![]() ![]() Together with their father, they would come to define the corruption of the Church, as well as have a hand in the shifting face of not just Italy, but of Europe as a whole.Īs a result, the Borgias have been the subject of much speculation, both in actual historical research and in fiction. Of the four, two eventually became as famous (some say infamous) as their father – Cesare and Lucrezia would each occupy a place in history. During the time that Rodrigo Borgia sat upon the throne of Saint Peter, he did his level best to improve the lot of his family – not least the lot of his four favored children: Cesare, Juan, Lucrezia and Joffre. As I have mentioned a few times before, I am really, really fond of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular, that narrow sliver of time from the last decade of the 1400s to the very early years of the 1500s, during which the Borgia family came to power when their patriarch, the redoubtable and charismatic Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, became Pope Alexander VI. ![]()
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