{"id":21476,"date":"2023-11-06T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=21476"},"modified":"2023-11-03T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T05:31:20","slug":"sylum-inspiration-cesare-borgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-cesare-borgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Cesare Borgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So this month decided to go for the Bad Guys!<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Like nearly all aspects of <\/span>Cesare Borgia<\/a>\u2019s life, the date of his birth is a subject of dispute. He was born in Rome\u2014in either 1475 or 1476\u2014the illegitimate son of Cardinal Roderic Llan\u00e7ol i de Borja, (usually known as Rodrigo Borgia), later Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse. The Borgia family originally came from the Kingdom of Valencia, and rose to prominence during the mid-15th century; Cesare\u2019s grand-uncle Alphonso Borgia (1378\u20131458), bishop of Valencia, was elected Pope Callixtus III in 1455. Cesare\u2019s father, Pope Alexander VI, was the first pope who openly recognized his children born out of wedlock.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefano Infessura writes that Cardinal Borgia falsely claimed Cesare to be the legitimate son of another man\u2014Domenico d\u2019Arignano, the nominal husband of Vannozza dei Cattanei. More likely, Pope Sixtus IV granted Cesare a release from the necessity of proving his birth in a papal bull of 1 October 1480.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cesare\u2019s career was founded upon his father\u2019s ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France (reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d\u2019Albret, sister of John III of Navarre), in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: after Gian Giacomo Trivulzio had ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his entrance into Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point Alexander decided to profit from the favourable situation and carve out for Cesare a state of his own in northern Italy. To this end, he declared that all his vicars in Romagna and Marche were deposed. Though in theory subject directly to the pope, these rulers had been practically independent or dependent on other states for generations. In the view of the citizens, these vicars were cruel and petty. When Cesare eventually took power, he was viewed by the citizens as a great improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cesare was appointed commander of the papal armies with a number of Italian mercenaries, supported by 300 cavalry and 4,000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France. Alexander sent him to capture Imola and Forl\u00ec, ruled by Caterina Sforza (mother of the Medici condottiero Giovanni dalle Bande Nere). Despite being deprived of his French troops after the conquest of those two cities, Borgia returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph and to receive the title of Papal Gonfalonier from his father. In 1500 the creation of twelve new cardinals granted Alexander enough money for Cesare to hire the condottieri, Vitellozzo Vitelli, Gian Paolo Baglioni, Giulio and Paolo Orsini, and Oliverotto da Fermo, who resumed his campaign in Romagna.<\/span><\/p>\n

Giovanni Sforza, first husband of Cesare\u2019s sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from Pesaro; Pandolfo Malatesta lost Rimini; Faenza surrendered, its young lord Astorre III Manfredi being later drowned in the Tiber river by Cesare\u2019s order. In May 1501 the latter was created duke of Romagna. Hired by Florence, Cesare subsequently added the lordship of Piombino to his new lands.<\/span><\/p>\n

While his condottieri took over the siege of Piombino (which ended in 1502), Cesare commanded the French troops in the sieges of Naples and Capua, defended by Prospero and Fabrizio Colonna. On 24 June 1501 his troops stormed the latter, causing the collapse of Aragonese power in southern Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June 1502 he set out for Marche, where he was able to capture Urbino and Camerino by treason. He planned to conquer Bologna next. However, his condottieri, most notably Vitellozzo Vitelli and the Orsini brothers (Guilio, Paolo and Francesco), feared Cesare\u2019s cruelty and set up a plot against him. Guidobaldo da Montefeltro and Giovanni Maria da Varano returned to Urbino and Camerino, and Fossombrone revolted. The fact that his subjects had enjoyed his rule thus far meant that his opponents had to work much harder than they would have liked. He eventually recalled his loyal generals to Imola, where he waited for his opponents\u2019 loose alliance to collapse. Cesare called for a reconciliation, but imprisoned his condottieri in Senigallia, then called Sinigaglia, a feat described as a \u201cwonderful deceiving\u201d by Paolo Giovio, and had them executed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although he was an immensely capable general and statesman, Cesare had trouble maintaining his domain without continued Papal patronage. Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli cites Cesare\u2019s dependence on the good will of the Papacy, under the control of his father, to be the principal disadvantage of his rule. Machiavelli argued that, had Cesare been able to win the favor of the new Pope, he would have been a very successful ruler. The news of his father\u2019s death (1503) arrived when Cesare was planning the conquest of Tuscany. While he was convalescing in Castel Sant\u2019Angelo, his troops controlled the conclave.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new pope, Pius III, supported Cesare Borgia and reconfirmed him as Gonfalonier; but after a brief pontificate of twenty-six days he died. Borgia\u2019s deadly enemy, Giuliano Della Rovere, then succeeded by dexterous diplomacy in tricking the weakened Cesare Borgia into supporting him by offering him money and continued papal backing for Borgia policies in the Romagna; promises which he disregarded upon election. He was elected as Pope Julius II to the papal dignity by the near-unanimous vote of the cardinals. Realizing his mistake by then, Cesare tried to correct the situation to his favor, but Pope Julius II made sure of its failure at every turn.<\/span><\/p>\n

For More Information Contact\u00a0Vampire Council Libray<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(Dilios Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Some of this is written history \u2013 what it leaves out is Ezio and the fight against the Borgias)<\/span><\/p>\n

It was in Spain that Commodus found Cesare and Turned him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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