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1 2 | thousand piastres, about f32,000 of our money. Francesco
2 8 | following, on Friday the 10th of September 1599, at eight
3 1 | incarnation of his time. ~On the 11th of August, 1492, after the
4 1 | On the 11th of August, 1492, after the lingering death-agony
5 10| The Tuesday following, the 14th of September; being the
6 2 | on the 18th of November, 1523, Giulio di Medici was proclaimed
7 5 | evening, the 9th of September, 1598, the two women, supping
8 8 | Friday the 10th of September 1599, at eight o'clock in the
9 1 | carried away by the French in 1809, and restored to the pope
10 1 | the pope by the Allies in 1814. As you have already in
11 2 | Thus it happened, on the 18th of November, 1523, Giulio
12 5 | stepping over the edge of the 386 terrace in the dark, had
13 5 | which was fixed for the 8th of September, the day of
14 2 | hand was given to those able to pay both assassins and
15 2 | of his spiritual head's abstraction of worldly matters to amass
16 10| and that it is a cruel abuse of justice to compel you
17 9 | sole condition that you accompany your relatives to the scaffold
18 5 | s body had been wrapped, accounting for its bloody condition
19 1 | wealth, as he already had acquired that of the Cardinals of
20 2 | Don Juan seemed bent on acquiring. Under the Bolognese Buoncampagno,
21 | across
22 7 | that any of the accused acted in self-defence, I hope
23 10| impression of the principal actors in this tragedy than can
24 4 | committing the crime--one being actuated by love, the other by hatred.
25 8 | Marcello, a man of much acumen and great experience in
26 4 | chestnut beard and eyebrows; add to these attractions a highly
27 8 | Beatrice's of taffetas. In addition she had a small black turban
28 9 | Bernardo came out, and was thus addressed on his appearance by the
29 2 | provoked it had passed. An adept in all manly exercises and
30 5 | if there appeared to be adequate grounds for doing so. On
31 5 | awaited the issue in the room adjoining. ~After a moment, seeing
32 9 | length, when she was properly adjusted, the executioner touched.
33 2 | spiritual than the temporal administration of his kingdom, Nicolo Cenci
34 9 | threshold. He fell on his knees, adoring the holy crucifix with great
35 5 | narcotic with his wine so adroitly that, suspicious though
36 4 | Rome, the scout sent in advance by the conspirators could
37 7 | should be confronted. ~They advanced into the torture chamber,
38 8 | in the matter, being the advocate of the poor." ~The pope
39 5 | whose white hair had so affected them. ~This time they showed
40 2 | were void of all natural affection, he hated his children,
41 6 | Marzio; whose mendacity she affirmed with such calm dignity,
42 10| till four o'clock in the afternoon; then, along with the remains
43 10| Franciscan monks in Rome; there, agreeably to her wish, it was buried
44 5 | containing the rest of the sum agreed upon, and they left. When
45 7 | eloquence that the pope, alarmed at the effect he was producing
46 1 | as those indulged in by Alcibiades and sung by Catullus. Leo
47 2 | was building the beautiful Aldobrandini Villa, and stated their
48 9 | required of her, she turned to Alessandro, the chief executioner,
49 3 | again petitioned the pope, alleging that their father dishonoured
50 1 | restored to the pope by the Allies in 1814. As you have already
51 2 | to him, to grant them an allowance out of their father's immense
52 9 | handcuffs, and placed him alongside his brother, covering him
53 7 | then retired, excepting d'Altieri, who knelt before him, saying-- ~ ~ ~
54 2 | abstraction of worldly matters to amass a net revenue of a hundred
55 3 | Beatrice full of trouble and amazement. ~The night following, the
56 8 | would not be forfeited. ~Amidst the general feeling of relief
57 | amongst
58 8 | ordered that her dowry; amounting to fifteen thousand crowns,
59 1 | Vinci, Correggio, Titian, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo,
60 9 | towards the bridge of Sant' Angela. Lucrezia, the more broken
61 6 | forcing the accused into an angular frame of wood about five
62 7 | or could not speak, she answered only by a motion of the
63 1 | exclaiming, "Suet idola anticorum." His first act was to despatch
