Museum
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI, 2, 20123 Milano MI
Renaissance picture gallery holding a jeweled relic case with a Borgia noblewoman's stolen lock of hair.
This guide to the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan opens with Lord Byron reaching into a locked case to take a keepsake: a lock of hair belonging to Lucrezia Borgia, sealed away since 1685. It traces the secret affair behind it, coded love letters Lucrezia wrote to the Venetian poet Pietro Bembo during her marriage to the Duke of Ferrara, and how Byron talked his way close enough to memorize the letters before he acted. Caravaggio, Raphael and Leonardo's own notebooks hang in the rooms nearby.
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