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501 1 | to break them to pieces, exclaiming, "Suet idola anticorum."
502 9 | although one was to be executed last, and the other was
503 7 | eyes, and cried, 'O cursed executioners! You are killing me! You
504 2 | passed. An adept in all manly exercises and especially in horsemanship,
505 8 | paroxysm, after which the exhaustion of her body enabled her
506 10| backwards; the executioner exhibited the head, and disposed of
507 8 | herself to go to the chapel, exhorting Beatrice to resignation;
508 5 | commissioner to Petrella to exhume the body and make minute
509 4 | obstinate lover that a reason existed why Beatrice could be neither
510 10| portraits of them are in existence, we are obliged to gather
511 7 | I hope that they will be exonerated in the eyes of your Holiness;
512 3 | child no longer; her beauty expanded like a flower; and Francesco,
513 1 | the Vatican, allow him to expatiate, and search at the foot
514 9 | Beatrice herself, who, not expecting this explosion, raised herself
515 2 | hit upon a very ingenious expedient. He wanted only five votes;
516 8 | of much acumen and great experience in criminal cases. Then,
517 1 | were skilful politicians, experienced courtiers, and moreover
518 9 | who, not expecting this explosion, raised herself almost upright;
519 4 | mind, natural eloquence expressed by a musical and penetrating
520 2 | his eyes were large and expressive, although the upper eyelids
521 9 | the moment Beatrice was extended on the scaffold a signal
522 8 | close to the torch as to extinguish the flame in its descent. ~ ~ ~
523 2 | pleasant smile, except when his eye perceived an enemy; at this
524 10| are thus described by the eye-witness of the closing scene-- ~
525 2 | expressive, although the upper eyelids drooped somewhat; his nose
526 2 | thousand piastres, about f32,000 of our money. Francesco
527 2 | reign offered marvellous facilities for the development of a
528 7 | questioned her as to the facts and circumstances of the
529 5 | rolled. The young girl then, faithful to her word, handed the
530 5 | his having accidentally fallen off the terrace on his way
531 6 | all his statements to be false, and asked forgiveness from
532 10| accused you, I have done so falsely, and although I have already
533 2 | the reign of Clement VIII, famed for his justice. The three
534 4 | to one of the most noble families in Rome, of a bold, resolute,
535 10| recent tears; a perfectly farmed nose surmounts an infantile
536 3 | that Clement VIII had on a farmer occasion driven Giacomo,
537 3 | that he would not spend a farthing on funeral services. They
538 8 | two to be made in nun's fashion--that is to say, gathered
539 6 | severe torture, consisted in fastening the sufferer, stripped naked,
540 3 | Church were the issue of fathers and daughters, and in the
541 8 | afforded to the public by these favours, another tragical event
542 9 | impetuous disposition, and fearing lest she might be led into
543 10| of September; being the Feast of the Holy Cross, the brotherhood
544 2 | no pains to conceal his feelings towards them: on one occasion,
545 6 | to put out of the way a fellow-assassin named Olympio, who knew
546 5 | these words, the sbirri felt ashamed of their irresolution,
547 9 | was then resumed. ~The two female prisoners followed the last
548 1 | Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, from whom a second divorce
549 5 | Towards midnight, Beatrice fetched them out of their hiding-place,
550 3 | invited her to join the fete. Hardly knowing what she
551 1 | the left, an Entombment by Fiammingo; having examined these two
552 2 | was so terrified by the fiendish laugh which accompanied
553 2 | the evil passions of his fiery and passionate temperament.
554 1 | the absence of Charles the Fifth. The jest prospered in the
555 9 | row of penitents in single file, veiled to the waist, with
556 8 | condemned to death. ~The final sentence was immediately
557 4 | at length he succeeded in finding her. His last hope was her
558 7 | before our prayer was half finished she fainted away; or pretended
559 9 | scaffold a signal gun should be fired from the castle of Sant'
560 7 | replied respectfully but firmly-- ~"Most Holy Father, we
561 8 | heard the tidings with more firmness, and proceeded to dress
562 9 | on his appearance by the fiscal of Rome-- ~"Signor Bernardo
563 8 | torch as to extinguish the flame in its descent. ~ ~ ~
564 9 | unmarried girl, wore a silk flat cap to match her corsage,
565 8 | sole heir. The murderer fled and escaped. ~Clement VIII
566 1 | perfect specimen of the Flemish type a regular Dutchman,
567 5 | which lay writhing on the floor where it had rolled. The
568 5 | from escaping to Venice or Florence; but they remained quietly
569 8 | Confraternity of Mercy, a Florentine order, arrived at the prison
570 3 | her beauty expanded like a flower; and Francesco, a stranger
571 8 | accidentally threw down a large flower-pot full of earth, which fell
572 3 | lovely forehead, and fell in flowing locks over her shoulders.
