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 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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Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: after Gian Giacomo Trivulzio had ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his entrance into Milan.

Cesare called for a reconciliation, but imprisoned his condottieri in Senigallia, a feat described as a " wonderful deceiving " by Paolo Giovio, and had them executed.

Machiavelli argued that, had Cesare been able to win the favor of the new Pope, he would have been a very successful ruler.

The new pope, Pius III, had Cesare arrested.

Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until Louis XII of France drove Sforza out of Italy.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

She further displayed a shrewd political acumen in her negotiations with Cesare Borgia, who had dispossessed Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, the husband of her sister-in-law and good friend Elisabetta Gonzaga in 1502.

It is often suggested that Cesare and Lucrezia may have had an incestuous relationship.

Tradition has it that Alfonso of Aragon was an illegitimate son of the King of Naples and that her brother Cesare may have had him murdered after his political value waned.

It is widely rumored that Lucrezia's brother Cesare was responsible for Alfonso's death, as he had recently allied himself ( through marriage ) with France against Naples.

They put up their own candidate ( Giulio Cesare Sacchetti ) but could not establish enough support for him and agreed to Pamphilj as an acceptable compromise, though he had served as legate to Spain.

Judge Cesare Terranova, a former parliamentary deputy and Antimafia reformer who had been the main prosecutor of the Mafia in the 1960s, was to have headed this office, but he was killed on September 25, 1979.

The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well.

The nationalist cause led Italy into World War I. Damiano Chiesa and Cesare Battisti were two well-known local irredentists who had joined the Italian army to fight against Austria-Hungary with the aim of bringing the territory of Trento into the new Kingdom of Italy.

They were put on trial for high treason and executed in the courtyard of Castello del Buonconsiglio ( Cesare Battisti had served in the Austrian army ).

Cesare Angelotti had been a wealthy landowner in Naples and defender of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic.

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

), Galileo's fiercest detractor, and Cesare Cremonini ( 1550 – 1631 ), a Paduan colleague who had refused to look through the telescope.

There were reports that the Bolognese Cesare Caravaggi had constructed one around 1626 and the Italian professor Niccolò Zucchi, in a later work, wrote that he had experimented with a concave bronze mirror in 1616, but said it did not produce a satisfactory image.

Gall's theories had an influence both on the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso and on his French rival, Alexandre Lacassagne.

Before the tournament, Paraguay manager Cesare Maldini had faced criticism in Paraguay but Chilavert defended Maldini respecting him for his experience.

As Toivonen had a contract with Lancia for the World Rally Championship, and Lancia boss Cesare Fiorio wanted Capone to win the European title, it was suggested that Fiorio might enter Toivonen in WRC events to keep him away from important ERC rounds.

In 1320 Robert of Anjou and his wife Sancia visited the island and were hosted by Cesare Sterlich, who had been sent by Charles II from the Holy See to govern the island in 1306 and was by this time nearly 100 years of age.