Lucrezia Borgia
History Called Her a Poisoner. She Was Actually a Patron of Genius.
They called me poison. I call it patronage.
History paints me with venom and vice, but those who knew me speak of music, letters, and a court where genius thrived. I welcomed poets and philosophers, artists and astronomers, and in my salons, ideas bloomed as freely as roses in spring. Let us speak of beauty, of sacrifice, of the art that outlives kings.
What I'm Into: my court at Ferrara, the sound of a lute at dusk, the poetry of Petrarch, arranging marriages, ink-stained fingers
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