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-"According to [[Eamon Duffy]], "the Renaissance papacy invokes images of a Hollywood spectacular, all decadence and drag. Contemporaries viewed Renaissance Rome as we now view Nixon's Washington, a city of expense-account whores and political graft, where everything and everyone had a price, where nothing and nobody could be trusted. The popes themselves seemed to set the tone." For example, Leo X was said to have remarked: "Let us enjoy the papacy, since God has given it to us." Several of these popes [[List of sexually active popes|took mistresses and fathered children]] and engaged in intrigue or even murder. Alexander VI had four acknowledged children, including [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Lucrezia Borgia]]."+"According to [[Eamon Duffy]], "the [[Renaissance papacy]] invokes images of a Hollywood spectacular, all decadence and drag. Contemporaries viewed Renaissance Rome as we now view Nixon's Washington, a city of expense-account whores and political graft, where everything and everyone had a price, where nothing and nobody could be trusted. The popes themselves seemed to set the tone." For example, Leo X was said to have remarked: "Let us enjoy the papacy, since God has given it to us." Several of these popes [[List of sexually active popes|took mistresses and fathered children]] and engaged in intrigue or even murder. Alexander VI had four acknowledged children, including [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Lucrezia Borgia]]."
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"According to Eamon Duffy, "the Renaissance papacy invokes images of a Hollywood spectacular, all decadence and drag. Contemporaries viewed Renaissance Rome as we now view Nixon's Washington, a city of expense-account whores and political graft, where everything and everyone had a price, where nothing and nobody could be trusted. The popes themselves seemed to set the tone." For example, Leo X was said to have remarked: "Let us enjoy the papacy, since God has given it to us." Several of these popes took mistresses and fathered children and engaged in intrigue or even murder. Alexander VI had four acknowledged children, including Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia."

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The Pope is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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