64 5 | imprisoned conspirators anxiously awaited their return. On
65 3 | her shut up in a remote apartment of his palace, the key of
66 2 | Nicolo Cenci, afterwards apostolic treasurer during the pontificate
67 3 | night following, the same apparition again presented itself,
68 2 | him that he had a morbid appetite for novelties in crime,
69 6 | rope in readiness for its appliance. To increase the terror
70 6 | form of torture was only applied when an atrocious crime
71 6 | had been too lenient in applying the torture to, a young
72 8 | continued to pray. ~The time appointed being near at hand, they
73 6 | consisted mainly in the apprehensions it caused, comprised the
74 10| their blood; the executioner approached him and tore off his cloak,
75 5 | been castellan knew all the approaches to the fortress, made his
76 3 | believing it divine, has appropriated it to all his Madonnas,
77 5 | Guerra. The former was to approve, as he had done before,
78 1 | heard it; all the cardinals approved their colleague's proposal,
79 1 | the fourth, Alfonso of Aragon, who was stabbed to death
80 10| to-day recorded in their archives. ~Having now seen the tomb,
81 7 | been hasty, and heard the argument of Farinacci, who pleaded
82 4 | hired a sbirro named Marzio, arid Guerra a second named Olympio. ~
83 1 | Bartolommeo, Giulio Romano, Ariosto, Guicciardini, and Macchiavelli. ~
84 9 | life eternal!" She then arose, proceeded to the platform,
85 1 | Borgia. He had made every arrangement a plotter could make to
86 9 | of the scaffold. ~Whilst arrangements were being made for the
87 6 | killed Olympio happened to be arrested for another crime, and,
88 9 | was firm and unmoved. On arriving at the open space before
89 1 | character, which, passing from art into manners, gives to this
90 9 | gave her absolution 'in articulo mortis'. About five minutes
91 1 | Christian; you will thence ascend by a side door into the
92 5 | these words, the sbirri felt ashamed of their irresolution, and,
93 8 | Most Holy Father, I humbly ask pardon for appearing before
94 6 | hired two other sbirri to assassinate Marzio and Olympio. The
95 1 | brother Caesar caused to be assassinated; the third, Alfonso d'Este,
96 5 | will be remembered, the assassination would have been effected
97 9 | The sight of the great assemblage of people produced such
98 1 | Leo X died after having assembled under his reign, which lasted
99 6 | never known; it has been asserted, but without confirmation,
100 6 | smudged his face, bought two asses, laden with charcoal, and
101 9 | executioner was approaching to his assistance, some of the crowd, supposing
102 6 | displayed the greatest assurance, demanding to be the first
103 2 | Impious, sacrilegious, and atheistical, he never entered a church
104 1 | Rome of Nero succeeded the Athens of Pericles. ~Leo X succeeded
105 8 | she always had a strong attachment, as it commanded a view
106 4 | worst influences: it could attain excellence, and descend
107 10| and as one of them was attempting to lay it on the bier, it
108 4 | recommenced his infamous attempts upon Beatrice, and with
109 7 | where the torturer was in attendance; there, after cutting off
110 2 | seriously to attract public attention under the pontificate of
111 1 | church itself. There, the attentive cicerone will show you,
112 10| covered with flowers, and attired in the dress worn at her
113 2 | first began seriously to attract public attention under the
114 4 | and eyebrows; add to these attractions a highly educated mind,
115 5 | old man's death would be attributed to his having accidentally
116 10| below the middle height; the attributes are those of a Roman matron
117 7 | was producing among the audience, passionately interrupted
118 1 | his time. ~On the 11th of August, 1492, after the lingering
119 2 | Romans back to the simple and austere manners of the early Church,
120 3 | relief to Francesco, whose avarice pursued his sons even after
121 4 | suspicions of a plot would be avoided, and the real assassins
122 8 | threshold with the crucifix, awaiting the appearance of the unhappy
123 5 | How would it be if he were awake? And thus you steal our
124 3 | command. Every night she was awakened by a concert of music which
125 3 | over her shoulders. Her azure eyes bore a heavenly expression;
