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CONTENTS

BOOK I
THE HOUSE OF THE BULL
CHAPTER
I. THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA
II. THE REIGNS OF SIXTUS IV AND INNOCENT VIII
III. ALEXANDER VI
IV. BORGIA ALLIANCES

BOOK II
THE BULL PASCANT
I. THE FRENCH INVASION
II. THE POPE AND THE SUPERNATURAL
III. THE ROMAN BARONS
IV. THE MURDER OF THE DUKE OF GANDIA
V. THE RENUNCIATION OF THE PURPLE

BOOK III
THE BULL RAMPANT
I. THE DUCHESS OF VALENTINOIS
II. THE KNELL OF THE TYRANTS
III. IMOLA AND FORLI
IV. GONFALONIER OF THE CHURCH
V. THE MURDER OF ALFONSO OF ARAGON

VI. RIMINI AND PESARO
VII. THE SIEGE OF FAENZA
VIII. ASTORRE MANFREDI
IX. CASTEL BOLOGNESE AND PIOMBINO
X. THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ARAGON
XI. THE LETTER TO SILVIO SAVELLI
XII. LUCREZIA'S THIRD MARRIAGE
XIII. URBINO AND CAMERINO
XIV. THE REVOLT OF THE CONDOTTIERI
XV. MACCHIAVELLI'S LEGATION
XVI. RAMIRO DE LORQUA
XVII. "THE BEAUTIFUL STRATAGEM"
VIII. THE ZENITH

BOOK IV
THE BULL CADENT
I. THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI
II. PIUS III
III. JULIUS II
IV. ATROPOS

BOOK I
THE HOUSE OF THE BULL
"Borgia stirps: BOS : atque Ceres transcendit Olympo, Cantabat nomen
saecula cuncta suum."
Michele Ferno

CHAPTER I
THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA
Although the House of Borgia, which gave to the Church of Rome two
popes and at least one saint,(1) is to be traced back to the eleventh
century, claiming as it does to have its source in the Kings of Aragon,
we shall take up its history for our purposes with the birth at the city of
Xativa, in the kingdom of Valencia, on December 30, 1378, of Alonso

de Borja, the son of Don Juan Domingo de Borja and his wife Doña
Francisca.
1 St. Francisco Borgia, S.J.--great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI,
born at Gandia, in Spain, in 1510.
To this Don Alonso de Borja is due the