August 24th the French ambassador, Louis de Villeneuve, made his entry into Rome; near S.Spirito a masked man rode up and embraced him.

The man was Caesar.

However openly he committed his crimes, he frequently went about Rome in disguise.
The murder of the youthful Alfonso of Aragon was by far the most tragic deed committed by the Borgias, and his fate was more terrible than even that of Astorre Manfredi.

If Lucretia really loved her husband, as there is every reason to suppose she did, his end must have caused her the greatest anguish; and, even if she had no affection for him, all her feelings must have been aroused against the murderer to whose fiendish ambition the tragedy was due.

She must also have rebelled against her father, who regarded the crime with such indifference.
None of the reports of the day describe the circumstances in which she found herself immediately after the murder, nor events in the Vatican just preceding it.