126 10| erect, as if about to step backwards; the executioner exhibited
127 1 | qualities and others its bad ones, it may nevertheless
128 8 | her mind to recover its balance, and from that moment she
129 2 | Medici. At the very first ballot after the wager, Giulio
130 10| the scaffold, and having bandaged his eyes, shattered his
131 7 | streets of Rome. But so barbarous a sentence shocked the public
132 7 | then lowered and untied; a barber reduced the dislocation
133 10| narrative, pay a visit to the Barberini Gallery, where you will
134 9 | poor lad had been already bared, as a preliminary to his
135 2 | their way home, tramping barefoot through France and Italy,
136 2 | over the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. ~Francesco Cenci was at
137 1 | Titian, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo, Giulio Romano, Ariosto,
138 1 | death on the steps of the basilica of St. Peter, and afterwards,
139 4 | separated them. They parted bathed in tears, promising to love
140 9 | hung, from a large cross beam, a ponderous axe, which,
141 10| bound his legs to one of the beams erected on the scaffold,
142 6 | body rendered her unable to bear the torture of the rope,
143 | become
144 | becoming
145 3 | wrapped herself up in the bedclothes, and obstinately refused
146 2 | to leave Salamanca, and beg their way home, tramping
147 6 | being suspended in the air, begged to be lowered, when she
148 3 | had now reached, he had behaved to her with the most extreme
149 3 | darkness of her own room she beheld a suite of apartments brilliantly
150 7 | thing we should never have believed, nor even for a moment supposed
151 3 | in Italy, that Raffaelle, believing it divine, has appropriated
152 1 | supper in his vineyard on the Belvidere; Cardinal Adrien was very
153 2 | Italian Don Juan seemed bent on acquiring. Under the
154 8 | her father's palace. She bequeathed five hundred crowns to the
155 | beside
156 10| from the body, which was so besmeared with dust and blood that
157 4 | Beatrice was susceptible to the best and the worst influences:
158 9 | was to do; he told her to bestride the plank and lie prone
159 4 | wife, whom he accused of betraying him; he gave her a violent
160 9 | to be raised by placing a billet of wood underneath it; all
161 9 | God grant that you be binding this body unto corruption,
162 6 | too late, and found his bird already in the hands of
163 1 | second, Alfonso, Duke of Bisiglia, whom her brother Caesar
164 9 | broken down of the two, wept bitterly; but Beatrice was firm and
165 9 | precautions to shorten the bitterness of death were of no avail,
166 10| state of high fever, was bled and put to bed. ~The corpses
167 9 | Cenci, in the name of our blessed Redeemer, our Holy Father
168 5 | Beatrice had given her a bloodstained sheet to wash. This, clue
169 5 | wrapped, accounting for its bloody condition by a lame explanation,
170 10| shattered his head with a blow of his mallet; then, in
171 4 | classical features he added blue eyes swimming in poetic
172 4 | noble families in Rome, of a bold, resolute, and courageous
173 2 | on acquiring. Under the Bolognese Buoncampagno, a free hand
174 6 | flesh of the wrist to the bone and dislocated the limbs,
175 3 | burn down his palace as a bonfire to celebrate the event. ~
176 3 | services. They were accordingly borne to the paupers' graves which
177 1 | Caesar Borgia sent two bottles of poisoned wine to his
178 10| afforded: whilst the head bounced away on one side of the
179 10| then made him kneel down, bound his legs to one of the beams
180 9 | platform of the scaffold, bounded two or three times in the
181 3 | His brutality then knew no bounds. He forced Lucrezia and
182 2 | soldiers of the Constable of Bourbon, saw holy things subjected
183 9 | slippers of the same hue, with bows of ribbon, as was the fashion;
184 1 | will visit the cloister of Bramante, in the middle of which,
185 5 | that you, who pretend to be brave and strong, have not courage
186 1 | cost by Leo X, he wished to break them to pieces, exclaiming, "
187 1 | of a weaver, others of a brewer of Utrecht, of whom no one
188 6 | silence with a handsome bribe, and then, buying for almost
189 2 | the cardinals had not been bribed; they had made a bet, that
190 2 | Pontine marshes heedless of brigands, although he might be alone
