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Having elected Borgia, the cardinals serenaded the Holy Spirit, thanking him for choosing a successor to St Peter. . . In a frenzy of joy, he exclaimed: `I am pope, pontiff, Vicar of Christ.,'
This man whom Gibbon called `the Tiberius of Christian Rome' was wicked even for a Renaissance pope. His eye for a pretty woman was said to be infallible, even in old age. He had ten known illegitimate children, four of them, including the notorious Cesare and Lucrezia, by Vanozza. When she became faded, the pope, aged fifty-eight, took another mistress.
Giulia Farnese was fifteen . . . became known throughout Italy as `the Pope's Whore' and `the Bride of Christ'.
By Giulia, the pope had a daughter named Laura. . . (Alexander) followed Innocent VIII's example and openly acknowledged his children in what was called the Golden Age of Bastards. Plus II had even said that Rome was the only city in the world to be run by bastards.