THE BORGIA

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A multi-faceted family that crosses politics and diplomacy, art and culture as a whole, religion, the definitive passage from the Gothic to the Renaissance. The Borgias supported the greatest artists of the time, Leonardo, Pinturicchio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bembo, Copernicus, Machiavelli just to name a few ... All the greatest artists who created the Renaissance gravitated around the Borgias ”.

Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503), assumed to the papal throne with the name of Alexander VI, and went down in history for his dissolute customs and the nepotism he exercised; and his sons Cesare (1476-1507), known as Valentino; and Lucrezia (1480-1519): protagonists of Renaissance history who will inspire art even after their death.