Pope Alexander VI
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| '''Pope Alexander VI''' ([[January 1]] [[1431]] – [[August 18]] [[1503]]) is the most [[controversial]] of the [[Secularism|secular]] [[pope]]s of the [[Renaissance]] and one whose surname became a byword for the [[debased]] standards of the papacy of that era. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | '''Pope Alexander VI''' ([[January 1]] [[1431]] – [[August 18]] [[1503]]) is the most [[controversial]] of the [[Secularism|secular]] [[pope]]s of the [[Renaissance]] and one whose surname became a byword for the [[debased]] standards of the papacy of that era. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | ||
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| + | ==Confiscations and Savonarola== | ||
| + | Violent and vengeful, Cesare now became the most powerful man in Rome, and even his father quailed before him. Because Alexander needed funds to carry out his various schemes, he began a series of confiscations, of which one of the victims was his own secretary. The process was a simple one: any cardinal, nobleman or official who was known to be rich would be accused of some offence; imprisonment and perhaps murder followed at once, and then the confiscation of his property. The least opposition to the Borgia was punished with death. | ||
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| + | [[Image:GirolamoSavonarola.jpg|thumb|200px|Because of his invectives against papal corruption, Girolamo Savonarola was viewed with hostility by Pope Alexander VI.]] | ||
| + | Even in that corrupt age the debased state of the curia was a major scandal. Opponents such as the demagogic monk [[Girolamo Savonarola]], who appealed for a general council to confront the papal abuses, launched invectives against papal corruption. Alexander VI, unable to get the excommunicated Savonarola into his own hands, browbeat the Florentine government into condemning the reformer to death ([[23 May]] [[1498]]). The houses of Colonna and Orsini, after much fighting between themselves, allied against the Pope, who found himself unable to maintain order in his own dominions. | ||
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Pope Alexander VI (January 1 1431 – August 18 1503) is the most controversial of the secular popes of the Renaissance and one whose surname became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. [1] [May 2007]
Confiscations and Savonarola
Violent and vengeful, Cesare now became the most powerful man in Rome, and even his father quailed before him. Because Alexander needed funds to carry out his various schemes, he began a series of confiscations, of which one of the victims was his own secretary. The process was a simple one: any cardinal, nobleman or official who was known to be rich would be accused of some offence; imprisonment and perhaps murder followed at once, and then the confiscation of his property. The least opposition to the Borgia was punished with death.
Even in that corrupt age the debased state of the curia was a major scandal. Opponents such as the demagogic monk Girolamo Savonarola, who appealed for a general council to confront the papal abuses, launched invectives against papal corruption. Alexander VI, unable to get the excommunicated Savonarola into his own hands, browbeat the Florentine government into condemning the reformer to death (23 May 1498). The houses of Colonna and Orsini, after much fighting between themselves, allied against the Pope, who found himself unable to maintain order in his own dominions.
