Lucrezia Borgia

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Seductress. Schemer. Poisoner. Such words (and worse) have often described Lucrezia Borgia, one of the scandalous children of Pope Alexander VI. Though Lucrezia is known as a Renaissance femme fatale, when we cut through the rumors and myths, the truth is much more complicated and somehow even more jaw-dropping than her already-spicy reputation.

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Seductresses. Traitors. Tyrants. These are the ruthless and disobedient women that all the history books want us to forget.

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Seductress. Schemer. Poisoner. These words have been used to describe Lucrezia Borgia, but few know her even darker history.

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The Borgias Facts. "Borgia" is synonymous with treachery, hedonism, and scandal, and its family members make Game of Thrones look like child's play.



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