Alexander VI succeeds Innocent VIII as pope

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• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Routledge pp. 68-73 · open book

  The basic case for this controversy is the Pico case, and the arguments used by Pico's attackers and defenders. In the last years of his life, Pico's situation was greatly eased by the advent to office in 1492 of a new pope. In that year, Innocent VIII was succeeded as the spiritual head of Christendom by Alexander VI, the Borgia pope, one of the most publicised and colourful characters of the Renaissance.

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