El fin de los Borgia - Ep.6 (Los Borgia. Sed de poder)

Dominaron Roma y la cristiandad, pero no pudieron dejar la huella en la historia que ellos hubieran querido y por la que mataron (literalmente). Muerto Alejandro VI –seguramente con los mismos métodos que él empleó mil veces con otros–, sus enemigos se repartieron el botín como quisieron y el halo de su leyenda negra les robó hasta un monumental descanso final: los restos de los papas Borgia duermen olvidados en una humilde iglesia romana. El odio hacia los Borgia fue equivalente al poder que ejercía la familia. El hecho de que alguien proveniente de la península ibérica accediera al trono papal era una ofensa para muchos de los ilustres clanes italianos, pues este solo podía ser ocupado por compatriotas; con su elección se le estaba otorgando poder a un extranjero, algo imperdonable, y además a un extranjero que nada más ponerse el solideo papal se rodeó de los suyos y empezó a dar cargos relevantes a su familia y amigos, en especial a sus hijos. Escucha la historia completa en el podcast. Déjanos tu comentario en Ivoox o Spotify, o escríbenos a [e-mail] Comparte nuestro podcast en tus redes sociales, puedes realizar una valoración de 5 estrellas en Apple Podcast o Spotify. Texto: Iván Mourín Dirección, locución y producción: Iván Patxi Gómez Gallego Contacto de publicidad en podcast: [e-mail]

Episode Transcript

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Great reports of very history presents.The Borgia set of power. They dominated
Rome and Christianity, but could notleave a mark on the story they wanted

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and literally killed for. Alexander surelysaw with the same methods that he employed
a thousand times with others his enemies. The spoils were distributed as they wished,
and the halo of their black legendstole from him until a monumental final
rest. The remains of the Borgiapopes sleep forgotten in a humble Roman church.

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Chapter six. The end of theBorgia a text from Ivan Mouring.
The hatred of the Borgia was equivalentto the power exercised by the family.

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The fact that someone from the IberianPeninsula came to the papal throne was an
offence for many of the illustrious Italianclans, since it could only be occupied
by compatriots. With his election hewas being given power to a somewhat unforgivable
alien and, in addition, toa foreigner who just went on to get

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solitaire papal, surrounded his own andbegan to give relevant charges to his family
and friends, especially his children.All this led to the formation of a
smear campaign towards the Spanish family,creating an authentic black legend to dirty his
name. Murders, infestation, depravity, dozens of terrible stories arose about them

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and not all were false. Andit is that although Rodrigo Borgia was not
that monster that the mythology of romanticisminsisted on showing us through the pen of
Victor Hugo Alejandro dumos or Pollineg couldnot sustain his absolute innocence. Both he
and his son Caesar killed or gavethe order to kill dagger sword on many

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occasions by strangulation or with poison singit. The poison of the Borgia poison
is quite an art. It's not just about poisoning and letting the

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victim die. Without further ado.The elegance of the poison lies in various
factors of effectiveness, damage that youwant to cause and, perhaps most importantly,
the quality of being undetectable. Andfor this the Borgia were very gifted.
And not everything is based on legends. It is known that they even

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had a poisoner from the Sebastián PinzónChamber, who would have acted on their
behalf on more than one occasion.Renaissance Italy poisons such as Bella Donna and
arsenic were frequently used by the mostpowerful families to eliminate competition and acquire power.

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Taking a step further, the Borgiaswould be made with a new ponzoña
in Perugia' s cut or singit. Arsenic was sprinkled in fresh pork
vines to make it, leaving itto be fermented in a vessel for a
month. After the decomposition, afterthe evaporation of the fluids, a whitish

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saline powder would be obtained that wouldintensify the arsenic action by the toxins absorbed
during the process. But there areother authors of the time who argue that
the true elaboration of the song wascarried out by mixing arsenic salts of phosphorus
and copper salts. In any case, this poison supplied in small doses in

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food or drink, as well assimple arsenic, is not instantly fatal,
but the symptoms become worse with eachnew application. Since it has a cumulative
quality, it has an important adhesioncapacity in areas such as skin, hair,
and nails. Of course, everythingwill depend on intent and interest,
because the victim dies in high doses, there are hours of death due to

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insufficiency, circulatory with previous vomiting anddiarrhea in large quantities. But this would
not remain there, because within thebroad legend about the Borgia it is mentioned
that even Leonardo da Vinci himself wasforced to create a perfect poison for them.
In 1, 500 two he wentto work for the Borgia House as

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a military engineer. After years ofservice for the Duke of Milan Ludovico Esforza.
Shortly after he began his task,César Borgia ordered him to produce an
impossible poison to detect for the tasters, with the intention of using it against
Cardinal Franco Minetto, who was runningfor the papacy, wanted to eradicate the
corruption that defiled ecclesiastical power. Facedwith the insistent threats of Alejandro Vito'

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s son, he investigated various poisonsof the time, without too many results
to adapt to what was being demandedof him, until finding one that would
be applied to Lucrecia Borgia' scat, believing at first that it had
worked, it was decided to useit with mineto during a dinner organized by

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the Borgia family. The moment thecardinal was going to taste the new poison,
the cat made the act of presencethings of destiny. The man died
at that very moment. He hadchoked on a fish thorn, but Caesar
would believe that everything had gone asplanned, and Da Vinci was spared a

