| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Borgia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bor·gia |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bôr j , -zh |
| Italian family, influential from the 14th to the 16th century, that included the son and daughter of Pope Alexander VI. Cesare (1475?–1507), a religious, military, and political leader, was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince. Lucrezia (1489–1519), the Duchess of Ferrara, was a patron of learning and the arts.
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