Ginevra Sforza

Ginevra Sforza (144016 May 1507) was the wife and counselor of Giovanni II Bentivoglio, lord of Bologna. Birth and first marriage Ginevra Sforza was born in Ancona in 1440, the illegitimate daughter of Alessandro Sforza, Lord of Pesaro. She married Sante Bentivoglio, a cousin of Giovanni II Bentivoglio, on 19 May 1454 at the church of San Giacomo Maggiore. She gave her first husband two children: Constance (1458–1491), who married Antonmaria Pico della Mirandola, and Ercole Bentivoglio (1459–1507), a condottiero, who married Barbara Torelli. Second marriage