Alessandro Sforza (1409-1473), youngest brother of Francesco Sforza (1401-1466), Duke of Milan

unknown mistress of her father

Half-siblings:

• her half-sister or sister Antonia (1445-1500), since 1460 married to Ottaviano, Count of Martinengo delle Palle († 1485)
• her half-sister Battista (1446-1472), since 10. February 1460 married to Federigo da Montefeltro († 1482), Count and later Duke of Urbino
• her half-brother Costanzo I. (1447-1483), Lord of Pesaro; two illegitimate sons: Giovanni (1466-1510) and Galeazzo (1470-1519)

1. Sante Bentivoglio (1426-1463), Lord of Bologna; marriage on 8. March 1452
2. Giovanni II. Bentivoglio (1443-1508), Lord of Bologna, son of Annibale I. Bentivoglio († 1445); marriage on 2. May 1464; apart from his children with Ginevra Sforza he had 7 illegitimate sons and 4 - 5 illegitimate daughters

from her first marriage to Sante Bentivoglio:

1. her daughter Costanza (1458-1491); since 1473 married to Antonmaria Pico da Mirandola
2. her son Ercole, born in 1459, he lived as a Condottiere
3. and two further daughters who died, when they were still small children

from her second marriage to Giovanni II. Bentivoglio: she gave birth to 16 children, 11 of which reached adulthood:

1. her daughter Bianca, born in 1467 and married to Count Niccolò Rangoni of Spilamberto (Captain-General of the Bolognese troops)
2. her daughter Francesca (1468-1504), her first husband was Galeotto Manfredi of Faenza, whom she murdered in 1488 (in this painting she is still depicted as a widow with a black veil); her second husband was Guido Torelli; her daughter Ippolita (1501-1521) by her second husband married the court poet of Urbino, Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) in 1516
3. her son Annibale II. (1469-1540), since 1487 married to Lucrezia d'Este (1472-1518), an illegitimate daughter of Duke Ercole I. of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio
4. her daughter Leonora (1470-1540), married to Ghiberto Pio of Carpi and Sassuolo; her son Alessandro († 1518) married the beautiful Angela Borgia Lanzol
5. her son Antongaleazzo (1472-1525), who became Protonotary in the Papal Chancery
6. her daughter Camilla (1473-1541), who had to spend her life as a nun
7. her daughter Violanta, born in 1475 and married to Pandolfo Malatesta of Rimini
8. her son Alessandro (1476-1532), Count of Campagna, married to Ippolita Sforza († 1520/21), a niece of Lodovico Maria il Moro Sforza, Duke of Milan
9. her daughter Laura (1477- 1523), since 1491 married to Giovanni Gonzaga (1474-1523), youngest brother of Margrave Gian Francesco II. Gonzaga of Mantua
10. her son Ermes (1482-1513), married to Jacopa Orsini – he was said to be a cruel and violent man
11. her daughter Isotta, born around 1484, who like her sister Camilla supposedly spent her life as a nun

• Cecilia M. Ady: The Bentivoglio of Bologna – A Study in Despotism. Oxford, London 1937