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Updated: May 4, 2025
A bill for making dresses and scenery that were employed in a "festa" composed by Messer Lorenzo for the duke's daughters is preserved in the Gonzaga archives, and at Lucrezia's wedding, in 1487, this renowned master travelled to Bologna to direct the fêtes given in honour of her marriage.
The faithful friend had brought the sad news himself. No one could tell how Filippo had died. A few short hours of pain and then all was over. Some talked of poison. But who could tell? There had just been time to send his farewell to Lucrezia, and to pray his friend to take charge of little Filippino. So, as she listened, joy died out of Lucrezia's life.
Ursula, patroness of Lucrezia's youngest sister. I begged Donna Cecilia to bring her as well as her son. My proposal being readily accepted, I gave notice that the phaeton would be at Donna Cecilia's door at seven o'clock, and that I would come myself with a carriage for two persons.
The second act opens in the public square of Ferrara, with the palace of the Borgias on the right. In the next scene Genarro, who has been taunted by his friends with being a victim of Lucrezia's fascinations, recklessly rushes up to the palace door and strikes off the first letter of her name with his dagger.
Thus much had Madonna Lucrezia's promises led me to expect, and it was with a soul full of joyous expectation that I entered the great man's closet. He received me in a manner calculated to set me at my ease, and yet there was about him a something that overawed me.
She had a desire to-day, after Lucrezia's conversation with her, to get at the Sicilian man's point of view in regard to women. "Don't you think women want to be protected?" she asked. "What from, signora?" There was still laughter in his eyes. "Not from us, anyway," he added. "Lucrezia there she wants me for her husband. All Marechiaro knows it."
"Am I going to be ridiculous?" she said to herself. "Am I going to be one of the women I despise?" Just then she realized that love may become a tyrant, ministering to the soul with persecutions. Sebastiano took his arm from Lucrezia's waist as Hermione came down to the terrace, and said: "Buona sera, signora. Is the signore coming down yet?" He flung out his arm towards the mountain.
Lucrezia's father was furious, the good nuns were dismayed, and every one shook their heads over this last adventure of the Florentine painter. But luckily for Filippo, the great Cosimo still stood his friend and helped him through it all. Now indeed was Lucrezia as happy as the day was long, and when the spring returned once more to Florence, a baby Filippo came with the violets and lilies.
John Sforza, grandson of Alexander Sforza, brother of the great Francis I, Duke of Milan, was lord of Pesaro; the geographical situation of this place, an the coast, on the way between Florence and Venice, was wonderfully convenient for his purpose; so Alexander first cast an eye upon him, and as the interest of both parties was evidently the same, it came about that John Sforza was very soon Lucrezia's second husband.
Lucrezia's readiness in giving way to her father's wishes brought her a new gift from him: this was the town and territory of Sermoneta, which belonged to the Caetani.
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