Jump To:

• Lucrezia Borgia
  Lucrezia Borgia

  noun

  an opera (1833) by Gaetano Donizetti.
• Borgia, Lucrezia
  Borgia, Lucrezia

  A sister of the Italian politician Cesare Borgia and, like him, famous for her treachery.

Lucrezia Borgia

American  

[loo-kret-see-uh bawr-juh, bawr-zhuh, -kree-shuh, loo-kre-tsyah bawr-jah] / luˈkrɛt si ə ˈbɔr dʒə, ˈbɔr ʒə, -ˈkri ʃə, luˈkrɛ tsjɑ ˈbɔr dʒɑ /

noun

1. an opera (1833) by Gaetano Donizetti.

---

Borgia, Lucrezia Cultural  

1. A sister of the Italian politician Cesare Borgia and, like him, famous for her treachery.

---

Example Sentences

Told during a Zoom interview that Sofia seemed more like Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de’ Medici than a comic book character, Milioti matter-of-factly says, “That’s certainly incredible company to be in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

She had been engaged to fill in that night for an indisposed Marilyn Horne, singing Lucrezia Borgia in a concert production by the American Opera Society at Carnegie Hall.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2018

His first novel, “The Pope’s Daughter,” a reimagined life of Lucrezia Borgia, appeared in 2015.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2016

And certainly, I'll be dying to see how envisions Berlioz's Damnation of Faust next May – as well as what Mike Figgis makes of Lucrezia Borgia in January.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2010

On the second night I gave Lucrezia Borgia, with Giuglini, Gassier, Alboni, and Titiens in leading parts.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.