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- The Bisexual Boniface VIII Took Male Lovers and Had a Threesome with a Mother and Daughter. Boniface VIII’s papacy was so brutal and scandalous that it was immortalized in classic literature.
- Benedict IX Liked the Occasional Bestiality Session to Spice Up His Sex Life. At only twenty years old, the election of Pope Benedict IX in 1032 elected one of the youngest popes to the throne of St. Peter.
- Alexander VI’s Love For Orgies and His Illegitimate Children Defined His Papacy. Born Rodrigo Borgia, the late-fifteenth century Pope Alexander VI enjoyed a long career as Vice-Chancellor of the Church before he bullied and bribed the curia into electing him in 1492.
- John XII Died in His Mistress’s Bed. After the death of John X, Marozia seized control of Rome and the papacy. She installed three puppet popes, including her son, John XI.
One of the facts brought up was the following: " Julius II 1503-13: first pope to catch syphilis reported from a male prostitute ." Indeed, Julius II was nicknamed "Il terrible" according to J.N.D. Kelly (The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, p.256) .
- James Swan
- Sergius III (904-11), known by his cardinals as “the slave of every vice,” came to power after murdering his predecessor. He had a son with his teenage mistress — the prostitute Marozia, 30 years his junior — and their illegitimate son grew up to become the next pope.
- The 16-year-old John XII (955-64) was accused of sleeping with his two sisters and inventing a catalog of disgusting new sins. Described by a church historian as “the very dregs,” he was killed at age 27 when the husband of one of his mistresses burst into his bedroom, discovered him in flagrante, and battered his skull in with a hammer.
- Benedict IX, (1032-48) continually shocked even his most hardened cardinals by debauching young boys in the Lateran Palace. Repenting of his sins, he actually abdicated to a monastery, only to change his mind and seize office again.
- After massacring the entire population in the Italian town of Palestrina, Boniface VIII (1294-1303) indulged in ménages with a married woman and her daughter and became renowned through Rome as a shameless pedophile.
therapies for syphilis will be examined by concentrating on the life of the cardinals Cesare Borgia (1475-1507) and Giuliano della Rovere (1443-1513). As Pope Julius II (1503-1513), the latter built a bathroom for therapeutic reasons. Renaissance Rome saw a sudden increase of bathrooms built for popes, cardinals and prelates.
Julius II had a bad case of syphilis. Leo X allowed the faithful to buy their way into heaven. Urban VIII was the leader of the church when it threatened to burn Galileo at the stake. Historian ...
was appointed as surgeon to Pope Julius II, wrote about the contagiousness of the disease, its origin from sexual intercourse with an infected person and its rapid dissemination throughout the body in De Morbo Gallicus, 1514, the fifth book of his work Practica in arte chirurgica copiosa. He accurately
JULIUS II (POPE) (Giuliano della Rovere; 1443 – 1513; reigned 1503 – 1513), Italian pope. Born at Albissola near Savona in 1443, Giuliano was a vigorous man, suited to a life of action, not contemplation, and destined for an ecclesiastical career under the aegis of his uncle, Francesco della Rovere, who became a cardinal in 1467.
