Borgia (Italian ˈbordʒa) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Cesare (ˈtʃezare), son of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). 1475--1507, Italian cardinal, politician, and military leader; model for Machiavelli's The Prince |
| 2. | his sister, Lucrezia (luˈkrɛttsja), daughter of Rodrigo Borgia. 1480--1519, Italian noblewoman. After her third marriage (1501), to the Duke of Ferrara, she became a patron of the arts and science |
| 3. | See Alexander VI Rodrigo (rodˈriɡo). |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |