In Rome she may have made the acquaintance of this scholar.[36] Nor was the young poet Guido Posthumus Silvester in Pesaro during her time, for he was then a student in Padua.

Lucretia must have regretted the absence from her court of this soulful and aspiring poet, and her charming personality might have served him for an inspiration for verses quite different from those which he later addressed to the Borgias.
Sforza's beautiful consort was received with open arms in Pesaro, where she immediately made many friends.

She was in the first charm of her youthful bloom, and fate had not yet brought the trouble into her life which subsequently made her the object either of horror or of pity.

If she enjoyed any real love in her married life with Sforza she would have passed her days in Pesaro as happily as the queen of a pastoral comedy.
But this was denied her.

The dark shadows of the Vatican reached even to the Villa Imperiale on Monte Accio.