ALEXANDER STILLE writes frequently about Italy. His latest book is "The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country With a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio ...

“I sometimes think,” sang the Poet Omar, “that never blows so red the rose as where some buried Caesar bled.” Few, if any. roses bloomed in the church of Spain’s highland town of Viana where lethal ...

Five hundred years after he was killed in battle, the remains of Cesare Borgia, the notorious inspiration for Machiavelli's The Prince, are to be moved into a Spanish church. Banned from holy ground ...

VIANA, Spain, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Half a millennium after his death in battle, the remains of the notorious Cesare Borgia are to be re-interred for a second time in Spain. Borgia, the bastard son of ...

“It’s like ‘The Borgias’ meets ‘Game of Thrones’ meets ‘Dawson’s Creek.'” That’s how Francois Arnaud, who plays Cesare Borgia in Showtime’s “The Borgias,” described the Season 2 finale airing at 9 p.m ...

In a geostrategically located region riven by political upheaval and military conflict, providing an arena for competition between great powers, the members of a powerful ruling family had a ...