191 3 | beheld a suite of apartments brilliantly illuminated, and sensuous
192 2 | Adrien wished to bring the Romans back to the simple
193 9 | Angela. Lucrezia, the more broken down of the two, wept bitterly;
194 7 | to do so. ~"We caused a bucketful of water to be thrown over
195 1 | feet below the level, is built, on the identical place
196 3 | each other; the latter by a bungling medical practitioner whose
197 2 | acquiring. Under the Bolognese Buoncampagno, a free hand was given to
198 3 | the last he himself would burn down his palace as a bonfire
199 10| torches of white wax, which burned till four o'clock in the
200 2 | That is where I hope to bury them all." The architect
201 7 | advocates in Rome immediately busied themselves in preparing
202 9 | account of the fullness of her bust, to lay her neck upon the
203 1 | this interval a careless butler served the poisoned wine
204 6 | handsome bribe, and then, buying for almost their weight
205 3 | demon. To these sights, calculated to stimulate her passions,
206 1 | Son of a sister of Pope Calixtus III, Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia,
207 5 | making their escape. At her call they came to her, carried
208 8 | its provisions with much calmness and precision. Its last
209 | can
210 1 | tall pines and along its canals the shade and freshness
211 1 | the manners of the time. ~"Candidly confess," said he, "that
212 | cannot
213 9 | unmarried girl, wore a silk flat cap to match her corsage, with
214 3 | excesses of Tiberius at Capri. After an hour, the door
215 1 | Cardinals of Sant' Angelo, Capua, and Modena. To effect this,
216 1 | and his measures were so carefully taken as to leave no doubt
217 1 | and in this interval a careless butler served the poisoned
218 3 | crowns, and married her to Carlo Gabrielli, of a noble family
219 10| horses, foot people, and cars crowding as it were upon
220 6 | man, and very difficult to catch napping when warned in time.
221 1 | by Alcibiades and sung by Catullus. Leo X died after having
222 2 | which lasted long after the cause which provoked it had passed.
223 3 | his palace as a bonfire to celebrate the event. ~But Francesco
224 8 | the registrar entered the cell of Lucrezia and Beatrice
225 7 | Bernardo were taken to the cells of Tordinona; as for the
226 1 | relate to you how for three centuries the divine Raffaelle's Transfiguration
227 9 | which were lying ready in a chafing-dish fixed to the cart. Having
228 5 | under arrest and sent in chains to Naples. No incriminating
229 8 | them; they were placed on a chair, while the women continued
230 1 | this vast project. Every chance was provided against, except
231 8 | another tragical event changed the papal mind and frustrated
232 9 | to the sound of funeral chants. At its gates the sacred
233 8 | thirty-two thousand crowns to charities, with other pious legacies.
234 1 | Spain, in the absence of Charles the Fifth. The jest prospered
235 10| an the charming dimpled cheeks and perfect mouth mentioned
236 1 | papal nuncio, Francesco Cherigato, to the Diet of Nuremberg,
237 6 | cut off all his beautiful cherished fair hair, stained his beard,
238 9 | ornamented with gold rosettes and cherry-coloured fringe. The arms of both
239 9 | turned to Alessandro, the chief executioner, and asked what
240 2 | died, leaving him seven children--five boys and two girls.
241 8 | this case, but I had no choice in the matter, being the
242 1 | chapel to the right, the Christ Scourged, by Sebastian del
243 1 | and under his pontificate Christianity assumed a pagan character,
244 1 | itself. There, the attentive cicerone will show you, in the first
245 5 | person, having noticed this circumstance, would not be a party to
246 7 | her as to the facts and circumstances of the aforesaid parricide;
247 3 | beautiful youths and girls, half clad, such as she had seen in
248 4 | ladies for his beauty. To classical features he added blue eyes
249 8 | and precision. Its last clause desired her interment in
250 6 | another crime, and, making a clean breast, confessed that he
251 1 | Rome, you will visit the cloister of Bramante, in the middle
252 4 | he had married, and the close-fisted old man had left him, with
253 5 | his way in the dark to a closet at the end of the gallery.
