Less influential members of the Conclave sold themselves for gold; to meet their demands the Borgia sent Ascanio Sforza four mules laden with coin in open day, requesting him to distribute it in proper portions to the voters.

The fiery Giuliano della Rovere remained implacable and obdurate.

In the Borgia his vehement temperament perceived a fit antagonist.

The armor which he donned in their first encounters he never doffed, but waged fierce war with the whole brood of Borgias at Ostia, at the French Court, in Romagna, wherever and whenever he found opportunity.[2] He and five other Cardinals--among them his cousin Raphael Riario--refused to sell their votes.

But Roderigo Borgia, having corrupted the rest of the college, assumed the mantle of S.Peter in 1492, with the ever-memorable title of Alexander VI.
[1] Roderigo was the son of Isabella Borgia, niece of Pope Calixtus III., by her marriage with Joffre Lenzuoli.