Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (57 page)

Francis I, King of France

Frassina, Comatre

Frederick III, Emperor

Fregoso, Ottaviano

Furlano, Enea (‘il Cavaliero’)

Gabbioneta, Archdeacon of

Gacet, Francesco (or Francesc)

Gadio, Stazio

Gaeta

Gandia, dukedom of

Gandia, Juan BorgiaDuke of: Alexander VI’s fondness for; character and behaviour; succeeds to titles and estates; and LB’s marriage to Giovanni; marriage to Maria Enriques; supposed non – consummation of marriage; granted lands; relations with Giovanni Sforza; homesickness; portrait; returns to Rome; leads campaign against Orsini; and LB’s divorce from Giovanni; disappearance and death; invested Duke of Benevento; body found and funeral; accused of incest with LB

Gandia, Pedro Luis Borgia, Ist Duke of

Gardner, Edmund G.

Gatto, Marcantonio

Genoa

Gian Cantore see Artigianova, Gian de

Gianuzzi, Jacopo de’

Giordano, Vincenzo

Giovanna, Madonna

Giovio, Paolo

Giustinian, Antonio

Gonzaga family: rule in Mantua, I; seek favour with Alexander VI; apprehensions of Cesare Borgia

Gonzaga, Caterina

Gonzaga, Chiara

Gonzaga, Eleonora; as Duchess of Urbino

Gonzaga, Federico

Gonzaga, Ferrante

Gonzaga, Francesco
see
Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua

Gonzaga, Giovanni

Gonzaga, Isabella
(née
d’Este), Marchioness of Mantua
see
Isabella Gonzaga

Gonzaga, Laura Bentivoglio

Gonzaga, Maddalena (Giovanni Sforza’s first wife)

Gonzaga, Ottaviano

Gonzaga, Sigismondo, Cardinal

Gonzaga da Bozzolo, Federico

Gouffier, Admiral Guillaume, seigneur de Bonnivet

Gramont, Gabriel, Cardinal – Bishop of Tarbes

Granada

Grasica, Juan

Gregorovius

Grotto, Bartolommeo

Guerrea, Anthoni

Guicciardini, Francesco: on Alexander VI’s capabilities; on LB – Alfonso d’Este marriage; on practice of poisoning; on Julius II; on Julius II”s participation in war; on Leo X’s plans for Ferrara; on Francis I of France; on Louis XII’s excesses
; History of Italy

Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino: commands papal army captured and released; and killing of Juan Gandia; deprived of status as papal vicar; greets LB on journey to Ferrara; flees on Cesare’s capture of Urbino; returns to Urbino; retrieves stolen possessions; LB asks to intercede for Cesare

Henry VII, King of England

Henry VIII, King of England

Hispaniola

Holy League

homosexuality

Imola

Infessura, Stefano

Inghirami, Tommaso (‘Fedra’)

Innocent VIII, Pope

Isabella, Queen of Castile and of Spain

Isabella Gonzaga
(née
d’Este), Marchioness of Mantua: letters from Brognolo; marriage to Francesco Gonzaga; on Cesare Borgia’s syphilis; told of attack on Alfonso Bisceglie; fear of Cesare Borgia; avoids commission to bring Sister Osanna to Ferrara; interest in LB’s dress and behaviour; character and qualities; LB meets; di Prosperi reports to; resents and disparages LB; and LB’s household; warns husband of Cesare’s plotting with Louis XII; congratulates Cesare for coup against conspirators; El Prete reports on LB to; rivalry with LB; hates Camposampiero; and Francesco’s sexual exploits; political and intellectual acumen; marriage relations; letters from LB on administrative matters; and Francesco’s relations with LB; pregnancy; LB sends gifts to; children; on Cesare’s death; praised in Pio’s eclogue; told of birth of LB’s son and LB’s relations with Francesco Gonzaga; protects Barbara Torelli; rules Mantua in husband’s absence; defends Mantua in papal war; LB pleads to intercede with Francesco in papal war; di Prosperi seeks favours from; and Most Holy League plans; and evacuation of Ercole from Ferrara; and Julius Il’s vendetta against Ferrara; leaves Mantua for Milan; Francesco rebukes; wishes to entertain Prospero Colonna; fondness for fruits in syrup; improved relations with LB; LB informs of Alfonso’s visit to Paris; exploits indulgences; LB sends condolences on Francesco’s death

Italian League

Italy: conditions and rule in; French invade

Jeanne de France, Queen of Louis XII

Jews: converted; expelled from Spain and Portugal; protected by d’Este

Julius II, Pope (Giuliano della Rovere); rivalry and relations with Alexander VI; backs Cesare Borgia; Alexander rewards; Alexander claims to protect; attitude to Cesare; character and qualities; elected; confines Cesare; power and ambitions; syphilis; attitude to Ferrara; negotiates over Cento and La Pieve with Ippolito d’Este; and feud between Giulio and Ippolito d’Este; Alfonso d’Este meets; enters Bologna; and Cesare’s escape from Spanish prison; accuses Alfonso d’Este of killing of Ercole Strozzi; hostility towards Ferrara and Alfonso d’Este; appoints Alfonso d’Este Gonfalonier of Church; death; pact with Venice against French; excommunicates Alfonso d’Este; moves to Bologna; ill health; forms league with Ferdinand of

