After seeing Charles VIII though Rome with an uncertain deal with pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia, we go back to see how the Borgias came to Italy from Spain with Alphonse of Aragon, rose to the papacy with Callixtus III who in turn raised his nephew Rodrigo. He would eventually, thanks to one of his many lovers, have three children before becoming pope, Cesare, Giovanni and Lucrezia, who would all go on to their own adventures.
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145 - Fleeting youth, Lorenzo de Medici's early years (1468 - 1471)
144 - A sickly father, a magnificent mother amd balls (1464 - 1468)
143 Cosimus Medices Pater Patriae (1429 - 1464)
142 - pope-ing out of the Middle ages (1447 - 1492)
141 - The popes are back in business (1417 - 1447)
140 - King Ferdinand's woes (1458 - 1492)
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139 - King Alphonse of Naples (1436 - 1458)
138 - Aragonese Sardinia and Sicily (1410 - 1500)
137 - The Republic of San Marino
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136 - Savoy from count to duke to pope (1391 - 1451)
Anti-mafia martyrs - Pio La Torre, the mafia fighting communist
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135 - Savoy - different coloured counts and a murder mystery (1255 - 1391)
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134 - Piedmont and the rise of the house of Savoy
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