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🫦Giulia Farnese was an Italian noblewoman, a mistress to Pope Alexander VI, and the sister of Pope Paul III. 🫦Known as Giulia la bella (Italian for ‘Julia the beautiful’), she was a member of the noble Farnese family, who were prominent leaders in the Italian regions of Parma and Piacenza. 🫦After marrying into the noble Orsini family in the Papal States, Farnese soon acquainted herself with, and initiated an affair with, the Spanish Cardinal Rodrigo de Borja. 🫦When the cardinal was elected Pope, Farnese continued the increasingly advantageous liaison, which enabled her to have her brother Alessandro made a cardinal, until losing Alexander’s favor at the turn of the century. 🫦Farnese spent most of her later years governing the castle of Carbognano, previously a property which Alexander had given to her husband.