Alexander VI was a Roman Pope who occupied the seat of Saint Peter in the period 1492-1521 and who would stand out as one of the most significant figures of the Renaissance. Abandoning the evangelical model of life, the Renaissance pontiffs were more concerned with their political projection and sta
Nepotism derives from nepote (nephew) and refers to the favorable treatment of the Popes regarding their nephews whom they named cardinals, originating the figure of the nephew cardinal during the Middle Ages and that would last until 1692 when Pope Innocence XII promulgated the bull Romanum decet P
Married to one of the most controversial sovereigns in the history of England, Isabelle dAngoulême is one of those leading women of the Middle Ages , whose life worthy of a novel deserves to be told! The “kidnapping” of Isabelle by Jean Sans Terre The one who will go down in history as Jean Sans T
I am Mr. Kowalski, and this is Mrs. Kowalska - said the sympathetic hero of Sienkiewiczs Deluge, beating his saber. Two historians managed to prove that he was not a fictional character and indeed died a heroic death in the attack on the Swedish king. The three-day battle of Warsaw, fought betwe