573 3 | gaoler daily brought her some food. Up to the age of thirteen,
574 6 | Marsilius, was worked by forcing the accused into an angular
575 8 | their lives would not be forfeited. ~Amidst the general feeling
576 9 | to their death, and never forget to pray for those with whom
577 6 | statements to be false, and asked forgiveness from God and from Beatrice;
578 9 | Bernardo; whose pardon being formally communicated to him, he
579 9 | touch of a spring. ~In this formation the procession wended its
580 | formerly
581 4 | castellan of Rocco Petrella, a fortified stronghold in the kingdom
582 2 | we are speaking a man of forty-four or forty-five years of age,
583 2 | to Naples, a distance of forty-one leagues, passing through
584 3 | under which she was kept, forwarded to the pope a petition,
585 1 | you will find the Pauline fountain. Having passed this monument,
586 10| Beatrice herself: he might be fourteen or fifteen years of age. ~
587 1 | separated her; finally, the fourth, Alfonso of Aragon, who
588 1 | Titian, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo, Giulio Romano,
589 10| her face is exquisitely framed by luxuriant curls falling
590 4 | never have happened, had not Frances one night returned into
591 1 | Roman. These children were: ~Francis, Duke of Gandia; ~Caesar,
592 10| the Stigmata and all the Franciscan monks in Rome; there, agreeably
593 2 | piastres, or about one million francs. It should be explained
594 3 | Francesco driven nearly frantic with rage when he saw this
595 2 | consequently repaired to Frascati, where the pope was building
596 2 | throughout the Papal States as a free-handed person, nobody tried to
597 1 | was carried away by the French in 1809, and restored to
598 8 | horror-stricken at the increasing frequency of this crime of parricide:
599 6 | of whistles. ~The fire, frequently employed before the invention
600 1 | its canals the shade and freshness so rare in the capital of
601 4 | pay them a visit with a friend of his, an abbe named Guerra:
602 9 | rosettes and cherry-coloured fringe. The arms of both were untrammelled,
603 3 | Raffaelle, moved to and fro in these apartments, seeming
604 9 | shoulders and covered her violet frock; white slippers with high
605 8 | changed the papal mind and frustrated all his humane intentions.
606 6 | supplied his house with fuel was at hand, he sent for
607 5 | by signs that they would fulfil their compact, they entered
608 9 | unable, on account of the fullness of her bust, to lay her
609 3 | and married her to Carlo Gabrielli, of a noble family of Gubbio.
610 1 | were: ~Francis, Duke of Gandia; ~Caesar, bishop and cardinal,
611 3 | unnatural and inflexible gaoler daily brought her some food.
612 5 | to throw it down into a garden which had been allowed to
613 2 | was found decorated with garlands of flowers, bearing this
614 10| existence, we are obliged to gather an idea of their appearance
615 6 | the judge. The suspension generally lasted during the recital
616 2 | Clement VII. The same day, he generously paid the five hundred thousand
617 2 | through the forest of San Germano and the Pontine marshes
618 2 | tutors' hands, in order to get rid of them he sent them
619 8 | unprepared, on a scaffold! on a gibbet! My God! my God!" This fit
620 1 | nevertheless were mortal; ~Giofre, Count of Squillace, of
621 8 | dresses, with cords for girdles, were brought them; they
622 10| scaffold his long hair and girlish face led people to suppose
623 8 | on the dresses provided, girt themselves with the cords;
624 1 | passing from art into manners, gives to this epoch a strange
625 1 | readers to cast a rapid glance over the period which had
626 3 | he was well rid of such good-for-nothing children, but that he should
627 8 | a free pardon should be granted to Bernardo, a poor lad
628 3 | accordingly borne to the paupers' graves which he had caused to be
629 1 | word; Orate; under this gravestone is buried Beatrice Cenci,
630 3 | his rage fell with all the greater intensity on his two unhappy
631 2 | his hair was streaked with grey, his eyes were large and
632 7 | her head as if to cast off grief-- ~"Do you then wish to die?
