Rodrigo Borgia (1431–1503), born Roderic Llançol i de Borja, was a Spanish cardinal and pope known as Alexander VI (1492–1503). ✝️ He came from the powerful Spanish-Valencian Borgia family, which produced several high-ranking church officials. 🏰 In Rome, he advanced thanks to his uncle Alfonso de Borja, Pope Callixtus III, who appointed him cardinal. 👑 As pope, Rodrigo Borgia was one of the most controversial pontiffs of the Renaissance. ⚔️ His reign was marked by open nepotism: he placed his

Lucrezia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI - Frank Cadogan Cowper (1914 - Tate Britain, England @tate) Event reported in the diary of John Burchard, Bishop of Orta. : ‘Before his Holiness, our Master, left the city, he turned over the palace and all business affairs to his daughter Lucrezia, giving her full power to open all letters which arrive.’ According to the Tate : "The room in the Vatican in which Lucrezia Borgia appeared still exists. Cowper went there to c

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