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LEFT BORGIA 117 BORIC ACID petty wars, made himself master of the Romagna, attempted Bologna and Flor- ence, and had seized Urbino when Alex- ander VI. died, 1503. He was now at- tacked by a severe disease, but found means, indeed, to get the treasures of his father into his possession, and assem- bled his troops in Rome; but enemies rose against him on all sides, including the new Pope, Julius II. Borgia was ar- rested and carried to Spain. He at length made his escape to his brother-in- law, the King of Navarre, and was killed before the castle of Viana, March 12, 1507. He was charged with the murder of his elder brother, of the husband of his sister Lucretia, etc. With all his crimes he was a patron of art and literature. BORGIA, LUCRETIA, daughter of Pope Alexander VI., and sister of Cesare Borgia, was born in 1480. In 1493 she was married to Giovanni Sf orza, Lord of Pesaro, but after she had lived with him for four years, Alexander dissolved the marriage, and gave her to Alphonso, nephew of Alphonso II. of Naples. Two years after this new husband was assas- sinated by the hired ruffians of Cesare Borgia. Her third husband was Alphonso d'Este, son of the Duke of Ferrara. She was accused by contemporaries of incest, poisoning, and almost every species of enormous crime; but several modern writers claim that she was maligned. She was a patroness of art and litera- ture. She died in 1519. BORGLXTM, JOHN GUTZON DE LA MOTHE, an American sculptor and painter; born in Idaho, March 25, 1867. His early life was spent in the West, where he studied at the San Francisco Art Association. From 1890 to 1893 he pursued his art studies in Paris. He re- turned to California for two years and then took up his residence in London. He spent six years there, and was elected a member of British and French art so- cieties. In 1902 he returned to New York, where his work speedily gained him rec- ognition. Among his well-known works are the "Mares of Diomedes" in the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, statues of Lincoln and Beecher and the figures of the Twelve Apostles in colossal size for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. BORGNE (born), an inlet of S. E. Louisiana. The Rigolets Pass opens to it a communication with Lake Pontchar- train, and it also connects with the Gulf of Mexico. Length about 60 milee; great- est width, 25 miles. BORGO. a name given to a number of towns and villages in Italy and south- em Tyrol, and indicating the growth of the town or village around a castle or castellated rock, the original Borgo. Thus there are the Borgo, the N. part of Rome, GUTZON BORGLUM on the right bank of the Tiber; Borgo- Manero, an Italian town, 20 miles N. N. W. of Novara, with 4,821 inhabitants; Borgo San Donnino, in the province of Parma, with 4,493 inhabitants, etc. BORGOGNONE, AMBROGIO DA FOSSANO (borg-6n-yo'n^) a Milanese painter of the transition stage between the old school and the great masters of the 16th century. His last and best work was the "Coronation of the Virgin" (1524), now in San Simpliciano, Milan. He died in 1535. BORGU, or BUSSANGA, an African state, attached by treaty, since 1884-1886, to the Royal Niger Company, lying on both sides of the Niger river, and border- ing on Gando and Illorin, provinces of the empire of Sokoto. The country is generally level, but rises in the N. into lofty ranges of hills, and is very fertile and thickly populated. It was at Boussa, one of the chief towns, that Mungo Park lost his life in 1805. BORIC or BORACIC, ACID, an acid formed by dissolving boron trioxide (B.0<) in water. It occurs in the steam which issues from volcanic vents in Tus-