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Sep 17, 2024 · Alexander VI, corrupt, wordly, and ambitious pope (1492–1503), whose neglect of the spiritual inheritance of the church contributed to the development of the Protestant Reformation. His pursuit of political goals and unremitting efforts to aggrandize his family were seen as excessive.
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In 1492, Rodrigo was elected pope, taking the name Alexander VI. Alexander's papal bulls of 1493 confirmed or reconfirmed the rights of the Spanish crown in the New World following the finds of Christopher Columbus in 1492. During the second Italian war, Alexander VI supported his son Cesare Borgia as a condottiero for the French king. The ...
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Alexander VI was born Rodrigo Borja in Játiva, Spain. Both his father and mother were members of the Borja family,perhaps the most notorious family of Renaissance Italy. He studied at the University of Valencia and later, in the early 1450s, worked toward a degree in canon (church) law at the University of Bologna. His uncle Alonso was bishop of Va...
At a meeting of church officials held in August 1492, the sixty-one-year-old Borgia was elected pope. He took the name of Alexander VI in honor of the ancient emperor Alexander the Great. His reign began well. The people were pleased by his election, and he began extensive building projects, working diligently at papal business. Trouble began in 14...
One of Alexander's harshest critics was Girolamo Savonarola (pronounced sah-voh-nah-RO-lah; 1452–1498), head of the monastery of San Marco in Florence and an advocate of church reform. Angered by the corrupt behavior of church officials, Savonarola demanded stricter adherence to the spiritual values and greater awareness of the poor. Savonarola was...
The reign of Pope Alexander VI came to symbolize the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. During Alexander's reign, critics such as the Florentine monk Girolamo Savonarola began calling for reform and a renewed commitment to Christian values. Within twenty years after Savonarola's death, the rapid rise of Protestantism brought more demands for ...
Alexander was infamous throughout Europe, but he was especially unpopular in Rome. One reason was that hewas a Spanish pope in a court increasingly dominated by Italians. But the main reason was that people genuinely feared him. He threatened those who crossed him, and suspicious deaths were linked to him. Even some cardinals did not feel safe in R...
Books
Bellonci, Maria. The Life and Times of Lucrezia Borgia,translated by Bernard and Barbara Wall. London: Phoenix Press, 2000. Erlanger, Rachel. Unarmed prophet: Savonarola in Florence. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill, 1987. Puzo, Mario. The Family: A Novel, completed by Carol Gino. New York: Regan Books, 2001.
Web Sites
"Alexander VI." Encyclopedia.com. [Online] Available http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/alexand6.asp, April 4, 2002. Knight, Kevin. "Alexander VI." Catholic Encyclopedia. [Online] Available http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01289a.htm, April 4, 2002.
Education and election. Rodrigo Borgia studied law at Bologna. He was reputed to have committed his first murder at the age of twelve. [1]. After his uncle's election as Pope he was created successively bishop, Cardinal and vice-chancellor of the church, an act of nepotism characteristic of the age.
Alexander VI, orig. Rodrigo de Borja y Doms, (born 1431, Játiva, Aragon—died Aug. 18, 1503, Rome), Pope (1492–1503). Born into the Spanish branch of the Borgia family, he amassed great wealth and lived scandalously, fathering four illegitimate children (before his election as pope), who played an important role in his complicated dynastic ...
Pope Alexander VI was the 214th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He was ruler of the Papal States and head of the Catholic church for just over 11 years from 11th August 1492 until his death in 1503.
Alexander VI 1431–1503 Pope. As pope, Alexander VI became a symbol of corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. He was born Rodrigo Borgia, a member of a powerful family in Spain. In 1456 his uncle Pope Calixtus III made him a cardinal. A year later he received the high position of vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church.
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