633 10| the wounds caused by the grip of red-hot pincers; in this
634 2 | instance, of the hundred grooms maintained by Leo X, he
635 9 | axe, which, guided by two grooves, fell with its whole weight
636 5 | appeared to be adequate grounds for doing so. On his arrival
637 10| A gruesome sight was then afforded:
638 6 | Cenci palace under a strong guard, but the proofs against
639 3 | Gabrielli, of a noble family of Gubbio. Francesco driven nearly
640 6 | been employed by Monsignor Guerra--to put out of the way a
641 1 | Giulio Romano, Ariosto, Guicciardini, and Macchiavelli. ~Giulio
642 9 | a ponderous axe, which, guided by two grooves, fell with
643 8 | fifteen years of age, who, guiltless of any participation in
644 4 | two lovers; an impassable gulf separated them. They parted
645 9 | on the scaffold a signal gun should be fired from the
646 6 | Lucrezia Petroni's full habit of body rendered her unable
647 2 | lips were thin, and wore habitually a pleasant smile, except
648 10| in the sight of all, he hacked his body into four quarters.
649 10| pincers; in this state, and half-naked, he rose to his feet, and
650 5 | other struck it with the hammer, and drove it into his head.
651 9 | to him, he took off his handcuffs, and placed him alongside
652 5 | then, faithful to her word, handed the sbirri a large purse
653 9 | to carry a crucifix and a handkerchief. ~During the night a lofty
654 2 | they found their father harsher and more unkind than ever. ~
655 3 | her with the most extreme harshness and severity; but now, to
656 7 | as he had previously been hasty, and heard the argument
657 7 | denying everything, saying, 'Haul me about and do what you
658 10| a lovely girl, wearing a headdress composed of a turban with
659 5 | nerveless, shaking their heads without speaking, they at
660 4 | seized and carried off. A heavy ransom was to be demanded,
661 2 | and the Pontine marshes heedless of brigands, although he
662 9 | white slippers with high heels, ornamented with gold rosettes
663 3 | stranger to no crime, however heinous, had marked her for his
664 8 | promise to make Paolo his sole heir. The murderer fled and escaped. ~
665 4 | Council of Trent had not been held at that time, consequently
666 8 | dress in these clothes, and help one another at our toilet
667 6 | Swiss regiment in the pay of Henry IV. ~The confession of the
668 3 | stimulate her passions, he added heresies designed to warp her mind;
669 5 | fetched them out of their hiding-place, and took them to her father'
670 9 | widow, wore a black veil and high-heeled slippers of the same hue,
671 7 | say. ~"We then raised her higher still, and recited a Miserere,
672 1 | descend towards the Janiculum Hill by a charming road, in the
673 2 | with the point, never the hilt. In most cases, being well
674 8 | governor of Rome, and said to him-- ~"Monsignor, we place in
675 5 | cried Beatrice; "and what hinders you?" ~"It is a cowardly
676 10| compile this sanguinary history; they are thus described
677 2 | of the rival candidates, hit upon a very ingenious expedient.
678 7 | worked by two men." ~"Before hoisting her from the ground we again
679 7 | kill the child, so this holds good in the converse. We
680 9 | her corsage, with a plush hood, which fell over her shoulders
681 4 | but with that silent and hopeless love which devours the soul.
