elegantisima

Updated: May 25, 2025

In the list which is still preserved are the names of many of her maids of honor; her first lady-in-waiting was Angela Borgia, una damigella elegantisima, as one of the chroniclers of Ferrara describes her, who is said to have been a very beautiful woman, and who was the subject of some verses by the Roman poet Diomede Guidalotto.

Ferdinand Gregorovius - Lucretia Borgia: According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day