Assassin's Creed Shadows is under the chopping board right now as it gets based for historical inaccuracies. But the ...

Alexander VI was so profligate that his reign helped inspire the Protestant reformation. A member of the prominent Borgia family of Spain, Alexander was appointed cardinal by his uncle, Pope ...

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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 ...

This ceremony was instituted by Pope Alexander VI for the Jubilee in 1500, evoking Jesus’ description of himself in the Gospel of John as the door to salvation. In addition to the typical emphases on ...

Some of the earlier popes, especially in the Borgia-heavy Renaissance era, were notably corrupt and secular — see Pope Alexander VI, who lived in wealth and openly doted on his children with ...

Who was responsible for one of history's great unsolved murders?

Passetto di Borgo, Rome’s historic papal escape route, reopened after years of restoration. Here's how to visit it.

Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia is deliberately used by him and her brother for political ends and later slandered as a poisoner and incestuous femme fatale. But who was the real Lucrezia?