Borgia is a strategic card game. Murder, corruption, power, "la famiglia", politics and money. Just the history books and hundreds of years back in time. In Southern and Western Europe, the time between 1475 and 1550 marks the Renaissance; a new cultural and social movement based on the classical era. Italy experienced turbulent times as the rival city-states, dominated by influential families, competed for absolute power. The players take the names of these families and bribe key figures, murder troubled high-ranking people and actually do everything on behalf of the family to get the Papacy. And, as is still the case; Being pope means power. Absolute power!