Dame di compagnia di Lucrezia Borgia

She was accompanied by her old friends and relations, Geronima Borgia, Adriana de Mila and her ladies, each with her personal servant. Headed by the beautiful Angela Borgia, always known as Dona Angela, they included ‘Elisabetha senese [of Siena] and her daughter, Elisabetha perusina [from Perugia], Catherina spagnola [from Spain], Alexandra, Geronima [who later marriedLucrezia’s favourite doctor, Lodovico Bonaccioli], Nicola [who married into the Ferrarese aristocraticfamily of Trotti], Camilla, Catherinella negra [a favourite black slave], four chambermaids, la Napolitana[the Neapolitan] with two daughters, Samaritana, and Camilla greca [the Greek] and two handmaids[‘ancille’], and a ‘Madonna Joanna’ (possibly Juana de Moncada, married to one of Alexander’snephews), with four personal servants. Unmentioned in the archive list or in the list provided by theFerrarese chronicler Zambotti was a woman named Drusilla, reputed to be Cesare’s lover. The onlyevidence for this Drusilla is an epigram by the poet Fausto Evangelista Maddaleni entitled ‘On the sorrow of Cesare for the departure of Lucrezia Borgia and Drusilla’.

‘the first is Madonna Hieronyma [or Geronima] Borgia, sister of the Cardinal, who they say has the French disease, the other is called Madonna Angela [Borgia] who I think will please you because she is my favourite, and she is the natural sister of Madonna Hieronyma, there is a Catalina from Valencia whom some admire and some do not, a girl from Perugia who is beautiful, another Catalina, two Neapolitan girls, one called Cintia, the other Catalina, who are not very good looking but graceful, and a Moor, the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and gay and well dressed, she wears bracelets of gold and pearls.. I understand she is the lady’s dearest favourite.’

Una dama di compagnia in una corte nobiliare è un'assistente personale femminile di una regina, una principessa o un'altra nobildonna di rango superiore. Una dama di compagnia è spesso una nobildonna di rango inferiore. I suoi compiti, ben distinti da quelli della servitù, variano da corte a corte.

Angela Borgia la seguirà poi a Ferrara divenendo una dama molto nota, ed era sua cugina.
Lucrezia Lopez si sposò con non ricordo chi quando Lucrezia era assieme a Giovanni Sforza, il matrimonio fu felice sino a quando ilmarito di questa non tirò le cuoia e allora lei si chiuse in convento.
La schiavetta era una moretta, fidata di Lucrezia, che starà con lei sino a Ferrara.

Ah e come servetta c'era anche la povera Pentesilea, pace all'anima sua.

ragazzina di colore (periodo ferrarese se non erro)

"caterinella negra" se non erro