At the same time her history as Duchess consists, for the most part, in the record of the birth of children.

Like her mother Vannozza, she gave herself, in the decline of life, to works of charity and mercy.

After this fashion the bright and baleful dames of the Renaissance saved their souls.
But to return to the domestic history of Alexander.

The murder of the Duke of Gandia brings the whole Borgia family upon the scene.

It is related with great circumstantiality and with surprising sangfroid by Burchard, the Pope's Master of the Ceremonies.