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© 1998 - Ward Kelley Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503) was elected pope Alexander VI in the conclave of 1492. Overall his reign was a disaster for the Church, and his corruption lessened the Church’s ability to resist the Protestant reformation. However Alexander did achieve certain accomplishments such as sending the first missionaries to the Americas, recovering the territories of the Papal States, and reforming the papal finances. Prior to becoming pope, he
fathered four children by a Roman noblewoman; his children became
Alexander’s dominant passion in his life, and two of them achieved their own notoriety: Cesare Borgia, the model for Machiavelli’s "The Prince," and Lucrezia Borgia who was reported to have been involved in an incestuous relationship with her father and two brothers.
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