Lucrezia Borgia remains one of the most misunderstood women of the Renaissance. For centuries, her name has been linked to scandal, poison, and ruthless ambition, creating an image shaped more by ...

“Everyone abhors me,” sings one of history’s most notoriously cruel women early on in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, “and yet I wasn’t born for such a sad fate.” That may not be enough to make her a ...