Rodrigo Borgia - Alessandro VI

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Posted on 6/7/2012, 11:26 by: ‚dafne

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Rodrigo da giovane:

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Rodrigo was at this time twenty-nine years of age
a man of remarkable beauty, tall and dark, with
piercing black eyes. He had gracious and persuasive
manners and a strong and attractive personality.
But he made no effort to subordinate his insatiable
sensuality to his higher faculties, and even when, in
1464, he accompanied the ailing Pope on his cele-
brated expedition to Ancona, this " essentially low-
minded man " could not refrain from his dissolute
habits. Caspar Veronensis describes him later as " a
comely man of cheerful countenance and honeyed
discourse, who gains the affections of all the women he
admires, and attracts them as the lodestone attracts
iron."

Altra curiosità

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Cardinal Borgia's generosity also displayed itself on
later occasions, such as the celebrations in honour
of the taking of Granada, and the restoration of the
Church of Santa Maria in the Via Lata. He contri-
buted liberally to Paul II.'s equipment for the siege of
Rimini, as indeed he did to every public undertaking.
Pope Paul II. entrusted to him the management of
the poor relief fund, and, on the authority of an eye-
witness, it is said that the Cardinal saved many needy
persons from perishing of hunger.

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