Cesare borgia biography
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Cesare Borgia
Late 15th-century Italian nobleman and Catholic cardinal
Cesare Borgia[b] (13 September – 12 March ) was a Roman Catholicdeacon—cardinal and later an Italiancondottiero (mercenary). He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI of the AragoneseHouse of Borgia and was a sibling to Lucrezia Borgia.
After initially entering the Church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the papacy, he resigned his diaconal profession after the death of his brother in He was employed as a condottiero for King Louis XII of France around , and occupied both Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. At the same time, he carved out a state for himself in Central Italy, but he was unable to retain power for long after his father's death. His quest for political power was a major inspiration for The Prince by the renowned Florentine historian, Niccolò Machiavelli.[3]
Early life
[edit]See also: House of Borgia
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Cesare Borgia (September 13, – March 11, ) was a Spanish-Italian cardinal who resigned his church office to became a military commander, powerful lord, and a leading figure in the politics of his era. The acknowledged but illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, Borgia was the sibling of Lucrezia, Jofré, and Giovanni Borgia.
Borgia was a brilliant general who lived during the period when the papacy was a both a spiritual and military power. Cesare Borgia's actions greatly advanced the domain of the Papal States after his father became pope. Simultaneously Borgia became a powerful political figure in his own right. His amassed titles included Duke of Valentinois and Romagna; Prince of Andria and Venafro; Count of Dyois; Lord of Piombino, Camerino, and Urbino; Gonfalonier; and military Captain-General of the Holy Church.
Borgia gained a reputation not only for effectiveness as a military leader but for outright ruthlessness in the
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Cesare Borgia at Sinigallia
Cesare Borgia () was the most brilliant, ambitious and forceful of the illegitimate children of huvudregel Rodrigo Borgia, who became pope as Alexander oss in Ten years later, in his mid-twenties, Cesare was known for the beauty of his individ, his clothes and his women. He was also captain-general of the papal army and busy, with French help, in campaigns north of Rome to re-establish papal authority in Central Italy and carve out a principality as a permanent Borgia family power base. Adopting the motto Aut Caesar, aut nihil (‘Either Caesar or nothing’), in he took the cities of Imola and Forli, in Rimini, Pesaro and Faenza. In June Urbino surrendered, its previous mästare and faithful ally of Cesare, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, forced to flee in the night with ingenting but the clothes on his back.
Cesare moved on to Imola in September, from which he intended, with the technical assistance of Leonardo da Vinci, to take Bologna, the biggest city in th