Borgia

[bawr-juh, -zhuh, bawr-jah]

noun

1. Cesare 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.

2. Lucrezia Duchess of Ferrara, 1480–1519, sister and political pawn of Cesare Borgia: patron of the arts.

3. their father Rodrigo Alexander VI.

Borgia

/ ˈbordʒa /

noun

1. Cesare (ˈtʃezare), son of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). 1475–1507, Italian cardinal, politician, and military leader; model for Machiavelli's The Prince

2. his sister, Lucrezia (luˈkrɛttsja), daughter of Rodrigo Borgia. 1480–1519, Italian noblewoman. After her third marriage (1501), to the Duke of Ferrara, she became a patron of the arts and science

3. Rodrigo (rodˈriɡo). See Alexander VI

Example Sentences

The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more.

From Los Angeles Times

Then came such TV shows as the British miniseries “Glue” and a bit part on Showtime’s “The Borgias.”

From Los Angeles Times

Cesare Borgia would die alone, caught in an ambush in Spain.

From Literature

Borgia was happy to play six-on-six, fielding a group of young players without one true star but with a surplus of speed.

From Los Angeles Times

Irons is on fire as the driven clergyman who ascends to papal power, and the show’s intelligent, well-researched scripts draw effective parallels between the Borgias and later families that sought and wielded political power.

From New York Times