Thus the Borgia pope Alexander VI took his regnal name in sequence after the Pisan Alexander V.

McGuane has little patience for the pretentious, complaining of those who "scramble to name flies and knots after themselves with a self-aggrandizing ardor unknown since the Borgia popes" and laments that modern fisherfolk, in Izaak Walton's words, are "no longer fitted for quietness and contemplation."

Beyond the chapel, the rooms of the Borgia Apartment become darker and more ominous, much as the ensuing history of the Church had grown darker under the Borgia popes.

"The second of the Borgia popes."

The historical fiction television series was created & directed by Neil Jordan and stars Jeremy Irons as the Borgia pope.

The Borgia pope, Pope Alexander VI had naked prostitutes grovelling on the floor for chestnuts during the Feast of the Chestnuts.

"Blood is thicker than holy water" is a quote from Mario Puzo's The Family, wherein the Borgia pope emphasizes that familial obligations are more important than religious ones.

Jacopo was Bishop of Paphos, in Cyprus, and had been named commander of the papal fleet by the Borgia pope, Alexander VI.

From 1489 to 1495 Josquin was a member of the papal choir, first under Pope Innocent VIII, and later under the Borgia pope Alexander VI.

The Antipope (1981) - Pooley and Omally take on the resurrected Pope Alexander VI the last Borgia pope.