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An account of the banquet appears in the Liber Notarum of Johann Burchard, the Protonotary Apostolic and Master of Ceremonies. This diary, a primary source on the life of Alexander VI, was preserved in the Vatican Secret Archive; it became available to researchers in the mid-19th century when Pope Leo XIII opened the archive, although Leo expressed specific reluctance to allow general access ...
The tomb of Pope Alexander VI Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter, painting by Titian. Cesare was preparing for another expedition in August 1503 when, after he and his father had dined with Cardinal Adriano Castellesi on 6 August, they were taken ill with fever a few days later.
— Pope Alexander VI (18 August 1503) "Into Your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit." [11]: 37 [15]: 62 [74] ("In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum.") — Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (20 May 1506), quoting Jesus "I have taken care of everything in life, only not for death—and now I have to die completely unprepared." [75]
In 1500, Pope Alexander VI announced that the doors in the four major basilicas would be opened simultaneously, and that he himself would open the Holy Door of Saint Peter's. The celebrations around this were "founded on ancient rites and full of symbolic meaning" and the total number attending the initial jubilee events was, according to ...
— Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor (4 June 1941), dying of a pulmonary embolism at Huis Doorn "My love of God is greater than my fear of death." [181] [182] — Cecil Pugh, GC, MA, Congregational Church minister (5 July 1941), asking to be lowered into the hold of the sinking SS Anselm, where injured airmen were trapped. Pugh then prayed ...
Cesare as a boy, painted by Pinturicchio. Like many aspects of Cesare Borgia's life, the date of his birth is a subject of dispute. He was born in Subiaco in Lazio, Italy [1] [2] in either 1475 or 1476, the illegitimate son of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja, usually known as "Rodrigo Borgia", later Pope Alexander VI, and his Italian mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information ...
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
Pope Alexander VI immediately absolved him from the charge: "God forbid that I should suspect him, for I hold him as a brother." [ 29 ] In the letter to his brother on 20 June, Ascanio Sforza admitted that his people were suspected: "It is said that some of my people may have done it on account of the recent quarrel with the Duke".