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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 ...
Pope Alexander VI [Note 2] (born Rodrigo de Borja; [Note 3] c. 1431 – 18 August 1503) ... The debased state of the curia was a major scandal. Opponents, ...
Alexander VI: 1492–1503 Not married. Relationships with Vanozza dei Catanei and Giulia Farnese. Possibly Had a long affair with Vannozza dei Cattanei while still a priest, and before he became pope; and by her had his illegitimate children Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, Gioffre Borgia, and Lucrezia. [32]
Pietro Colonna in 1501 by Pope Alexander VI; James IV of Scotland in 1513 for breaking the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with England. Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, in 1521 by Pope Leo X. Henry VIII of England in 1533, officially promulgated on 17 December 1538 by Pope Paul III.
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin. [1]: 204 Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony. [1]: 218
Pope Francis will wade into the quagmire of Portugal’s reckoning with its legacy of clergy abuse and cover-up whe. When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had ...
Lucrezia Borgia was born on 18 April 1480 at Subiaco, near Rome. [2] Her mother was Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of the mistresses of Lucrezia's father, Cardinal Rodrigo de Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI).
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 ...