[Lucretia Borgia by Ferdinand Gregorovius]@TWC D-Link bookLucretia Borgia CHAPTER VIII 7/14
Alexander himself had put her there as a lady of honor to his daughter.
Her husband, Orsini, preferred, or was compelled, to live in his castle of Bassanello, or to stay on one of the estates which the Pope had presented to him, the husband of Madonna Giulia, "Christ's bride," as the satirists called her, instead of remaining in Rome to be a troublesome witness of his shame. A remarkable letter of Lorenzo Pucci to his brother Giannozzo, written the 23d and 24th of December, 1493, from Rome, discloses these and other family secrets.
He shows us the most private scenes in Lucretia's palace.
Lorenzo had been invited by Cardinal Farnese to go with him to Rome to witness the Christmas festivities.
He accompanied him from Viterbo to Rignano, where the barons of the Savelli house, kinsmen of the cardinal, formally received them, after which they continued their journey on horseback to Rome.
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