682 8 | satisfaction, and entertained hopes that the lives of the convicted
683 6 | make the nature of this horrid torture plain to our readers,
684 7 | they were. ~The pope was so horrified on reading the particulars
685 9 | the air, to the general horror; the executioner then seized
686 8 | escaped. ~Clement VIII was horror-stricken at the increasing frequency
687 2 | sword and dagger. When his horse fell from fatigue, he bought
688 8 | whole of the night either on horseback or in their carriages, making
689 2 | exercises and especially in horsemanship, he sometimes used to ride
690 4 | Henceforth there was no human hope for the two lovers;
691 8 | mind and frustrated all his humane intentions. This was the
692 8 | Most Holy Father, I humbly ask pardon for appearing
693 3 | compelled her to undergo this humiliation. Beatrice was too far off
694 8 | moment she became an angel of humility and an example of resignation. ~
695 6 | all the detectives were hunting high and low for him, he
696 1 | married four times: her first husband was Giovanni Sforza, lord
697 1 | level, is built, on the identical place where St. Peter was
698 1 | mortuary slab, which you will identify by a cross and the single
699 1 | pieces, exclaiming, "Suet idola anticorum." His first act
700 4 | courageous character, and idolised by all the Roman ladies
701 3 | odious, and drove them with ignominy from his presence. As for
702 3 | of apartments brilliantly illuminated, and sensuous with perfumes;
703 10| Poor Bernardo was the image of his sister, so nearly
704 2 | enabled him to purchase immunity, abandoned himself to all
705 5 | as soon as the news was imparted to them, came out from their
706 4 | hope for the two lovers; an impassable gulf separated them. They
707 8 | moment of our suffering is impending; I think we had better dress
708 10| expression at the same time imperious and voluptuous indicate
709 9 | for the pope, knowing her impetuous disposition, and fearing
710 2 | from motives of interest. Impious, sacrilegious, and atheistical,
711 7 | Holy Father on their knees, imploring him to reconsider his decree,
712 1 | whom she left owing to his impotence; the second, Alfonso, Duke
713 1 | tragical story cannot but impress you profoundly. ~She was
714 10| desire to form a more vivid impression of the principal actors
715 3 | Beatrice yet perceived the impropriety of yielding to her father'
716 3 | on this occasion did not improve their father's disposition
717 4 | sum; but, under pretext of inability to do so, they were to allow
718 1 | to them as the diabolical incarnation of his time. ~On the 11th
719 2 | age, about five feet four inches in height, symmetrically
720 4 | and possibly the tragical incident might never have happened,
721 3 | presence, thought they were included in the same proscription,
722 9 | astonishment of everybody, including Beatrice herself, who, not
723 2 | of their father's immense income. They consequently repaired
724 6 | readiness for its appliance. To increase the terror these preliminaries
725 3 | orgy. ~Beatrice there saw incredible and infamous things.... ~
726 | indeed
727 1 | Conclave was prolonged almost indefinitely, to the great fatigue of
728 3 | towards them, but as their independent pensions enabled them to
729 10| imperious and voluptuous indicate this character to the life;
730 10| Lucrezia Petrani the small head indicates a person below the middle
731 7 | there then to be found," he indignantly cried, "among the Roman
732 1 | good taste, such as those indulged in by Alcibiades and sung
733 2 | reward for his easygoing indulgence; he was spared to rejoice
734 3 | enlighten Beatrice an the infamy of the life they were leading;
735 10| farmed nose surmounts an infantile mouth; unfortunately, the
736 5 | without speaking, they at once inferred that nothing had been done. ~"
737 6 | this opportunely. A man of infinite resource, he lost not a
738 3 | There, her unnatural and inflexible gaoler daily brought her
739 8 | of her father. Under the influence of these considerations
740 4 | to the best and the worst influences: it could attain excellence,
741 5 | Guerra received private information that, shortly before the
742 8 | near at hand, they were informed that their last moment was
743 4 | with the district and its inhabitants, should collect a party
744 1 | and the pope wished to inherit his wealth, as he already
745 2 | Cenci, who was his only son, inherited this fortune. ~His youth
746 2 | was, that Francesco Cenci, inheriting vicious instincts and master
747 9 | and still more lamed and injured. ~The machine being now
748 5 | the body and make minute inquiries, if there appeared to be
749 2 | of flowers, bearing this inscription: "To the liberator of his
750 6 | judge, whose severity and insensibility to emotion were undisputed. ~
751 4 | second time and yet a third, insisting upon the suitableness of
752 8 | and as this unhappy family inspired a constantly increasing
753 2 | the minutest details. For instance, of the hundred grooms maintained
754 2 | Cenci, inheriting vicious instincts and master of an immense
755 2 | remarked to the architect, when instructing him to design a family vault, "
756 9 | die." ~At this unexpected intelligence, a loud murmur of joy spread
757 5 | towards a small rampart, intending to throw it down into a
758 3 | fell with all the greater intensity on his two unhappy daughters.
