Carlo Sforza († 1483), Count of Magenta, second illegitimate son of Galeazzo Maria Sforza († 1476), Duke of Milan

Countess Bianca Simonetta († 1487)

Alessandro Bentivoglio (1476-1532), the third son of the Lord of Bologna, Giovanni II. Bentivoglio († 1508), and his wife Ginevra Sforza († 1507)

1. her son Sforza († 1530)
2. another son (Giovanni ?), who died as a child

3. her daughter Ginevra, born in 1503, deceased presumably in 1541; in 1524 she was married to Giovanni II. del Carretto (1502-1535), Margrave of Finale and Noli; she had the following children:

   1. Alfonso II. (1525-1583)
   2. Ippolita (1527-1574)
   3. Alessandro (1528-1596)
   4. Fabrizio (1531-1597)
   5. Sforza Andrea (1534-1602)

   as widow Ginevra moved to the convent of her younger sister Alessandra

4. her daughter Alessandra, born c. 1504; she became nun in the Monastero Maggiore in Alessandria (Benedictine Order) and took the name "Bianca"; in 1522 she became Abbess of this monastery
5. her daughter Violanta, born c. 1505, deceased in 1550, in 1520 she became married to Gian Paolo Sforza (1497-1535), first Margrave of Caravaggio, a son of Lodovico il Moro Sforza; their children: Lodovica (c. 1521-after 1561) and Muzio I. (c. 1525-1552)

as widow Violanta moved like her elder sister Ginevra and her youngest sister Ippolita to the convent of her sister Alessandra

6. her daughter Ippolita, born c. 1518/19; she was betrothed or married to Roberto Ambrogio da Sanseverino, but her marriage was never consummated because of the early death of her husband in 1532; after that she moved to the convent of her sister Alessandra and became a nun later in her life; as nun she took the name "Francesca"

• Maike Vogt-Luerssen: Die Sforza II: Caterina Sforza – Tochter einer Kriegerdynastie. Norderstedt 2008
• Maike Vogt-Lüerssen: Wer ist Mona Lisa – Identifizierung einer Unbekannten mit Hilfe historischer Quellen
• Maike Vogt-Lüerssen: Die Frauen der Sforza I: Bianca Maria Visconti – Die Stammmutter der Sforza. Independently published 2020
• Maike Vogt-Luerssen: Die Sforza III: Isabella von Aragon und ihr Hofmaler Leonardo da Vinci (in German). Norderstedt 2010