A family businessSurrounded by the elite of Europe, Pope Alexander VI (center), né Rodrigo Borgia, dominates this detail of a 1500 painting by Cola da Orte. Among the men behind him stands his ...

There was controversy from the start with Pope Alexander VI, a wealthy Spaniard who allegedly bought the papacy by bribing his fellow electors. Alexander also saw no problem appointing many of his ...

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI published an edict dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal. In 1855 Women’s Hospital, the first hospital to be operated exclusively for women ...

But what was in the deadly poison? And why has it become infamous? In 1503, Pope Alexander VI had a bit of a problem with the Venetian cardinal. How lucky for him that the cardinal soon died of ...

Surely the pope who set the standard for a completely "normal" relationship with Islam was Alexander VI (1492-1503). Even as the Ottoman navy was capturing a series of Christian cities in the ...