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The Inter Caetera, Papal Bull of May 4, 1493. Pope Alexander VI (Pope from 1492-1503), the infamous Borgia, he gave the New World to Spain. He was a MONSTER of iniquity even by the standards of his day. " On Sunday evening, October 30th, Don Cesare Borgia gave a supper in his apartment in the apostolic palace, with fifty decent prostitutes or ...
Apr 30, 2014 · Alexander VI was the worst of the Borgia popes, against whom the Reformation was right to protest. He’s the subject of the Showtime series The Borgias.There were three popes from the Borgia family from the 15th to the 17th centuries, and, of the three, Alexander VI was the most infamous: he was accused of simony, lechery, and adultery—which gives the English actor Jeremy Irons some ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Pope Alexander VI tried to bribe Savonarola into silence, and he even forbade Savonarola from preaching. Savonarola, of course, would not be silenced for long, and in 1497, he was accused of ...
Popes. Alexander VI. Original Spanish name in full Rodrigo de Borja y Doms, Italian Rodrigo Borgia (b. 1431, Játiva, d. 1503, Rome), corrupt, worldly, and ambitious pope, whose neglect of the spiritual inheritance of the church contributed to the development of the Protestant Reformation. Rodrigo was born into the Spanish branch of the ...
Nov 29, 2022 · Born in Ferrara, Girolamo Savonarola (b. 1452–d. 1498) entered the Dominican order in Bologna in 1475. After spells in Florence, San Gimignano, and Brescia, he returned to Florence under Medicean patronage in 1490 and was elected prior of the convent of San Marco the following year. From 1493 he became a thorn in the side of Pope Alexander VI ...
May 25, 2011 · Julius II: The Warrior Pope. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. A detailed study of the career of Giuliano della Rovere (Julius II), with a fresh evaluation of his role as cardinal adviser to his uncle, Sixtus IV, and ally Innocent VIII, as an enemy of Alexander VI, and as a supporter of Pius III.
Oct 3, 2017 · Surrounding the base of the Luther monument in Worms, Germany, sit the four forerunners of the Protestant Reformation — Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, Peter Waldo, and Girolamo Savonarola. They could not have more different personalities, yet each inspired Luther’s reforms in his own way. Luther found Savonarola personally inspiring: as Luther ...
