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• 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.

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Borgia, Lucrezia Cultural  

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

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Lucrezia Borgia Borgia, Lucrezia

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

From week to week, he introduced hour-long segments on such diverse historical figures as George Washington, William Shakespeare, Geronimo, Lucrezia Borgia, Eva “Evita” Perón and Baby Face Nelson.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2019

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

January 2011 Mike Figgis makes his operatic debut with Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2010

Lucrezia Borgia and Tophana were not the only great female poisoners Italy has produced.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

Borgia, Lucrezia, 419; character cleared of calumny, 420.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington