Do you feel that the Borgia get a bad rap sometimes? I was reading about Pope Alexander VI’s religious tolerance to Jews and I wonder why that never shows up even in “liberal” works like say the Assassin’s Creed II game.

I would say that the Borgia weren’t that much worse than other Renaissance elites, and a bunch of their bad rep comes from the fact that they were Spanish trying to entrench themselves in Italian politics at a time when the Spanish were gaining influence. 

On the other hand, let’s not kid ourselves that they were much better either.