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harsh punishment. They say that whoeverby iron kills, by iron dies,
but who poisons by poison dies.In the case of the Italian Borgia,
it is possible according to the lastdays. In the land of Alexander VI,

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five of August of 1, 500three, took place in the country
village of Cardinal Adriano da Corneto,the former secretary of the pontiff a banquet
attended as guests Alexander VI and hisson Cesar all the diners became sick,
although only Pope Morelia. To dateit is not known with certainty whether it

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was due to massive poisoning by eror whether the indisposition was the result of
malaria that plagued the area where theVilla de Corneto was located in those days.
The truth is that, with thedesire to continue denigrating the Borgia family,
rumor spread that Caesar had been responsiblefor the massive poisoning by accident,
he was already branded cruel even tobe responsible for the murder of his brother

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John, to relieve him of commandof the pontifical armies, so it was
not difficult to expand this rumor.For some, the plan would have been
to finish the cardinal by handing overa series of bottled wine to the sommelier
in the face of ignorance of thereal content, the servant would have scavenged

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the poisoned drink into everyone' scups, including the Pope and his son.
Others report that Corneto himself was theauthor of such an act. Also
candidates were the Orsini family, theVentivoglio and even the future pope, Julio
Segundo, among many other enemies ofthe Borgia. In any case, at
that banquet, Rodrigo Borgia contracted theevil that led them to the tomb at

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seventy- two years old. Onthe night of August 12, fevers bent
the pope, who had been indisposedfor days, with vomiting and feverish spikes.

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It wouldn' t be the onlycase. Other diners present at Corneto
' s house were sick at thattime with similar symptoms such as César Borgia
himself, who was preparing to travelwith his army to Perugia. Fortunately,
the Duke of Valentinoa' s youthplayed in his favor and allowed him to
overcome the disease with sangria and icedbaths. The symptomatology present also corresponded to

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the disease that was spreading during thosesummer months in the area the bad area.
The increases in fever and chills,along with severe episodes of vomiting and
diarrhea, two and abdominal pains,prostrated Alejandro I saw in bed having brief
episodes of improvement when he was treatedwith severe bleeding ordered by Bernardo Don Giovanni,

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bishop of Venosa, and his personalproducing physician. However, these symptoms,
which are also attributable to other typesof diseases, such as dysentery,
coincide with the consumption of cantarela andits main compound, arsenic, so that
the theory of poisoning would also befeasible. The truth is that the first

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symptoms characteristic of arsenic intake are theclassics of food poisoning, abdominal pains and
vomiting that would begin within the firsthour, something that apparently occurs due to
an irritation of the stomach. Butin the face of the impossibility of analyzing
the remains, only speculation remains.The black legend accompanied Pope Borgia until the

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moment of his death. The gossipspread the rumor that he had made an
eleven- year pact with the devilto achieve the papacy and that deadline expired
by those dates. On the 11thof August of one thousand four hundred and
ninety- two held the chair ofSt Peter and on the 11th of August
of one thousand and five hundred andthree, the parka decided to come and

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seek him, decreeing what his finaldestiny would be. By then aggravating the
symptoms he was suffering from. Itis said that, in an attempt to
postpone the moment of surrendering his soulto the deathbed, Alexander VI would have
tried to renegotiate a postponement with thePrince of Darkness, while seven demons and

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myescus of the colour of the zabachestood guard before his chambers. If this
is true, the agreement did notcome to a good conclusion. Rodrigo Borgia
spied on the evening of August 18, 1, 500, three, either
for poisoning or malaria. As JosephApeles Santo tells the area in the book

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The Dead Pope Lives the Pope.According to the chronicler Jacopo da Volterra,
terror seized the servants of the Pontiff, who believed that hellish demons would come
to snatch his soul. Not onlydid they abandon him, but they stole
everything they could from his chambers beforethey left. Legend has it that it
was the carpenters who had to putin the Ataud as they could a corpse

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already swollen and decomposed. But thereality is that it was the master of
pontifical ceremonies the abate and or hansburgChart who cleaned and defended him and put
a white robe on him at thedeath of Alexander VI of his closest children

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lived Caesar Lucrecia, son fré Peter, Louis and John had died. Everyone
was affected by losing the papal protectionhalo, but more than anyone else,
Caesar, who really shut up.Unfortunately, after a failed strategy to guarantee
the election of an end Pope tohis interests, Borgia would lose the conquered
territories and all his military strength.In addition, ecclesiastical power fell into the

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hands of a declared enemy Julian ofthe Rovere, who would occupy the papacy
by the name of Julius II.After the sudden death of Pius III.
Among his first movements were those aimedat the arrest of César, which got

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the Viceroy of Naples, Gonzalo Fernándezde Córdoba, who would send him to
Spain to imprison him in Chinchilla andin the castle of La Mota, although
he managed to escape in October of1, 500 six. Five months later
he would be ambushed in Vienna bymen of the Count of Lerín, who

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murdered him. For her part,Lucrecia would live sixteen more years without great
upheavals and being loved in her duchy, ferrara the little power that remained to
the Borgia died forever with her in1, 500 nineteen. She was thirty
- nine years old and had justgiven birth to her eighth child. Thank

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