254 5 | bloodstained sheet to wash. This, clue led to terrible consequences;
255 3 | victim released from his clutches. ~About the same time death
256 1 | cardinals approved their colleague's proposal, and Adrien became
257 4 | its inhabitants, should collect a party of a dozen Neapolitan
258 1 | their places in the Sacred College; these cardinals were entirely
259 6 | for the inventor. ~Lastly comes the torture of the rope
260 8 | strong attachment, as it commanded a view of her father's palace.
261 1 | St. Peter Montorio, which commands the whole of Rome, you will
262 6 | Marzio and Olympio. The one commissioned to put Olympio out of the
263 5 | violence, despatched a royal commissioner to Petrella to exhume the
264 2 | no outrage he would not commit if he hoped by so doing
265 5 | would not be a party to the committal of a double sin; the matter
266 4 | had private reasons for committing the crime--one being actuated
267 9 | whose pardon being formally communicated to him, he took off his
268 5 | they would fulfil their compact, they entered the room,
269 5 | made his way there with his companion. Beatrice awaited them at
270 6 | got out of the city, met a company of merchants under escort,
271 3 | from evil: her ruin was comparatively easy to compass; yet Francesco,
272 3 | was comparatively easy to compass; yet Francesco, to accomplish
273 10| cruel abuse of justice to compel you to witness this frightful
274 5 | well: since your cowardice compels me to do so, I will kill
275 2 | before, and electing a third competitor; they were even talking
276 10| which has enabled us to compile this sanguinary history;
277 4 | dissatisfied with Olympio, complained about him to Prince Colonna,
278 9 | with great devotion. He was completely covered with a large mourning
279 6 | obstinately denied both any complicity in the crime and any knowledge
280 8 | will. This was immediately complied with, and on his arrival
281 10| girl, wearing a headdress composed of a turban with a lappet.
282 6 | apprehensions it caused, comprised the threat of severe torture,
283 10| in my examination I have compromised and accused you, I have
284 5 | castle, where they had lain concealed all night and all day; for,
285 4 | devours the soul. When he conceived that the proposed crime
286 5 | of Francesco Cenci, and conceiving some suspicions of violence,
287 8 | so far as the women were concerned, they should be put to death
288 4 | road in vain, came to the conclusion that their prey had escaped,
289 4 | Giacomo Cenci, without whose concurrence the women would not act,
290 6 | it, five only refused to confess--a very satisfactory result
291 1 | without taking him into his confidence; he only instructed him
292 6 | been asserted, but without confirmation, that he succeeded--in reaching
293 8 | of the brotherhood of the Conforteria had gathered at the two
294 3 | covered with blushes and confusion, into the middle of this
295 6 | Clement VIII; and the pope, conjecturing that the judge had been
296 2 | seven months in which Rome, conquered by the Lutheran soldiers
297 8 | Farinacci, working on the papal conscience, succeeded, after long and
298 6 | across him at Terni, and conscientiously did his work with a poniard,
299 7 | coolness, she recovered consciousness, and cried, 'My God! I am
300 8 | to go to Monte Cavallo to consecrate a cardinal titular bishop
301 5 | and Giacomo had given his consent. Nothing now stood in the
302 8 | Under the influence of these considerations the pope mitigated the severity
303 4 | entered readily into the conspiracy. It will be remembered what
304 2 | Lutheran soldiers of the Constable of Bourbon, saw holy things
305 8 | unhappy family inspired a constantly increasing interest, many
306 4 | dismissed. ~After several consultations between the Cenci family,
307 7 | particulars of the crime contained in the confessions, that
308 5 | the sbirri a large purse containing the rest of the sum agreed
309 7 | daughter. In support of his contention he wished to put in the
310 7 | converse. We will therefore continue our pleadings on receiving
311 10| high complexion, graceful contour, straight nose, black eyebrows,
312 3 | intolerable, that the elder, contriving to elude the close supervision
313 1 | Caesar Borgia had under his control eighteen Spanish cardinals
314 4 | was arranged that Olympio, conversant with the district and its
315 7 | so this holds good in the converse. We will therefore continue
316 8 | hopes that the lives of the convicted persons would be spared;
317 7 | in the prayer, she shook convulsively and cried several times, '
318 7 | over her head; feeling its coolness, she recovered consciousness,
319 1 | out in melancholy tones a copy of Guido's Martyrdom of
320 10| bled and put to bed. ~The corpses of the two ladies were laid
321 1 | Raffaelle, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, Titian, Andrea del Sarto,
322 9 | be binding this body unto corruption, and loosing this soul unto
323 3 | unknown; the former by Paolo Corso di Massa, in the streets
324 1 | sculpture collected at vast cost by Leo X, he wished to break
325 8 | Lucrezia was made of black cotton stuff, Beatrice's of taffetas.
