In the first of a special series, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb steps into the shadowy world of the Borgias, one of history’s most infamous families. From Cesare’s ruthless ambition to Lucrezia ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...