Julius II, Pope –
cont.
Spain; forces defeated at Ravenna (1512); Alfonso seeks reconciliation and absolution from; and LB’s position in Ferrara

Ladislaus Jagiello, King of Hungary

Lampugnano, Pietro Giorgio

Lanciano

Lang, Matthaus, Cardinal – Bishop of Gurk

Lapalisse, Jacques de Chabannes, seigneur de (Gran Maestro)

Las Cases, Juan

Lazzarino, Domine Niccolo

League of St Mark

Leo X, Pope (Giovanni de‘Medici): on Borgias; continues war against Ferrara; captured; elected pope; coronation; suspends edict on Alfonso d’Este; retains territories; and Alfonso’s absence in Paris; and Martin Luther; letter from dying LB

Leonardo da Vinci

Lippomano (Venetian envoy)

Llopis, Juan

Lombardo, Antonio

Lopez, Juan, Cardinal of Capua

Lopez de Haro, Don Diego

Lorqua, Don Ramiro de

Louis XII, King of France: accession; conflict with Ferdinand of Aragon; Alexander VI supports; campaign in Italy; and Charlotte d’Albret’s marriage to Cesare; Borgias support; claim to Naples; secret treaty with Ferdinand of Aragon; and LB’s marriage to Alfonso d’Este; Ferrante d’Este meets; donates county of Cotignola to Alfonso d’Este; Duke Ercole meets; Cesare visits in Milan; obstructs Cesare; and Alexander’s death; refuses Cesare’s request for restitution of duchy; Alfonso d’Este’s alliance with; captures Genoa; and League of Cambrai; Ippolito d’Este visits; sends envoy to Rome to sue for peace; death

Louise, Princess of France

Louise, Queen Mother of France (‘Madama’)

Lucia Brocadelli of Narni, Sister

Luther, Martin

Luzio, Alessandro

Machiavelli, Niccolò: meets Cesare Borgia in Urbino; and League against Cesare; and Cesare’s military intentions; on Julius II’s attitude to Cesare; and capture of Michelotto; tribute to Cesare; condemns Venetians;
Discourses
;
The Prince

Maddaleni, Fausto Evangelista

Maffei, Federico

Magione, La

Magnanimo, Hieronymo

Malatesta, Dorotea

Malatesta, Pandolfo

Malatesta, Parisina

Malatesta, Roberto

Malegonelle, Antonio

Mallett, Michael

Malvezzi, Polissena

Mantegna, Andrea

Mantova, Dionisio da (‘Papino’)

Mantua: Gonzaga family rule, I; Guidobaldo Urbino flees to; LB visits; Isabella d’Este defends

Manutius, Aldus

Marches: under Borgia control

Marguerite d’Angoulême

Maria Enriques, Princess of Aragon

Mariano, Fra

Marignano, battle of (1515)

Marinello, Giovanni

Marrades, Juan

Marti, Bartolomeu (Cardinal Segorbe)

Martino de Amelia (jester)

Martino, Don

Mary, Queen of Louis XII

Matarazzo, F. (chronicler)

Matta, Andrea della

Matuzzi, Elisabetta

Matuzzi, Pietro

Maximilian I, Emperor; death

Medelana, Este villa at

Medici family

Medici, Giuliano de’

Medici, Lorenzo de’ (’the Magnificent’)

Medici, Lorenzo de’, the Younger

Medici, Piero de’

Medina del Campo, Castile

Meli da Crema, Fra Antonio

Melina, Count

Messisbugo, Cristoforo da

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelis, Fiammetta de’

Michelotto
see
Corella, Don Miguel de

Michiel, Cardinal Giovanni, Bishop of Porto

Mila, Adriana de: cares for LB; and supplicants for Alexander VI’s favours; Juan Gandia sends compliments to; and Giovanni Sforza; and Orsini; accompanies LB to Ferrara LB’s fondness for

Mila, Lorenzo da

Mila, Maria de

Milan: ruled by Sforzas; alliance with Naples; alliance with Alexander VI; as hereditary fief of French king

Mirafuentes, Gonsalvo de

Mirandola

Mirandola, Eleonora della

Mirandola, Julia della

Modena: plague in; in papal wars; Alfonso d’Este hopes to reclaim

Modena,Vincenzo da

Mole, Margarita

Mona

Moncada, Ugo de

Montefeltro, Elisabetta da
see
Elisabetta da Montefeltro, Duchess of Urbino

Montefeltro, Guidobaldo da
see
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

Monterotondo

Montesina, Madona

Montevegio, Count Ottaviano da

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