326 1 | nevertheless were mortal; ~Giofre, Count of Squillace, of whom little
327 8 | tranquil and almost joyful countenance. "Mother," said she, "the
328 6 | and known in other Latin countries as the strappado. ~It was
329 2 | To the liberator of his country." ~Giulio di Medici and
330 5 | brave and strong, have not courage enough to kill a sleeping
331 4 | of a bold, resolute, and courageous character, and idolised
332 7 | repentance, undergo death courageously, and not suffer you to be
333 1 | politicians, experienced courtiers, and moreover of real and
334 9 | him alongside his brother, covering him up with a magnificent
335 5 | money! Very well: since your cowardice compels me to do so, I will
336 5 | hinders you?" ~"It is a cowardly act," replied the assassins, "
337 1 | Lenzuoli Borgia, before being created cardinal, had five children
338 1 | cardinals were entirely his creatures, and he could command them
339 8 | speech, uttering despairing cries. Lucrezia heard the tidings
340 4 | reasons for committing the crime--one being actuated by love,
341 3 | occasion driven Giacomo, Cristaforo, and Rocco from his presence,
342 8 | of the Marchese di Santa Croce, a man seventy years of
343 10| horses, foot people, and cars crowding as it were upon one another.
344 1 | place where St. Peter was crucified, a little temple, half Greek,
345 5 | portrayed in pictures of the Crucifixion; the other bore a mallet:
346 7 | sockets; she uttered a loud cry, and swooned away. ~"We
347 6 | down the streets of Rome, crying, "Charcoal! charcoal!" Then,
348 7 | confessions, that he ordered the culprits to be dragged by wild horses
349 10| exquisitely framed by luxuriant curls falling from her forehead
350 7 | her eyes, and cried, 'O cursed executioners! You are killing
351 3 | it to all his Madonnas, curtained a lovely forehead, and fell
352 3 | disposition. ~To make sure of her custody, Francesco kept her shut
353 7 | attendance; there, after cutting off her hair, he made her
354 1 | Angelo, Raffaelle, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, Titian,
355 3 | unnatural and inflexible gaoler daily brought her some food. Up
356 3 | among all these women, she dared not leave her bed to mix
357 3 | suddenly opened, and from the darkness of her own room she beheld
358 7 | again caused water to be dashed in her face; she returned
359 4 | The first refusal did not daunt him; he returned to the
360 7 | and cried, 'My God! I am dead! You are killing me! My
361 6 | was warned, the charcoal dealer who supplied his house with
362 1 | 1492, after the lingering death-agony of Innocent VIII, during
363 9 | supposing that his object was to decapitate him, cried loudly, "He is
364 9 | the knife fell, and the decapitated head, falling on the platform
365 10| have already disavowed this declaration, I repeat, at the moment
366 10| the church of San Giovanni Decollato; finally, about nine in
367 2 | physician's door was found decorated with garlands of flowers,
368 2 | near the Tiber, a chapel dedicated to St. Thomas, he remarked
369 5 | the matter was therefore deferred till the next day, the 9th. ~
370 7 | him in so merciless and degrading a fashion?" ~At length,
371 6 | It was divided into three degrees of intensity--the slight,
372 3 | elbow, and listening to a delightful harmony, the chamber door
373 4 | Francesco the Abbe Guerra should demand the hand of Beatrice from
374 6 | the greatest assurance, demanding to be the first to be confronted
375 3 | the slaw persistence of a demon. To these sights, calculated
376 4 | his part in it without any demur. ~As for Olympio, he hated
377 6 | Marzio; but they obstinately denied both any complicity in the
378 7 | signatures, she persisted in denying everything, saying, 'Haul
