Cesare Borgia (;, ; 13 September 1475 or April 1476 – 12 March 1507 ), Duke of Valentinois, was an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal.

Stefano Infessura writes that Cardinal Borgia falsely claimed Cesare to be the legitimate son of another man — Domenico d ' Arignano, the nominal husband of Vannozza de ' Cattanei.

Profile portrait of Cesare Borgia in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome ca.

Cesare Borgia leaving the Vatican ( 1877 ) by Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri

However, when his father died, and a rival to the Borgia family entered the Papal seat, Cesare was overthrown in a matter of months.

Machiavelli attributes two episodes to Cesare Borgia that were at least partially executed by his father: the method by which the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.

Cesare Borgia briefly employed Leonardo da Vinci as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503.

Cesare Borgia had wanted to take over Mantua while Isabella d ' Este was ruling.

Cesare was also father to at least 11 illegitimate children, among them Girolamo Borgia, who married Isabella Contessa di Carpi, and Lucrezia Borgia, who, after Cesare's death, was moved to Ferrara to the court of her aunt, Lucrezia Borgia.

* The 1981 BBC series The Borgias, starring Oliver Cotton as Cesare Borgia.

* The 2011 Showtime series The Borgias, starring François Arnaud as Cesare Borgia.

* The 2011 Canal + series Borgia, starring Mark Ryder as Cesare Borgia.

* The 2009 CBBC series Horrible Histories, with Mathew Baynton playing Cesare Borgia in one of the sketches.

* Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia ( 2009 ) by Robert Lalonde

* Cesare Borgia by Sarah Bradford

* In Resident Evil ( video game ), a portrait of Cesare Borgia can be seen hanging in the dining room of the mansion.

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Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

In the interim, the President of the Senate Cesare Merzagora served as acting president.

but did not find space in Cesare Prandelli's plans as the latter preferred Luca Toni as the main striker, with Pazzini and Bojinov acting as second strikers.

However, feeling unfulfilled with acting, Ewa remarried a builder named Cesare Paladino in 1974 and abandoned her acting career to enrol at university and fulfil her childhood ambition of becoming a teacher.

* 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.

He supported Cesare Borgia and reconfirmed him as Gonfalonier ; but after a brief pontificate of twenty-six days he died ( 18 October 1503 ) of an ulcer in the leg, or, as some have alleged, of poison administered at the instigation of Pandolfo Petrucci, governor of Siena.

* Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain General of the Church, an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal.

Although he was an immensely capable general and statesman, Cesare would have trouble maintaining his domain without continued Papal patronage.

In the game Cesare has a stated desire to use both the Papal army and his family's political connections to usurp control over all of Italy.

* The Last Days of Papal Rome by Raffaele De Cesare ( 1909 ) London, Archibald Constable & Co.

* 1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.

* October 30 – The Banquet of Chestnuts is held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace of Rome.

Pandolfo IV, his son ( 1500 ), lost Rimini to Cesare Borgia, after whose overthrow it fell to Venice ( 1503 – 1509 ), but it was later retaken by pope Julius II and incorporated into the Papal States.

After Novello's death ( 1465 ), Cesena returned to the Papal States, but was again seized by a local seignor, Cesare Borgia, in 1500.

It was completed by the Papal governor Lorenzo Zane in 1480, and was used by Cesare Borgia as jail for Caterina Sforza.

In 1500 Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, carved for himself an ephemeral Duchy of Romagna, but his lands were reabsorbed into the Papal States after his fall.

In 1502, Cesare Borgia, with the connivance of his Papal father, Alexander VI, dispossessed Duke Guidobaldo and Elisabetta Gonzaga.

In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Cesare Borgia is captain general of the Papal army.

There was some thoughts that the Church was keen on coming to terms with Hitler as he represented a strong resistance against Communism: the Papal Nuncio in Berlin ( Cesare Osenigo ) is reported to have been “ jubilant ” about Hitler's rise to power and that the new government would soon be offering the same concessions to the Church that Mussolini thought necessary to do previously in Italy.

The Banquet of Chestnuts, known more properly as the Ballet of Chestnuts, refers to a fête in Rome, and particularly to a supper held in the Papal Palace by Cardinal Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI on October 30, 1501.

Although Cesare managed to seize the remnants of the Papal treasury for his own use, he was unable to secure Rome itself, as French and Spanish armies converged on the city in an attempt to influence the Papal conclave ; the election of Pius III ( who soon died, to be replaced by Julius II ) stripped Cesare of his titles and relegated him to commanding a company of men-at-arms.

Julius II, having secured his own control of the Papal armies by arresting and imprisoning Cesare, first in Rome and later in Madrid, quickly moved to re-establish Papal control over the Romagna by demanding that Venice return the cities she had seized ; the Republic, although willing to acknowledge Papal sovereignty over them and pay Julius an annual tribute, refused to surrender the cities themselves.

He records the orgy known as the Banquet of Chestnuts held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace on October 30, 1501.

Cesare departed alone with the Papal army for Rome, where he took Caterina.