ALEXANDRE DUMAS (FATHER) - THE BORGIAS (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED) (CELEBRATED CRIMES Book 1)

The Borgias is the first volume of Celebrated Crimes series, written by Alexandre Dumas (father). The Borgias family became prominent during the Renaissance in Italy. They were from Valencia, the surname being a toponymic from Borja, then in the kingdom of Aragon, in Spain. The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 15th and 16th centuries, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja, who ruled as Pope Callixtus III during 1455–1458, and Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia, as Pope Alexander VI, during 1492–1503.
Especially during the reign of Alexander VI, they were suspected of many crimes, including adultery, incest, simony, theft, bribery[citation needed], and murder (especially murder by arsenic poisoning). Because of their grasping for power, they made enemies of the Medici, the Sforza, and the Dominican friar Savonarola, among others.