They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici ...

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Alexander VI bought his way into the papacy and had a rollicking sex life. Alexander VI became pope in 1492 — but before then he was just Rodrigo Borgia, a member of the notorious Italian crime ...

This commonality of ideals and principles was perhaps articulated most effectively in an encyclical titled "On the Development of Peoples" disseminated by Pope Paul VI in 1967. In the late 1960s, when ...

The painting was allegedly inspired by the Banquet of Chestnuts, a banquet supposedly held by Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. During this banquet, it is said that Borgia had ...

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This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...

Even the Vatican agreed it did not apply when Pope Paul VI condemned contraception in 1968. It’s never been invoked in the church’s opposition to abortion. And it definitely does not apply to ...

They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici ...