Lucretia Borgia, &c.
Stanza lxix. line 5.
Lucretia Borgia was a daughter of Pope Alexander VI. who was three times married, and took for her third husband Alphonso, duke of Ferrara.
Nor the step-daughter of this noble dame,
Will I, Renata, hight of France, forget, &c.
Stanza lxxii. lines 1 and 2.
Renata was daughter of Louis XII. of France, and Anne of Bretagne, and daughter-in-law of Lucretia Borgia, since she was married to Hercules the Second, her son, who was lord of Ferrara after the death of his father.
’Twere long to tell of Alda de Sansogna, &c.
Stanza lxxiii. line 1.
Alda was the daughter of Otho, whom we read of as given in wedlock to Albertazo in the third canto, in which the other ladies mentioned in this stanza are also commemorated. I refer the reader thither, if he has any pleasure in the chase, and has patience to run the heel upon this stale scent.