759 6 | divided into three degrees of intensity--the slight, the severe,
760 8 | frustrated all his humane intentions. This was the atrocious
761 8 | consequences. The one who interested himself most in the case
762 8 | last clause desired her interment in the church of San Pietro
763 7 | from the ground we again interrogated her touching the aforesaid
764 6 | latter reopened the whole interrogatory, and as Beatrice up to that
765 7 | the audience, passionately interrupted him. ~"Are there then to
766 1 | for a moment, and in this interval a careless butler served
767 4 | three days he sought an interview with Beatrice in vain; at
768 3 | after their death, far he intimated to the priest that he would
769 3 | situation soon became so intolerable, that the elder, contriving
770 8 | bed, and staggering as if intoxicated, recovered her speech, uttering
771 2 | again rival candidates. Intrigues recommenced, and the Conclave
772 6 | threat of severe torture, introduction into the torture chamber,
773 6 | The sleepless torture, invented by Marsilius, was worked
774 6 | frequently employed before the invention of the sleepless torture,
775 6 | one of the most terrible inventions ever devised by the most
776 6 | satisfactory result for the inventor. ~Lastly comes the torture
777 8 | crime, yet found himself involved in its consequences. The
778 3 | resisted a long time: an inward voice told her that this
779 6 | not a moment in timid or irresolute plans, but as it happened
780 5 | sbirri felt ashamed of their irresolution, and, indicating by signs
781 4 | the doom of Francesco was irrevocably pronounced. ~As we have
782 2 | whenever moved or even slightly irritated, he was seized with a fit
783 6 | Warrants were immediately issued for the arrest of Giacomo,
784 6 | regiment in the pay of Henry IV. ~The confession of the
785 2 | Roman type, except for the ivory pallor of her complexion.
786 1 | will descend towards the Janiculum Hill by a charming road,
787 6 | either slowly or with a jerk, as ordered by the judge.
788 7 | proceed to the torture by jerks. ~"He accordingly hoisted
789 1 | of Charles the Fifth. The jest prospered in the ears of
790 7 | during which, instead of joining in the prayer, she shook
791 3 | Francesco was obliged to make a journey, and leave the women alone
792 8 | with a tranquil and almost joyful countenance. "Mother," said
793 3 | itself, she was lively, joyous, and sympathetic, but at
794 2 | this reckless Italian Don Juan seemed bent on acquiring.
795 6 | he claims more than he is justly entitled to. Farinacci states
796 3 | pensions enabled them to keep out of his way, his rage
797 3 | apartment of his palace, the key of which he kept in his
798 8 | of the poor." ~The pope kindly raised him, saying: ~"Go;
799 9 | gave her the crucifix to kiss, and led her to the step
800 9 | platform, where she devoutly kissed the stigmata; then leaving
801 10| executioner then made him kneel down, bound his legs to
802 9 | near the block, Giacomo kneeling on the other side. ~Then
803 7 | excepting d'Altieri, who knelt before him, saying-- ~ ~ ~
804 9 | touched. the spring, the knife fell, and the decapitated
805 1 | prelates of the Church; for we know that many abominable things
806 6 | complicity in the crime and any knowledge of the assassin. Beatrice,
807 5 | mantle, trimmed with gold lace, telling him to wear it
808 3 | stepmother, whom she had lacked for in vain the previous
809 6 | face, bought two asses, laden with charcoal, and limped
810 2 | their wretched plight, the lads were obliged to leave Salamanca,
811 6 | young and beautiful Roman lady, took it out of his hands
812 5 | the castle, where they had lain concealed all night and
813 5 | its bloody condition by a lame explanation, which the laundress
814 9 | accident, and still more lamed and injured. ~The machine
815 5 | their rooms, weeping and lamenting in so natural a manner as
816 4 | his wife and children, to languish in poverty. Guerra's house
817 10| composed of a turban with a lappet. The hair is of a rich fair
818 4 | fixed by the bandits to lapse, when Francesco was to be
819 6 | result for the inventor. ~Lastly comes the torture of the
820 6 | unfortunately arrived at Naples too late, and found his bird already
821 | later
822 6 | all, and known in other Latin countries as the strappado. ~
823 2 | terrified by the fiendish laugh which accompanied these
824 2 | great need of money. ~The lawless profligacy of Francesco
825 7 | parents, and among Roman lawyers men capable of speaking
826 2 | a distance of forty-one leagues, passing through the forest
827 6 | prince, or an eminent and learned man. ~ ~ ~
828 8 | charities, with other pious legacies. Having settled their earthly
829 7 | in which the father may legally kill the child, so this
830 10| him kneel down, bound his legs to one of the beams erected
