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 ...

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 ...

I’m predispositioned to devouring sweeping sagas set in days of yore when they revolve around sexual and political scheming, but even I could not have anticipated how quickly I’d be sucked into the ...

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 ...

Cesare Borgia, son of Rodrigo Borgia - Pope Alexander VI - brother of Lucrezia, a serial murderer by his early twenties, whose family name has long been a byword for corruption, greed and violence, is ...