Renaissance Popes: Innocent VIII (1484-1492). Pope Alexander VI—Borgia (1492-1503)

Innocent VIII. 1484-1492 Innocent VIII. 1484-1492 This pope, whose real name was Loranzo Gibo, was born in Genoa, 1943. At the death of his predecessor, Sixtus IV, pandemonium reigned supreme in Rome. The nobles and the cardinals barricaded their homes in mortal fear of the mob that rioted in the streets. Houses were broken into and robbed. The instigators of the wild confusion was the aristocracy. What it aimed at was to intimidate the papacy into renouncing its claims to the headship of the...