Borgia Synonyms

bôrjə, -zhə
Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Lucrezia Borgia
  2. Duchess of Ferrara
Italian pope whose nepotism put the Borgia family in power in Italy (1378-1458)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Calixtus III
  2. Alfonso Borgia
Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cesare borgia
Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (1431-1503)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alexander vi
  2. Pope Alexander VI
  3. Rodrigo Borgia

Borgia Sentence Examples

  • Aided by his terrible son, Cesare Borgia, Alexander VI.

  • In July occurred the murder of the duke of Bisceglie, Lucrezia Borgia's third husband.

  • Borgia's power was now at an end, and he was obliged to surrender all his castles in Romagna save Cesena, Forli and Bettinoro, whose governors refused to accept an order of surrender from a master who was a prisoner.

  • Cesare Borgia was a type of the adventurers with which the Italy of the Renaissance swarmed, but he was cleverer and more unscrupulous than his rivals.

  • In the 1 4 th and 5th centuries it was under the government of the Ordelaffi; and in 1500 was taken by Caesar Borgia, despite a determined resistance by Caterina Sforza, widow of Girolamo Riario.

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