Sixtus Iv News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> narrator: by the 1470s, the power families has been embroiled in power struggles for generations and the newly appointed pope sixtus iv feels an imminent threat from one of his rivals. >> there's conflict with the d medicis. >> they were a messy family. i think about them being the dynasty of the renaissance. >> narrator: the medicis has interfered with businesses of the de la rovaries. >> one of them says the answer to our problem is get rid of the medici, get rid of this headach

>> narrator: in august of 1492, 23 cardinals must elect a new pope who will lead more catholics than the world has ever known. >> the cardinals will live in the sistine chapel until they finally decide who's pope. so it's a very intense hot house. >> narrator: every powerful italian family has a seat at the table and a horse in the race. >> the two most powerful factions in this conclave, one was led by a cardinal named sforza. his primary rival was julian know della rovere. >> juliano dell rove ra rovere, nephew of sixtus iv has inherited his uncle blind