LUCREZIA & CESARE BORGIA + hugs

"There was much talk about the costumes ordered by the women and above all about the bride’s dress. Those who had met her [Lucrezia] described her as one of the most seductive women, as well as wealthy and generous. “Pray heaven this be true,” said the courtiers. Women exchanged information on the new Duchess’s fashions. It was known that she did not do her hair in curls but let it fall over her shoulders, hardly plaiting it at all, or else she wore it in the style of a young girl as we see in Pinturicchio’s fresco at the Vatican and on the medal struck at Ferrara called the Amorino Bendato. Her bearing was elegant and dignified, and as someone wrote, “she carries herself so gracefully that when she walks she hardly seems to move.”