genazzano

Updated: June 27, 2025

Lucretia's position, owing to these circumstances, became exceedingly trying. Her tears show that she possessed a heart. She loved, and perhaps for the first time. Alfonso wrote her from Genazzano, urgently imploring her to follow him, and his letters fell into the hands of the Pope, who compelled her to write her husband and ask him to return.

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