theborgiasita:It isn’t known precisely when Giulia caught the eye of the womanizing Rodrigo Borgia [
theborgiasita:It isn’t known precisely when Giulia caught the eye of the womanizing Rodrigo Borgia […] [b]ut by the time Cardinal Borgia was elected Pope, Giulia Farnese was his official mistress, installed in a cheerful domestic arrangement with her apparently compliant mother-in-law, Adriana da Mila, and the young Lucrezia Borgia. The deftness with which Giulia handled her volatile Pope throughout their long and evidently passion-filled affair indicates that the woman nicknamed the Bride of Christ had some brains under all that hair. Kate Quinn, novelist [x] -- source link
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