379 5 | fortune. ~The two sbirri departed, and the imprisoned conspirators
380 5 | evidence of the laundress, who deposed that Beatrice had given
381 6 | confessed everything. His deposition was sent to Rome, whither
382 3 | she had been, uneducated, deprived of all society, even that
383 10| this tragedy than can be derived from a narrative, pay a
384 9 | side. ~Then the executioner descended, entered tie chapel, and
385 8 | extinguish the flame in its descent. ~ ~ ~
386 10| sanguinary history; they are thus described by the eye-witness of the
387 6 | readers, we give a detailed description of it, adding an extract
388 2 | when instructing him to design a family vault, "That is
389 3 | passions, he added heresies designed to warp her mind; he told
390 8 | recovered her speech, uttering despairing cries. Lucrezia heard the
391 1 | anticorum." His first act was to despatch a papal nuncio, Francesco
392 5 | suspicions of violence, despatched a royal commissioner to
393 10| since it was painted has destroyed the original fair complexion.
394 6 | to our readers, we give a detailed description of it, adding
395 2 | pushed reform to the minutest details. For instance, of the hundred
396 5 | though he was, he never detected it, and having swallowed
397 6 | charcoal!" Then, whilst all the detectives were hunting high and low
398 6 | ever smitten by her beauty, determined, since he could not live
399 2 | marvellous facilities for the development of a reputation such as
400 6 | terrible inventions ever devised by the most ingenious of
401 9 | holy crucifix with great devotion. He was completely covered
402 4 | and hopeless love which devours the soul. When he conceived
403 5 | Signora Lucrezia, a very devout person, having noticed this
404 9 | the platform, where she devoutly kissed the stigmata; then
405 8 | and on his arrival she dictated its provisions with much
406 1 | Francesco Cherigato, to the Diet of Nuremberg, convened to
407 6 | most wary man, and very difficult to catch napping when warned
408 6 | affirmed with such calm dignity, that he, more than ever
409 10| to linger an the charming dimpled cheeks and perfect mouth
410 6 | their weight in gold the dirty old clothes which he wore,
411 6 | confession of the sbirro and the disappearance of Monsignor Guerra left
412 5 | so natural a manner as to disarm any suspicions. The only
413 10| although I have already disavowed this declaration, I repeat,
414 3 | wife to kill her if she disclosed to his daughter by a single
415 1 | of Nuremberg, convened to discuss the reforms of Luther, with
416 5 | with pity." ~Then Beatrice disdainfully raised her head, and in
417 5 | body was so scratched and disfigured that no one noticed the
418 3 | alleging that their father dishonoured the family name, and praying
419 7 | by the wrists, her arms disjointed, and covered with blood,
420 7 | untied; a barber reduced the dislocation of her arms in the usual
421 2 | were too stringent to be disobeyed. ~ ~ ~
422 3 | her natural character to display itself, she was lively,
423 6 | assassin. Beatrice, above all, displayed the greatest assurance,
424 4 | happened that Francesco, being dissatisfied with Olympio, complained
425 2 | stopping from Rome to Naples, a distance of forty-one leagues, passing
426 9 | veiled to the waist, with the distinction that Lucrezia, as a widow,
427 8 | thousand crowns, should be distributed in marriage portions to
428 4 | Olympio, conversant with the district and its inhabitants, should
429 1 | Ferrara, from whom a second divorce separated her; finally,
430 7 | minutest search among the papal documents, no trace of it could be
431 5 | On his arrival all the domestics in the castle were placed
432 2 | which this reckless Italian Don Juan seemed bent on acquiring.
