In the 1939 movie, The Women, Rosalind Russell's character describes her soon-to-be ex husband's behavior when he hid dictagraphs around the house to record her during an argument when she used foul language. The name Borgia has been used to describe someone or something. It wasn't just Lucrezia who was scandalous and considered evil. I will only pity the poor woman who suffered terribly and whose name was so undeservedly demonized through all of history. Although I will never know with absolute certainty the truth behind their family history, I will never again view the name of Lucrezia Borgia with the same repugnance and contempt. These factors seem a truer indication of her character. Also, most telling, is the reverence and respect accorded to her by the townspeople of Ferrara where her husband's family ruled. There was the report by the "spy" who watched her and later attested to her good character, or the letters written by her good friends, or her last husband who shared her life and children for years and was won over in time to feel love and affection. I gather that the truth lay more in what was written about her from those who closely observed her or who were intimately acquainted with her. Her father's political enemies, through their hatred for her family, as well as a well developed misogynistic attitude towards women of that time period, fabricated an entire persona to strike at her family and that this undeserved reputation has followed her name down through the ages. What a tragic pity it is if she had been truly an innocent, yet was vilified and rendered such a false reputation for monstrous evil.
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