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The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope Blessed Mother and designatedBy Michael de la Bdoyre The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope tells the story of two men whom the patterns of Providence brought into mortal conflict: Fra Girolamo Savonarola of the Order of Preachers and Pope Alexander VI of the Borgia family. Each representative of certain High Renaissance ideals, they are well known as historical figures yet poorly understood as individuals. For Michael de la Bdoyre, that poor understanding obscures the