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Article: Turning a whore into a heroine.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2004
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Byline: DAMIAN THOMPSON
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love And Death In Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford Viking [pounds sterling]25 .[pounds sterling]20 (0870 165 0870)
Catholics believe that the election of the Pope is guided by the Holy Spirit.
If so, the Spirit must have been in a funny old mood in 1492 when it chose a candidate who had fathered eight bastards.
Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who took the title of Pope Alexander VI, had big plans for his illegitimate children, and now he could put them into action.
His son Cesare was made an archbishop, aged 17; his beautiful and sparky daughter Lucrezia was married off to one of the ...