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Lucretia Borgia

CHAPTER III
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If Vannozza decorated her salon with any likenesses, that of Cardinal Rodrigo certainly must have been among the number.

There was likewise a shrine with relics and pictures of the saints and one of the Madonna, the lamp constantly burning before it.
Heavy furniture,--great wide beds with canopies; high, brown wooden chairs, elaborately carved, upon which cushions were placed; and massive tables, with tops made of marble or bits of colored wood,--was ranged around the walls.

Among the great chests there was one which stood out conspicuously in the salon, and which contained the dowry of linen.

It was in such a chest--the chest of his sister--that the unfortunate Stefano Porcaro concealed himself when he endeavored to escape after his unsuccessful attempt to excite an uprising on the fifth of January, 1453.

His sister and another woman sat on the chest, better to protect him, but the officers pulled him out.
Although we can only state what was then the fashion, if Vannozza had any taste for antiquities her salon must have been adorned with them.


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