THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RODRIGO BORGIA

POPE ALEXANDER VI

BY

ARNOLD H. MATHEW

ARCHBISHOP OF THE OLD ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

"Let writers of history remember never to dare to tell a lie

nor to fear to tell the truth."

Pope Leo XIII.

PREFACE

I.- Origin of the Borgias.

II.- Ferdinand and Isabella.

III.- Cardinal Borgia as Pope Alexander VI.

IV.- Children of Rodrigo Borgia.

V.- Lorenzo de' Medici

VI.-Savonarola's preaching.

VII.- Charles VIII

VIII.- Ludovico Sforza

IX.- War between Naples and Milan

X.- Caesar Borgia

XI.- Murder of the Duke of Gandia

XII.- Marriage of Lucrezia and Alfonso of Naples

XIII.- The Jubilee Year, 1500

XIV.- Crusade against the Borgia tyranny

XV.- Illness and death of Pope Alexander VI, 1503

XVI.- Gonsalvo da Cordova, the Great Captain

XVII.- Alexander and the spiritual interests of the Church

XVIII.- The great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI, St. Francis Borgia, fourth Duke of Gandia 

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