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The Borgias: everything you wanted to know

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Are the Borges Worse Than Other Families?

In the fifteenth century, italy becomes this kind of arena for fighting between the king of spain and the king of france. And one of the things that they levelled against spanish people was that they weren't proper christians. The fact that the borges were sp Spanish really adds to the reason why they have such a bad reputation. So i don't think they were particularly worse tha o view. But the vatican of alexander the sixth was different. There were more women in it. There were he was more ambitious for his family, and he was more open about it than other popes. That's the key different.

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