Chapter
1 1 | Fiammingo; having examined these two masterpieces at leisure,
2 1 | Innocent VIII, during which two hundred and twenty murders
3 1 | this, Caesar Borgia sent two bottles of poisoned wine
4 2 | order, he said, to have two more than the cardinals. ~
5 2 | liberation by the payment of two hundred thousand piastres,
6 2 | children--five boys and two girls. He then married Lucrezia
7 2 | Francesco, to allow each of them two thousand crowns a year.
8 3 | Francesco, he escaped, as on the two previous occasions, by the
9 3 | greater intensity on his two unhappy daughters. Their
10 3 | death relieved him from two other encumbrances: his
11 3 | were buried with the first two, and that when he had got
12 3 | reached His Holiness, and the two poor women, remembering
13 4 | was no human hope for the two lovers; an impassable gulf
14 4 | always. ~Up to that time the two women had not formed any
15 4 | to Rome Giacomo and his two other sons. He then recommenced
16 5 | possession of his fortune. ~The two sbirri departed, and the
17 5 | of September, 1598, the two women, supping with the
18 5 | assassins entered, and the two women awaited the issue
19 5 | room, accompanied by the two women. As they had said,
20 5 | mercy. One of them carried two great nails, such as those
21 5 | Lucrezia perceived the two sbirri, sharing the money
22 5 | noticed the wounds made by the two nails. The ladies, as soon
23 6 | time. He immediately hired two other sbirri to assassinate
24 6 | smudged his face, bought two asses, laden with charcoal,
25 6 | castle to the prison; the two brothers, when put to the
26 6 | behind his back to the frame; two men, relieved every five
27 6 | him to within a foot or two of the ground. If he stood
28 7 | caused her to be taken by two officers and led from the
29 7 | lever windlass, worked by two men." ~"Before hoisting
30 7 | wrists to the height of about two feet from the ground, while
31 7 | height of ten feet to that of two feet; her arms, from the
32 7 | confession, at the request of the two brothers, they were all
33 8 | Conforteria had gathered at the two prisons of Corte Savella
34 8 | place on a scaffold, ordered two to be made in nun's fashion--
35 9 | scaffold was then resumed. ~The two female prisoners followed
36 9 | ponderous axe, which, guided by two grooves, fell with its whole
37 9 | more broken down of the two, wept bitterly; but Beatrice
38 9 | of the scaffold, bounded two or three times in the air,
39 10| bed. ~The corpses of the two ladies were laid out each
40 10| of paying within the year two thousand five hundred Roman
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