On his right hand he had Lucretia and on his left Sancia, sitting on cushions.

It was Whitsuntide, and the two princesses and their suites boldly occupied the priests' benches in S.Peter's, and, according to Burchard, the populace was greatly shocked.
Three months later, August 10, 1496, Alexander's eldest son, Don Giovanni, Duke of Gandia, entered Rome, where he remained, his father having determined to make him a great prince.[44] It is not related whether he brought his wife, Donna Maria, with him.
For the first time Alexander had all his children about him, and in the Borgo of the Vatican there were no less than three nepot-courts.
Giovanni resided in the Vatican, Lucretia in the palace of S.Maria in Portico, Giuffre in the house of the Cardinal of Aleria near the Bridge of S.Angelo, and Caesar in the same Borgo.
They all were pleasure-loving upstarts who were consumed with a desire for honors and power; all were young and beautiful; except Lucretia, all were vicious, graceful, seductive scoundrels, and, as such, among the most charming and attractive figures in the society of old Rome.

For only the narrowest observer, blind to everything but their infamous deeds, can paint the Borgias simply as savage and cruel brutes, tiger-cubs by nature.

They were privileged malefactors, like many other princes and potentates of that age.

They mercilessly availed themselves of poison and poignard, removing every obstacle to their ambition, and smiled when the object was attained.
If we could see the life which these unrestrained bastards led in the Vatican, where their father, conscious now of his security and greatness, was enthroned, we should indeed behold strange things.