Cesare Borgia, named Duke Valentino by the people became a prince do to his father's influence. His best efforts put forward still he could not maintain his state after his father's influence failed. The failure was not the Dukes fault, but rather caused by bad luck. Pope Alexander VI wanted to make his son great, but since the troops were all a part of the Orsini and the Colonnesi and their allies he could not rely on them. Alexander did not oppose of the French coming into Italy, he made it easier for them to do so. The Duke takes matters into his own hands and depends solely on himself. The Duke destroys all of his disloyal generals. He weakens the Orsini and Colonnesi parties in Rome by giving their men large subsidies and making the men
