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- In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.
- A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.
- The ruthless Rodrigo Borgia intends to become Pope and will not let anything stand in his way.
- A thief captures Duke of Riviera, decides to impersonate him and head to Rome.
- Central Italy in the Late Middle Ages. Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, the Duke of Alva's daughter, whom he has saved from being raped. When he learns about Diana's feud against the Borgia clan, he becomes aware of their infamous deeds.
- A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
- The tale opens with the election of Rodriga Borgia to the office of Pope Alexander VI. Then it switches to a succession of attempts by Caesar Borgia to kill or have killed Alfonzo of Aragon, husband of Lucretia. The assassinations are attempted while Lucretia, who constantly watches over her weak spouse, is away at various affairs of state and social life. While she is attending a banquet, Alfonzo is finally stabbed by one of Caesar's lieutenants. It is discovered that Lucretia's husband has been murdered under the direction of Caesar, which inflames the people to revolt, and the despot is overthrown and himself killed by the mob.
- Lola and Valasquez, to adventurers, are sorely in need of funds. They chance to meet Archibald Rivers, a banker, in a café one night, and begin to weave their web about him. Rivers has been entrusted with the care of Mary Harrison, an orphan. He is trustee of the fortune left her by her father. Mary has come to live in Rivers' house. She meets Donald, his stepson, and the seeds of love soon take root in the young folks. Mrs. Rivers is taken up entirely by her social duties. Her lack of interest in her home and husband causes Rivers to fall an easy prey to the wiles of Lola. Soon we find him enthralled by her, lavishing gifts upon her and satisfying her every wish. During all this time Rivers has been suffering severe financial reverses and on many occasions has been employing Mary's money to help him in his own business. Lola, meanwhile, has been inflamed with a passionate longing for Rivers. She wants him as her own, unmolested by any others. She has been reading of the crimes of the Borgias, and her fiendish mind evolves a plan to get Mrs. Rivers out of her way. One evening, as Mrs. Rivers gives a masque ball at her home, Lola, disguised by her long domino and mask, enters the ball room. She has prepared the fatal ring with its prong dipped in the venom of a Cobra snake. It takes but a moment and Mrs. Rivers is dead. Donald is determined to root out the mystery. Rivers, whose speculations have caused him to lose Mary's fortune, sees that his only chance to escape from punishment lies in his marriage to her. But Lola is firm. With Mrs. Rivers out of the way, Rivers must belong to her only. Donald, however, has labored ceaselessly, and his efforts have determined Lola as the murderess of his mother. But Fate has decided to become mistress of the situation. The drama shall be ended as she decrees. Valasquez, whom Lola has discarded for Rivers, kills his rival in a jealous rage. Lola has but one course left; she turns her weapon against herself, and as the Cobra's poison rushes through her veins, she falls across the body of Rivers. In the web she wove for the fly, the spider found her own undoing. Donald and Mary are left alone. Together they will strive to recover her fortune, and to spend their days, wrapped in a love as powerful and unfailing as the Cobra's venom in the Borgias ring.
- Ralph Channing, a rather dissolute young man, plans to marry Doris, the daughter of Marsden Saltwell, a wealthy collector of antiques. He fails to convince Doris' father that he is worthy or that his financial affairs are in good shape and in this frame of mind he calls upon Elwell, an unscrupulous attorney, for advice. Elwell is in league with the "Spider," a master criminal who, from his invalid chair, directs the machinations of a notorious gang of rascals. Knowing nothing of his attorney's plan, but willing to leave everything in his hands provided he can get the girl's money, Channing consents. Doris' father gets a polite note from an antique shop which calls attention to a rare vase just received and believed to have come down from the period when Lucretia Borgia held men's lives in the palm of her hand. Saltwell buys the vase. That evening, in the presence of his daughter, he examines his purchase. As he inserts his hand to feel the finish of the inside he falls dead. Grant, police reporter on the Chronicle, accompanies the detective sent to investigate. On the back of the dead man's hand he discovers three tiny punctures that have traces of a greenish substance spreading out underneath the skin. Picking up the vase that Doris says was in her father's hand when he fell, he approaches the lawyer who has arrived as he says to discuss a business matter with the unfortunate master of the house. Elwell registers a horror of the vase that arouses all of Grant's suspicions. The next day he does some sleuthing on his own account. Denied admittance to the lawyer's office, he climbs across an "I" beam and so gains admittance through a rear window. Among the lawyer's papers he finds the address of the antique dealer. She is arrested and confesses that poisoned needless were concealed within the vase sold to Marsden Saltwell. Elwell, trapped, admits that it was the "Spider's" idea to get Saltwell out of the way before he could change his will and thereby insure the money falling to whoever married Doris.
- The spoof arts magazine show presents a drama exploring the short cuts television takes in its treatment of art. Lucrezia Borgia, one of the most glamorous women of Renaissance Italy, discusses her role as patron of Italian art.
- 1996– TV-147.5 (24)TV Episode
- 1996– TV-147.6 (22)TV Episode
- A new hostess, Anne Williamson, arrives, but a disaster strikes on her flight.
- Leonard Nimoy narrates the story of the Borgias family. The legendary Italian Renaissance political family members included two Popes, and filled with exciting tales of murder, incest, and corruption.
- The Borgia's are known today for everything that was wrong with the Cathlolic Church around the time of the Renaissance and Reformation. Do they deserve their infamous reputation or are they historical scapegoats? Here are the facts historians have been able to verify.
- 2007–Podcast Episode