Pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
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He took the name of a Roman conqueror, not a saint, and led armies himself — the pope who turned the Vatican into a Renaissance power through war, art, and ruthless diplomacy.
Born Giuliano della Rovere in 1443, he became head of the Catholic Church in 1503 and immediately set about expanding papal territory by force, earning the nickname "Warrior Pope" for his personal military campaigns in Romagna. In 1506 he established the Vatican Museums, founded the Swiss Guard, and ordered the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica — funding it through indulgences that would later ignite the Reformation. Two years on he commissioned Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Raphael Rooms, twin monuments of High Renaissance ambition. Across the Atlantic he ratified the Treaty…
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By his modesty. his readiness, his prudence, and his other virtues he has known how to earn the affections of every one...
I will not live in the same rooms as the Borgias lived. He [Pope Alexander VI] desecrated the Holy Church as none before.
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