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Lucretia Borgia

CHAPTER XVI
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The Venetian ambassador Paolo Capello refers to some quarrel between Lucretia and her father.

He departed from Rome, September 16, 1500, and on his return to Venice made a report to his government on the condition of affairs, in which he says: "Madonna Lucretia, who is gracious and generous, formerly was in high favor with the Pope, but she is so no longer." August 30th, Lucretia, accompanied by a retinue of six hundred riders, set out from Rome for Nepi, of which city she was mistress.

There, according to Burchard, she hoped to recover from the perturbation which the death of the Duke of Biselli had caused her..


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