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Feb 24
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A Very Borgia Break Up | History's Worst...

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If people are still talking about your divorce and rumoured penis related issues 500 years later, it's safe to say you've had a bad break up.


For the final episode in our Worst Breakups series, we’re heading back to Renaissance Rome to meet Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of history’s naughtiest pope, and her first husband, Giovanni Sforza, in a story that ended mired in controversy over incest and impotence.


For this episode, Kate is joined by Catherine Fletcher, author of ‘The Beauty and the Terror’, ‘The Black Prince of Florence’ and ‘Our Man in Rome: The Divorce of Henry VIII’.


This episode was edited by Hannah Feodorov. The producer was Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.


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