Borgia, Caesar : Cesare Borgia (c.1476-1507), Italian soldier & politician, & his father, Pope Alexander VI, enhanced the political power of the papacy. His policies led his Machiavelli to cite him as an example of his Il principe, ‘the Prince’ (q.v.).
... for Ludovico, Regent of Milan. 1483 - The Virgin of the Rocks. 1500-1 - Leonardo goes back to Florence. 1502(June) - Military engineer to Caesar Borgia in Romagna. 1503(April) - Back to Florence. 1503-6 - Painting of Mona Lisa. 1507 - Leonardo is appointed as "painter and engineer in ordinary"... day to day." 19 Only his constant search for new frontiers can explain his decision to enter the service of the ruthless commander-in-chief of the Papal Army, Cesare Borgia, son of the notorious Pope Alexander VI. 20 Borgia was entrusted with the mission of gaining control of central Italy, and Leonardo stayed with him as his "military engineer" for almost one year. Besides military advice,... Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503) became Pope Alexander VI in 1492. Indulging in orgies and crime he is often regarded as the personification of the declining moral standards of the Vatican during the Renaissance. His son Cesare (1475-1507) and his daughter Lucrezia (1480-1519) were of the same mould, unscrupulously pursuing power and wealth. For Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia was a model of ...
... principles can keep in Page 755 the heat of the Indian sun. It is difficult to know what iniquity reasoning of this sort would not cover. "I thoroughly believe in the ten Commandments," Caesar Borgia might have said in his full career of political poisonings and strangulations, "but they may do very well in one country and age without applying at all to another. They suited Palestine, but mediaeval ...
... that such principles can keep in the heat of the Indian sun. "It is difficult to know what inequity reasoning of this sort would not cover. 'I thoroughly believe in the Ten Commandments,' Caesar Borgia might have said in his full career of political poisonings and strangulations, 'but they may do very well in one country and age without applying at all to another. They suited Palestine, but mediaeval ...
... elsewhere! Sri Aurobindo is aghast at this kind of logic: It is difficult to know what inequity reasoning of this sort would not cover. "I thoroughly believe in the Ten Commandments," Caesar Borgia might have said in his full career of political poisonings and strangulations, "but they may do very well in one country and age without applying at all to another. They suited Palestine, but... (1958). Page 256 went also to Krishna's life to draw a lesson in nation-building. The essay, however, begins rather unexpectedly with a glance at Brutus' killing of his friend Julius Caesar: It was not in vain that Brutus polluted his hands with the blood of his own beloved comrade and exclaimed by way of palliating his sanguinary action, "As he was ambitious, I slew him". Ambition ...
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