If every era gets the historical fiction it deserves, we have been good indeed. From the transcendent psychological rummagings of Hilary Mantel to the gooey pleasures of Philippa Gregory, we can set ...

The year is 1492. The holiest man in Christendom is a lecher, a scoundrel, a nepotist, a simonist, and an accomplice to murder. Several murders. Half a dozen, by my count, in his first few days as ...

A fresco fragment by the Renaissance master Bernardino di Betto, better known as Pintoricchio, shows baby Jesus. Created during the papacy of Pope Alexander VI, the infamous Rodrigo Borgia, it was ...

Wondering where to watch The Borgias Season 1 online? We have all the streaming details right here. The Borgias is a historical series that aired in 2011. It follows the Borgia family and their rise ...

NEW YORK - Jeremy Irons couldn't resist. The role he was invited to play - Rodrigo Borgia - is a towering historical figure who, five centuries ago, becomes pope through whatever-it-takes scheming, ...