433 4 | fresh crime. ~Henceforth the doom of Francesco was irrevocably
434 5 | party to the committal of a double sin; the matter was therefore
435 6 | persisted in his denial, it was doubled. This second degree, the
436 6 | attached to the feet, thus doubling the torture. This last form
437 8 | summed it up, he sent a draft of his opinion to the advocates,
438 5 | themselves alone, the women drew the nails out of the wounds,
439 2 | although the upper eyelids drooped somewhat; his nose was long,
440 6 | hoisted, into the air, and dropped again, either slowly or
441 6 | him with the windlass and dropping him to within a foot or
442 10| which was so besmeared with dust and blood that much time
443 1 | the Flemish type a regular Dutchman, and could not speak a word
444 7 | himself with a strong sense of duty, replied respectfully but
445 8 | litanies, and prayers far the dying. ~At eight o'clock they
446 1 | The jest prospered in the ears of those who heard it; all
447 8 | large flower-pot full of earth, which fell into the street
448 8 | legacies. Having settled their earthly affairs, they joined in
449 3 | her ruin was comparatively easy to compass; yet Francesco,
450 2 | Gregory had his reward for his easygoing indulgence; he was spared
451 4 | that time, consequently ecclesiastics were not precluded from
452 5 | Francesco, stepping over the edge of the 386 terrace in the
453 4 | these attractions a highly educated mind, natural eloquence
454 5 | assassination would have been effected the day before had it not
455 1 | Borgia had under his control eighteen Spanish cardinals who owed
456 3 | her head supported on her elbow, and listening to a delightful
457 1 | than the rest, proposed to elect, instead of either Medici
458 1 | Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, under the name of
459 2 | they had done before, and electing a third competitor; they
460 2 | ten thousand against the election of Giulio di Medici. At
461 6 | pendulum of a clock, or by elevating him with the windlass and
462 7 | We then raised her to the elevation of four feet, and began
463 8 | who nevertheless failed to elicit a single gleam of hope,
464 7 | for three days. ~The most eloquent and skilful advocates in
465 | elsewhere
466 3 | the elder, contriving to elude the close supervision under
467 6 | reached Naples, where he embarked. What ultimately became
468 1 | their epoch, and that some embody its good qualities and others
469 9 | with a magnificent cloak embroidered with gold, for the neck
470 6 | cardinal, a prince, or an eminent and learned man. ~ ~ ~
471 6 | severity and insensibility to emotion were undisputed. ~This latter
472 7 | preparing pleadings for so emotional a case, and on the day fixed
473 3 | relieved him from two other encumbrances: his sons Rocco and Cristoforo
474 2 | thousand crowns a year. He endeavoured by every possible means
475 4 | love and vengeance; she endured all, but pardoned nothing. ~
476 2 | when his eye perceived an enemy; at this moment his features
477 3 | capital sentence, should be enforced in his case. The pope pronounced
478 7 | ground, and when there we enjoined her to tell the truth; but
479 3 | thing Lucrezia did was to enlighten Beatrice an the infamy of
480 6 | in reaching France, and enlisted in a Swiss regiment in the
481 8 | great satisfaction, and entertained hopes that the lives of
482 1 | College; these cardinals were entirely his creatures, and he could
483 6 | claims more than he is justly entitled to. Farinacci states that,
484 1 | third chapel to the left, an Entombment by Fiammingo; having examined
485 4 | at first she desired to entrust to other hands. ~ ~ ~
486 5 | poisoned by remorse, but ere long retribution pursued
487 10| the other the body rose erect, as if about to step backwards;
488 5 | Nothing prevented them from escaping to Venice or Florence; but
489 6 | company of merchants under escort, joined them, and reached
490 1 | assassinated; the third, Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, from whom
491 4 | but needy prince, had much esteem for Francesco, whose purse
492 9 | loosing this soul unto life eternal!" She then arose, proceeded
493 2 | every possible means to evade this decree, but the pope'
494 1 | had just passed when the events which we are about to relate
495 3 | sympathetic, but at the same time evinced a firm and decided disposition. ~
496 1 | Entombment by Fiammingo; having examined these two masterpieces at
497 4 | influences: it could attain excellence, and descend to guilt. She
498 7 | advocates, who then retired, excepting d'Altieri, who knelt before
499 3 | revels of Lucrezia, and the excesses of Tiberius at Capri. After
500 6 | terror these preliminaries excited, a pang of physical pain
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