Note 264 — BOOK THE SEVENTH.

Roderic Borgia, a native of Valencia in Spain, was elected Pope under the title of Alexander VI., on the 11th of August, 1492, and died on the 18th of August, 1502. He was a monster of profligacy and wickedness, and has been well called by Roscoe “the scourge of Christendom, and the opprobrium of the human race.”