the illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia—the future Pope Alexander VI—and his lover, Vannozza Cattanei. 1493—The marriage of Lucrezia to Giovanni Sforza, nephew of Ludovico ...

There was Alexander VI ... greatest number of prostitutes. Rodrigo's successor as the Pope was Julius II, who ordered that no one should 'speak or think of Borgia again'. But Julius was notorious ...

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso ...

few families conjure up the cinematic images of power-hungry deviants like the Borgias. The patriarch of the long-maligned family was Pope Alexander VI, who used the power of the Vatican to ...