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Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
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Publisher: Ward Library
Published: Aug 30 2026
Pages: 148
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Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
LUCRETIA'S JOURNEY TO FERRARA
A
lthough the escort which was taking the Duchess Lucretia to Ferrara
traveled by easy stages, the journey was fatiguing; for the roads, espe-
cially in winter, were bad, and the weather, even in the vicinity of Rome,
was frequently wet and cold.
Not until the seventh day did they reach Foligno. As the report which the
Ferrarese ambassadors sent their lord from that place contains a vivid de-
scription of the journey, we quote it at length:
ILLUSTRIOUS AND HONORED MASTER: Although we wrote your
Excellency from Narni that we would travel from Terni to Spoleto, and from
Spoleto to this place without stopping, the illustrious Duchess and her ladies
were so fatigued that she decided to rest a day in Spoleto and another in
Foligno. We, therefore, shall not leave here until to-morrow morning, and
shall not arrive at Urbino before next Tuesday, that is the eighteenth of
the current month, for to-morrow we shall reach Nocera, Saturday Gualdo,
Sunday Gubbio, Monday Cagli, and Tuesday Urbino, where we shall rest
3 FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS
another day, that is Wednesday. On the twentieth we shall set out for Pe-
saro, and so on from city to city, as we have already written your Excellency.
We feel certain, however, that the duchess will stop frequently to rest, con-
sequently we shall not reach Ferrara before the last of the present or the first
of next month, and perhaps not until the second or third. We therefore
thought it well to write your Excellency from here, letting you know where
we were and where we expected to be, so that you might arrange matters as
you thought best. If you wish us not to arrive in Ferrara until the second or
third, it would not be difficult so to arrange it; but if you think it would be
better for us to reach the city the last of this month or the first of February,
write us to that effect, and we will endeavor, as we have hitherto done, to
shorten the periods of rest.
I mention this because the illustrious Donna Lucretia is of a delicate consti-
tution and, like her ladies, is unaccustomed to the saddle, and because we
notice that she does not wish to be worn out when she reaches Ferrara.
In all the cities through which her Majesty passes she is received with every
show of affection and with great honors, and presented with numerous gifts
by the women. Everything is done for her comfort. She was welcomed ev-
erywhere and, as she was formerly ruler of Spoleto, she was well known to
the people. Her reception here in Foligno was more cordial and accompa-
nied by greater manifestations of joy than anywhere else outside of Rome,
for not only did the signors of the city, as the officials of the commune are
called, clad in red silk, come on foot to meet her and accompany her to her
inn on the Piazza, but at the gate she was confronted by a float upon which
was a person representing the Roman Lucretia with a dagger in her hand,
who recited some verses to the effect that her Majesty excelled herself in gra-
ciousness, modesty, intelligence, and understanding, and that therefore she
would yield her own place to her.
There was also a float upon which was a cupid, and on the summit, with the
golden apple in his hand, stood Paris, who repeated some stanzas, the gist of
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