Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia,the powerful Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI during the Renaissance and the younger sister of Cesare Borgia. Ruthlessly betrothed by her father twice before her thirteenth birthday, in order to secure political alliances. She was also rumored to have been sexually involved with her father and brothers. The Borgia later came to synonym to the ruthless Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy. Lucrezia was cast as a femme fatale, a role she has been portrayed as in many artworks, novels, and films