Cesare [Borgia]

?On February 26, 1500, Cesare [Borgia] entered Rome in triumph. He was dressed in his habitual black velvet, surrounded by a bodyguard dressed too in his somber colors. Caterina Sforza, the late Lady of Imola and Forli, was dragged behind him in golden chains and, after being displayed to the mob, was imprisoned in Sant? Angelo.?

?E.R. Chamberlin, from The Bad Popes, 1969. Cesare was the (obviously) illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI.