Alexander vi Sentence Examples

It was, however, probably founded as a military order for the protection of the Holy Sepulchre by Alexander VI.

He must preserve the papal conquests which he had inherited from Alexander VI.

Aided by his terrible son, Cesare Borgia, Alexander VI.

Against this law, too, many petitions went to Rome for rehabilitation, until in 1498 the Spanish pope Alexander VI.

But in 1496, when the sovereigns again complained that the inquisitors were, without royal knowledge or consent, disposing of the property of the condemned and thus depriving the public revenues of considerable sums, Alexander VI.

The Portuguese were persistent trespassers in early colonial times, and their land-hunger took them far beyond the limits fixed by Pope Alexander VI.

The league now attacked Florence, for Pope Alexander VI.

Returning to Rome, he became secretary to Alexander VI.

During the brief pontificate of Pius III., who succeeded Alexander VI.

It has a picturesque castle built by Alexander VI.

The kings of Spain had obtained from the popes Alexander VI.

In Spain, national pride in the founder aided the Society's cause almost as much as royal patronage did in Portugal; and the third house was opened in Gandia under the protection of its duke, Francisco Borgia, a grandson of Alexander VI.

Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, a man of the most abandoned morals, who did not change his mode of life when he ascended the throne as Pope Alexander VI.

It is folly to speak of a donation of lands which did not belong to the pope, or to maintain that the freedom of the Americans was extinguished by the decision of Alexander VI.

Precisely as to-day inventions are guarded by patents, and literary and artistic creations by the law of copyright, so, at that period, the papal bull and the protection of the Roman Church were an effective means for ensuring that a country should reap where she had sown and should maintain the territory she had discovered and conquered by arduous efforts; while other claimants, with predatory designs, were warned back by the ecclesiastical censorship. In the Vatican the memory of Alexander VI.

The society in which the child was thenceforward reared is known to readers of Brantome as well as that of imperial Rome at its worst is known to readers of Suetonius or Petronius as well as that of papal Rome at its worst is known to readers of the diary kept by the domestic chaplain of Pope Alexander VI.

According to the special ritual prepared by Alexander VI.

In 1502 the king of Portugal obtained from Pope Alexander VI.

This was accomplished by the treaty of Tordesillas (June 7, 1 494) which modified the delimitation authorized by Pope Alexander VI.

He was canonized in 1494 by Alexander VI.

It had ended the schism, ratified the censorship of books introduced by Alexander VI.

Innocent died on the 25th of July 1492, and was succeeded by Alexander VI.