1519—After nearly two decades of life at the center of the refined Ferrara court, Lucrezia Borgia dies at age 39. Ambitious and worldly, the Borgias originated in Spain and were viewed with ...

Italy, 15th century. Rodrigo Borgia is a cunning schemer. For thirty years he has worked himself up in the Roman Catholic Church and now has been elected as pope by the college of cardinals.