But he was no sooner in Milan than he did the contrary by assisting Pope Alexander to occupy the Romagna.
And on these matters I spoke at Nantes with Rouen, when Valentino, as Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander, was usually called, occupied the Romagna, and on Cardinal Rouen observing to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied to him that the French did not understand statecraft, meaning that otherwise they would not have allowed the Church to reach such greatness.
There, in the twentieth chapter of the Life of
Pope Alexander VI., were the following lines, which I can never forget: --
A general glance at the picture could never suggest that there was a hair trunk in it; the Hair Trunk is not mentioned in the title even--which is, "
Pope Alexander III.
She had precisely the same shape of skull as
Pope Alexander the Sixth; her organs of benevolence, veneration, conscientiousness, adhesiveness, were singularly small, those of self-esteem, firmness, destructiveness, combativeness, preposterously large; her head sloped up in the penthouse shape, was contracted about the forehead, and prominent behind; she had rather good, though large and marked features; her temperament was fibrous and bilious, her complexion pale and dark, hair and eyes black, form angular and rigid but proportionate, age fifteen.
Duterte was referring to Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of Spanish Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia who later became
Pope Alexander VI and his mistress Vannoza Cattanei in the 15th century.
Construction of Notre Dame, which was built on the ruins of earlier churches, began in 1163, when
Pope Alexander III laid the foundation stone.
1173:
Pope Alexander III canonised Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
1173:
Pope Alexander III canonized Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Rodrigo Borgia, while a priest, had four children with his mistress before he became
Pope Alexander VI, an excess that helped spur Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation.
1492: The infamous and corrupt Roderigo Borgia bribed enough cardinals to become
Pope Alexander VI.
It included the earliest nautical charts made in the 15th and 16th centuries, jealously guarded by the Portuguese and Spanish that both claimed rights to the islands following the 1493 Papal Bull 'Inter Caetera' issued by
Pope Alexander VI that cut the world in half like an orange and granted rights to discover the unknown world to the competing crowns of Portugal and Spain.