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Updated: September 23, 2025
In this mood he again returned to Ferrara, at a moment when the duke was too much occupied with the solemnities of his own marriage to attend to the complaints of the poet.
"Don't tell me he's sent you that money already!" "Not at all. He has sent me his wife and child, that I may forward them to him at Ferrara, out of my goodness, and the boundless prosperity which has followed his good wishes I, who am a great signor in his eyes, and an insatiable giver of five-franc pieces the instrument of a perpetual special providence.
By her side were the princes of Ferrara and the Cardinal of Cosenza. Her brother Cæsar accompanied her a short distance, and then returned to the Vatican with Cardinal Ippolito. Thus Lucretia Borgia departed, leaving Rome and a terrible past behind her forever. The report of this agent, who signs himself El Prete, is preserved in the archives of Mantua.
The Republic of Venice had already secured possession of a part of Romagna, and was planning to cut Ferrara off from the mouth of the Po; at the same time Julius II was scheming to take Bologna, and if he succeeded in this he would doubtless also attack Ferrara. In view of these circumstances it was a fortunate thing for the State that its chief was a practical, cool-headed man like Alfonso.
Parma, Modena, Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, Mantua Vicenza, Verona, Bassano, all are now at peace with each other, and firmly united in the national sentiment that travellers were meant to be eaten alive by Italians.
We started early in the morning, travelled through Ferrara and Bologna, and reached Cesena, where we put up at the posting-house. We got up early the next day and walked quietly to the house of George Franzia, a wealthy peasant, who was owner of the treasure. It was only a quarter of a mile from the city, and the good man was agreeably surprised by our arrival.
Less sombre than 'Lucia, and quite as tuneful, is 'Lucrezia Borgia, once a prime favourite at Covent Garden, but now rarely heard. Lucrezia Borgia, the wife of Alfonso of Ferrara, has recognised Gennaro, a young Venetian, as an illegitimate son of her own, and watches over him with tender interest, though she will not disclose the real relation in which they stand to one another.
As the hours passed he forgot himself again, and thought only of Ortensia. In his imagination he fancied her already far on her way to Rovigo in the jolting coach with her captors; in the very coach, perhaps, in which he had brought her to Ferrara only last night. He called up her face, and saw it as pale as death; her eyes were half closed and her lips sharp-drawn with pain.
But the sufferings that had thus maimed him bodily and mentally had spiritually ennobled him; and there is not a more touching incident in all history than his entreaty to be allowed to kiss the hand of the cruel tyrant, as a last favour before leaving Ferrara for ever, in token of his gratitude for the benefits conferred upon him in happier days, a favour which Alfonso, to his eternal disgrace, refused to grant.
Judging from the parlour, it could not be said that the Ursulines of Ferrara were living in reprehensible luxury. In three or four minutes the door opened again and the Mother Superior entered.
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