Maria
Sforza, Camilla d’Aragona (wife of Costanzo)
Sforza, Caterina (Riario)
Sforza, Costanzo, Count of Cotignola
Sforza, Galeazzo
Sforza, Gian Galeazzo
Sforza, Giovanni: marriage to LB; leaves Rome in plague; and access to Alexander VI,; in Pesaro; divorce from LB; deteriorating marriage relations; flees from Rome to Pesaro; suspected of impotency; suspected of killing Juan Gandia; deprived of status as papal vicar; Cesare Borgia plans destruction of; Cesare Borgia drives from Pesaro; excluded from Ferrara; exile in Venice; returns to Pesaro after Alexander VI’s death
Sforza, Ludovico (‘il Moro’), Duke of Milan: conflict with Gian
Sforza, Ludovico – cont. Galeazzo; and LB’s marriage to Giovanni Sforza; ridicules Alexander VI; letter from Giovanni Sforza; fears breach with Alexander VI; and Giovanni’s divorce from LB; captures Cesare Borgia’s messenger; in war against French; death; marriage to Beatrice; Ippolito d’Este stays with; defeat (1500); grants Bari to Isabella d’Aragona
Sforza, Massimiliano
Sinigallia
Sixtus IV, Pope
Soderini, Bishop of Florence
sodomy
Soriano, battle of (1496)
Spagnoli, Tolomeo
Spain: and division of New Worlds; military support for Alexander VI, 55; expels Jews; supports Julius II in papal war; alliance with Leo X
Spoleto: LB appointed Governor; Alfonso reunited with LB in
Strozzi, Costanza
Strozzi, Ercole: celebrates LB’s arrival in Ferrara; character; as LB’s confidant and go – between; Alfonso disfavours and dismisses; LB asks Gonzaga to favour; poem on Cesare’s death; marriage to Barbara Torelli; murdered; poems printed
Strozzi, Guido
Strozzi, Lorenzo: reports on Francesco Gonzaga to LB; dismissed as seneschal; and death of LB’s baby son; marriage to Costanza; and Duke Ercole’s death; and Barbara Torelli; as LB’s go – between; supports LB against Isabella; and Gonzaga’s wish for LB to come to Mantua
Strozzi, Tito
syphilis
Taberna, Stefano
Taglia, Battista da
Tamburino, Ricciardetto
Tartufo, Rizo del
Tebaldeo, Antonio
Tebaldi, Jacopo de
Theodora, Madonna (of Ferrara court)
Theseo, Fra
Thomaso, Fra
Thus, Abraham
Torelli, Barbara
Tormelli, Thomasino
Trémouïlle, Louis de
Trevisan, Domenico
Trissino, Giangiorgio
Trivulzio, Gian – Giacopo
Troche, Francesco; murdered
Tromboncino, Bartolommeo
Trotti, Giacomo
Trotti, Nicola dei (earlier senese)
Trotto, Bigio dei
Tura, Cosimo
Tuttobono
Urbino; see also Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
Valencia
Valengo, Giovanni
Valla, Giovanni
Varano family
Varano, Giulio Cesare
Venice: rule, I; alliance with Alexander VI; and Ercole d’Este; rebuffs Alfonso d’Este; League of Cambrai directed against; war against Ferrara; Julius makes pact with against French; supports Julius against Ferrara; supports
Francis I against Emperor
Venosa, Bishop of
Verona, Gaspare de
Vettori, Francesco
Villeneuve, Louis de, Baron de Trans
Violante, La (LB’s attendant)
Vitelli family
Vitelli,Vitellozzo
Wirtz, Maria
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas
Zambotti, Bernardino
Ziliolo, Giovanni
Ziliolo, Hieronymo
Zurita, (historian of Ferdinand of Aragon)
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