The greatest advantage that this Pope procured his Family, was, that he married _Francesco Cibo_ with _Magdalen_ of _Medicis_, sister of _Leo_ the tenth that was afterwards, giving him the County of _Anguillara_, which was not of any importance in those dayes, and making him Captain General of the Forces of the Church: And in this he ended all the favours that he ever shewed his Family, which was very noble besides. * * * * * _Alexander_ the sixth succeeded _Innocentius_ in the Popedom, who was a barbarous, lascivious Pope, making no difficulty of bringing desolation upon the Church, and imbrewing his hands in innocent bloud, to advance and make great his kindred. In the reign of this Pope, the _Romans_ used to say, _That the Emperours had taught tyranny_, _and the Popes practised it_. He was cruel, covetous, and insatiable, in heaping riches together: He spent his retired hours all in lascivious pleasures, taking great delight to be embraced and caress’d by fair Ladies; whence the numbers of his Bastards was very great; many taking from thence occasion to say, _That he __had filled_ Rome _with Bastards_, _and_ Spain _with Whores_. ’Tis true, that he declared for his Heirs only, four male children, and two female: And though he used to change Ladies often, for variety and greater pleasure, yet he gave himself up to _Vanoccia_, a Roman Curtizan, whom he loved as his lawful Wife, and with whom he would sport and toy in publick, keeping her at his table, and in his house, as if she had been his true Wife, and this while he was Archbishop and Cardinal. Being made Pope, in the year 1492. the second of _August_, he introduced into _Rome_, not a _Nipotismo_, but rather a _Filiolismo_, nay indeed, a _Bastardismo_, that is, a company of Bastards, whom he brought with him, in his return from his Legation in _Spain_: And his first way to make him great was, by force of Arms, making league with this Prince, then with that, then with another, but still upon these conditions, to give Principalities, which he nam’d, to his bastard sons. For this end, he joyned in a Confederacy, which proved fatal to all _Italy_, with _Lewis_ the twelfth of _France_, with the Catholick King, the _Venetians_, and the _Florentines_; the Conditions of which League were, that they should dispossess the true and ancient Owners of the Provinces of _La Romagna_, _La Marca_, and _Umbria_; and that the whole should be made over to _Cesar Borgia_, the Popes son; who to this end had laid aside his Cardinals Cap, and taken in marriage _Charlotte_ of _Albret_, daughter to the King of _Navarre_, and allyed to the French King, and divers other great Princes.