Her departure from Rome took place on January 6, and so she passes out of this chronicle, which, after all, has been little concerned with her.
Of the honour done her everywhere on that journey to Ferrara, the details are given elsewhere, particularly in the book devoted to her history and rehabilitation by Herr Gregorovius.

After all, the real Lucrezia Borgia fills a comparatively small place in the actual history of her house.

It is in the fictions concerning her family that she is given such unenviable importance, and presented as a Maenad, a poisoner, and worse.

In reality she appears to us, during her life in Rome, as a rather childish, naive, and entirely passive figure, important only in so far as she found employment at her father's or brother's hands for the advancement of their high ambitions and unscrupulous aims.
In the popular imagination she lives chiefly as a terrific poisoner, an appalling artist in venenation.

It is remarkable that this should be the case, for not even the scandal of her day so much as suggests that she was connected--directly or even indirectly--with a single case of poisoning.