The moment Alexander VI became pope the alert was given by Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici: ''Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that his world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will inevitably devour us all.''Alexander and his son Cesare have historically been accused of bedding Alexander's daughter, and Cesare's sister, Lucrezia, and to support the accusation two papal bulls were issued in 1501, one stating that her child, Giovanni Borgia, was Cesare's, while the second, kept secret, stated the child was Alexander's.Alexander, Cesare and Lucrezia were present at the infamous Banquet of Chestnuts, during which, wrote William Manchester in his A World Lit Only by Fire: ''Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity.... After everyone was exhausted, His Holiness distributed prizes....''The most vile accusation took place in 1502 when Prince Astorre Manfredi's
