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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Cesare Borgia, Pope Pius III, Pope Gregory XI, Pope Martin V, Pope Paul V, Pope Gregory XIV, Pope Urban VII, Pope Innocent VII, Pope Nicholas IV, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Monica Bellucci, Suze Rotolo, Marios Kyriazis, John of Capistrano, Girolamo Maggi, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Paul Yu Pin, Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Helmut Berger, Ruggero Oddi, Alberico Gentili, James of the Marches, Ennio Antonelli, Tommaso Maria Zigliara, Aegidius Gelenius, Julian Cesarini, Gian Francesco Gamurrini, Luca Gammaitoni, Marios Garoyian, Carlo Laurenzi, Igor kamperle, Alberto Burri, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Rafael L. Bras, Vittorio Merloni, Fabrizio Spada, Agnolo Firenzuola, Paola Sebastiani, Frank S. Walsh, Bereket Selassie, Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac, Bernardino Spada, Oriol Martorell i Codina, Marianna Marquesa Florenzi, Carlo Bonelli, Frans Sammut, Bernardino of Fossa, Orazio Antinori, Angelo Geraldini, Paolo Emilio Rondinini, Nicola Capocci, Prospero Fagnani, Angelo Rocca, Michael J. Alexander, Paulus Castrensis, Enzo Riccardo Campagnolo, Jo Schouwenaar-Franssen, Francesco Angeloni. Excerpt: Cesare Borgia (Spanish: Cesar Borja) (13 September 1475 or April 1476 - 12 March 1507), Duke of Valentinois, was an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia; Giovanni Borgia (Juan), Duke of Gandia; and Gioffre Borgia (Jofre in Valencian), Prince of Squillace. He was half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja (1460-1488) and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers. Like nearly all aspects of Cesare Borgia's life, the date of his birth is a subject of dispute. However, he was of Spanish descent. He was born in Rome--in either 1475 or 1476-to Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander V...