She hated her cage, and used to put her head close to the bars and plead, "Let Bella out; Bella will be a good girl.

Giulia Bella was the mistress of Alexander VI., and a sister of the Farnese, who owed his cardinal's hat to her influence.

Bella and the rat were great friends.

Indeed the loves of "Il bel Giulio" and "La bella Simonetta" were the talk and the admiration of the whole city:the Apollo or the Mercury of the New Athens with his VenusVenus de' Medici!