In a geostrategically located region riven by political upheaval and military conflict, providing an arena for competition between great powers, the members of a powerful ruling family had a ...

Five hundred years after he was killed in battle, the remains of Cesare Borgia, the notorious inspiration for Machiavelli's The Prince, are to be moved into a Spanish church. Banned from holy ground ...

“I sometimes think,” sang the Poet Omar, “that never blows so red the rose as where some buried Caesar bled.” Few, if any. roses bloomed in the church of Spain’s highland town of Viana where lethal ...

“It’s like ‘The Borgias’ meets ‘Game of Thrones’ meets ‘Dawson’s Creek.'” That’s how Francois Arnaud, who plays Cesare Borgia in Showtime’s “The Borgias,” described the Season 2 finale airing at 9 p.m ...

In the summer of 1502, the youthful Cesare Borgia was on his third rampage through the Romagna region of northern Italy, brutally seizing city after city in the name of his father, Pope Alexander VI, ...

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