Lucrezia saves him and loves him;
You are looking nice my sister, Lucrezia Borgia.
Lucrezia Borgia's father used her to maximize his power.
Lucrezia's hair was bright and blonde, but that wasn't nature.
In 1893, the artist John Collier painted Cesare, Lucrezia, and their father seated around a banquet table.
Rumors abound that Cesare murdered his sister Lucrezia's husband, Alfonso of Aragon, after the
man's political influence was on the wane.
The mother of his two most notorious offspring, Cesare and Lucrezia(he had seven children in all),
was his mistress Vannozza de Cattani.
But it's fun to wander on your own and let yourself get lost on the
very streets where Julius Caesar and Lucrezia Borgia once trod.
On June 14, 1497, Giovanni Borgia, brother to Cesare and Lucrezia, was found with his throat slit
and about nine stab wounds in his torso.
In the meantime, Lucrezia's ambitious and ruthless brother,
Cesare Borgia, formed an alliance with Louis XII of France, and his sister's recent marriage to an Aragonese became an embarrassment.
He stayed with her until he became pope in 1492, when he took up
with the gorgeous and much younger Giulia Farnese who was a pal of his daughter Lucrezia.
By the turn of the century, Lucrezia's husband Giovanni Sforza turned up dead
at the papal palace(just one of the murders linked to the Borgias,) and Cesare was no longer a cardinal.
Lucrezia, though, made sure hers shined like the Sun by rinsing it in lye
and lemon juice for hours, then drying it out in the sunlight for the better part of a day.