Caesar talked freely with his sister, and among other things said that the order had been given to kill Sforza.

When he had departed, Lucretia said to Jacomino: "Did you hear what was said?
Go and tell him." This the chamberlain immediately did, and Giovanni Sforza threw himself on a Turkish horse and rode in twenty-four hours to Pesaro, where the beast dropped dead.[50] According to letters of the Venetian envoy in Rome, Sforza fled in March, in Holy Week.

Under some pretext he went to the Church of S.
Onofrio, where he found the horse waiting for him.[51] The request for the divorce was probably not made by Lucretia, but by her father and brothers, who wished her to be free to enter into a marriage which would advance their plans.

We are ignorant of what was now taking place in the Vatican, and we do not know that Lucretia made any resistance; but if she did, it certainly was not of long duration, for she does not appear to have loved her husband.

Pesaro's escape did not please the Borgias.