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That confused me too. She cursed Arabella for ruining her life when there's Isabella, who's her daughter with the Cardinal. How could she even accuse Arabella when she already had another child with him in the first place. Unless, Isabella is also an illegitimate.
Darn, Arabella was just a pitiful child at all, as well as Ariadne too. All that revenge for nothing.
oh ok the better translation seems to imply that Lucrezia was married to the Cardinal already when she got pregnant with Ipollolito the affair child, which makes more sense than the implication she was already noticeably pregnant when she married Simone (unless he's so nice of a guy and didn't mind?).
And I guess Isabella too? Its pretty heavily implied she is to, but she's brazenly left out of the conversation entirely its like she doesn't exist! its awkward that no one is acknowledging Isabella, even if its just to confirm suspicions.
but im confused... whose simone? it looks like the cardinal, down to the green eyes and hair, but she seems to imply she loves him? Did she love the cardinal at first? but then why have the affairs? why think of him as she's dying, and not the lover?
Was the lover the brother of the cardinal or something?
A rather awful realization regardless for Ariadne, that after all the horrid shit her family and society put her through for being a product of an affair, it turns out the two golden children of the family were also illegitimate. And seeing Lucrezia give her life for someone who didn't even care for her in the end and threw her away like garbage, mirrors Ari's previous life.