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Pope Alexander VI, born Roderic Llançol i de Borja (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503), was Pope from 11 August 1492 until his death. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance Popes, partly because he acknowledged fathering several children by his mistresses. Therefore his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing his pontificate. However, two of Alexander's successors, Sixtus V and Urban VIII, described him as one of the most outstanding popes since St. Peter.While undisputedly a corrupt and ruthless man, Rodrigo did have a few softer traits. He was for instance far more tolerant to Judaism than most Popes, and gave the Jews sanctuary in Rome from persecution during his reign. This led to rumours that he himself was Jewish, or of Jewish decent. Which is possible, due to the number of Jews who converted in Spain to allow themselves a better existence.

Pope Alexander had a very severe accuser, for his private conduct and for their ruthlessness with which favored simony and mingled politics with religion, in Ferrara Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). These, bitter enemy of the Medici, favored the expulsion of Piero breadwinner in 1494 and, after gaining dominance in the Signoria, he gained control and became the political and spiritual leader. For a long time critic of the papal Rome costumes, after obtaining this position of power Savonarola he augmented accusations against Pope Alexander who, irritated, called him in 1495 to Rome to clear himself, and forbade him to preach [15] .Among the 1495 and 1497 the Pope continued his policy of weakening, ordering that the Convent of San Marco in Florence (of which Savonarola was prior) was brought back in the Lombardy district [2] and, on the other hand, build relationships with enemies of the Florentine friar, collected in degliArrabbiati party.