For we looked as if we had despoiled Florence of brocade.
Source, in full
Letter to Pope Alexander VI. On the impression made by herself, Giovanni, and the Pope's daughter Lucrezia in Pesaro. Archivium Secretum Apostol Vaticum, A.A., Arm. I-XVIII 5027, Lettere di diverse Dame scritte à Papa Alessandro VI, p. 18 · Ludwig Pastor, La Storia dei Papi, Supplemento al III (Rome: Desclee, 1912) letter 6, p. 473. Reported in Rachel Erlanger, Lucrezia Borgia: A Biography (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1978) p. 61