Alexander VI was so profligate that his reign helped inspire the Protestant reformation. A member of the prominent Borgia family of Spain, Alexander was appointed cardinal by his uncle, Pope ...

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What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici ...

Alexander VI bought his way into the papacy and had a rollicking sex life. Alexander VI became pope in 1492 — but before then he was just Rodrigo Borgia, a member of the notorious Italian crime ...

Under the scheming rule of her father, Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia is deliberately used by him and her brother for political ends and later slandered as a poisoner and incestuous femme fatale. But who ...

The incredible story of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), deliberately used politically by her powerful family and historically slandered as a poisoner and ...