titled “Experimenti”. In fiction In the 2005 novel "The Borgia Bride" by Jeanne Kalogridis, Caterina befriends the novel's main protagonist, Sancha of Aragon, while both women are imprisoned in the Castel San Angelo. Both plot the downfall of Pope Alexander Borgia and his murderous son Cesare. Caterina serves as the supposed inspiration for Catalina, a small-time criminal in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, who later rises to power as a drug lord in the events of Grand Theft Auto III, which released before San Andreas. Caterina is the subject of the 2010 historical novel Scarlet Contessa, by Jeanne Kalogridis. In the 2011 Showtime series The Borgias she is portrayed by Gina McKee; the show takes significant dramatic liberties with the details surrounding the siege undertaken in the name of Alexander VI. Her capture by Cesare Borgia is the final episode of Season 3, which was also the last-ever episode due to the show's cancellation. In the series Borgia, also known as Borgia: Faith and Fear, she is portrayed by Valentina Cervi. In the third season of Medici (TV Series), she appears as a young woman, married to her first husband, the major antagonist Girolamo Riario. She is portrayed by Rose Williams. Caterina Sforza appears as a minor character in the 2009 historically set video game Assassin's Creed II and its novelization, Assassin's Creed: Renaissance. She plays a larger role in "The Battle of Forlì" downloadable content pack, wherein she is aided in the titular battle by the game's protagonist Ezio Auditore. Caterina also appears in the 2010 sequel game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and its novelization, as a sometime love interest to Ezio Auditore. Three missions are dedicated to Ezio rescuing her from her imprisonment in the Castel Sant'Angelo. A fictionalised account of Caterina Sforza's capture by Cesare Borgia features in Sarah Dunant's 2013 novel Blood & Beauty. In Machiavelli Caterina is one of the few women discussed by Machiavelli at length. Specifically because of the incident of her having shown her genitalia in regaining the fortress of Ravaldino. This skirt account, although being the best known version of the events, is believed to have been created by Machiavelli and not a historical fact. He tells it in multiple occasions: first in the Discourses on Livy, and lastly in Florentine Histories. Machiavelli himself tells the account differently in Florentine Histories, omitting completely the whole skirt raising situation replaced simply with a