Paolo


 * This article is about the character. For other uses see Paolo (disambiguation).

Paolo was a young servant of Giovanni Sforza, working as a groom. He had an affair with Giovanni's wife, Lucrezia Borgia, and fathered a child with her.

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The young servant of Giovanni Sforza. He is outraged by his master's treatment of Lucrezia Borgia and sabotages Giovanni's saddle, causing his master to suffer a serious injury. He and Lucrezia later have an affair, and he fathers a child with her. After this discovery, he helped her escape from the Sforza household, at the cost of a violent whipping from his master for it. He travels to Rome to search for her. With the help of Lucrezia's brother Cesare Borgia, and Micheletto Corella, he is reunited with Lucrezia and his child for one night. Shortly after he is betrayed and murdered by Juan Borgia, who hanged him to make it look like a suicide.