831 1 | these two masterpieces at leisure, he will take you to each
832 6 | that the judge had been too lenient in applying the torture
833 1 | Pope Calixtus III, Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia, before being created
834 1 | Michael Angelo, Raffaelle, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, Titian,
835 9 | disposition, and fearing lest she might be led into the
836 | let
837 5 | courtyard; she gave them letters which she had written to
838 1 | sunk a few feet below the level, is built, on the identical
839 7 | the other end by a four lever windlass, worked by two
840 2 | succeeded in procuring his liberation by the payment of two hundred
841 2 | this inscription: "To the liberator of his country." ~Giulio
842 10| licence of the pope, set at liberty the unhappy Bernardo Cenci,
843 10| San Marcello, by special licence of the pope, set at liberty
844 9 | to bestride the plank and lie prone upon it; which she
845 10| in Montorio, with fifty lighted torches, and followed by
846 6 | bone and dislocated the limbs, weights were attached to
847 6 | laden with charcoal, and limped up and down the streets
848 10| a smile still seems to linger an the charming dimpled
849 1 | this monument, and having lingered a moment on the terrace
850 1 | August, 1492, after the lingering death-agony of Innocent
851 2 | his nose was long, his lips were thin, and wore habitually
852 3 | supported on her elbow, and listening to a delightful harmony,
853 8 | prayer, reciting psalms, litanies, and prayers far the dying. ~
854 3 | display itself, she was lively, joyous, and sympathetic,
855 3 | forehead, and fell in flowing locks over her shoulders. Her
856 9 | handkerchief. ~During the night a lofty scaffold had been erected
857 9 | body unto corruption, and loosing this soul unto life eternal!"
858 1 | husband was Giovanni Sforza, lord of Pesaro, whom she left
859 4 | latter had caused him to lose the post of castellan of
860 4 | union. At length Francesco, losing patience, told this obstinate
861 10| mouth; unfortunately, the loss of tone in the picture since
862 9 | to decapitate him, cried loudly, "He is pardoned!" The executioner
863 4 | often seen Beatrice, and loved her, but with that silent
864 4 | patience, told this obstinate lover that a reason existed why
865 4 | no human hope for the two lovers; an impassable gulf separated
866 6 | detectives were hunting high and low for him, he got out of the
867 4 | went off in quest of better luck elsewhere. ~Francesco had
868 6 | the monsignor's secrets. ~Luckily for himself, Monsignor Guerra
869 5 | fear from justice, remained lurking about the castle; one day
870 2 | which Rome, conquered by the Lutheran soldiers of the Constable
871 10| is exquisitely framed by luxuriant curls falling from her forehead
872 9 | executioner, which were lying ready in a chafing-dish
873 1 | Ariosto, Guicciardini, and Macchiavelli. ~Giulio di Medici and Pompeo
874 9 | lamed and injured. ~The machine being now rearranged and
875 5 | whom he worshipped as a Madonna; which observing, the girl
876 3 | appropriated it to all his Madonnas, curtained a lovely forehead,
877 6 | torture, which consisted mainly in the apprehensions it
878 2 | instance, of the hundred grooms maintained by Leo X, he retained only
879 1 | neither of them could obtain a majority, and the Conclave was prolonged
880 2 | passed. An adept in all manly exercises and especially
881 5 | gave him a handsome scarlet mantle, trimmed with gold lace,
882 10| their appearance from the manuscript which has enabled us to
883 6 | taken from the Vatican manuscripts. ~Of the various forms of
884 9 | the others had done. The march to the scaffold was then
885 8 | atrocious murder of the Marchese di Santa Croce, a man seventy
886 9 | prison of Corte Savella, marching to the sound of funeral
887 3 | crime, however heinous, had marked her for his own. ~Brought
888 2 | Germano and the Pontine marshes heedless of brigands, although
889 1 | tones a copy of Guido's Martyrdom of St. Peter on the high
890 2 | XIII. This reign offered marvellous facilities for the development
891 9 | immediately untied the small mask which covered the youth'
892 8 | clock they confessed, heard mass, and received the sacraments;
893 3 | former by Paolo Corso di Massa, in the streets of Rome.
894 2 | spared to rejoice over the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. ~Francesco
895 1 | probability admired this masterpiece in the Vatican, allow him
896 9 | wore a silk flat cap to match her corsage, with a plush
897 10| attributes are those of a Roman matron in her pride; her high complexion,
898 | meanwhile
899 1 | father the pope, and his measures were so carefully taken
900 3 | the latter by a bungling medical practitioner whose name
901 4 | s house was selected to meet in and concert matters. ~
902 8 | the governor convened a meeting of all the criminal judges
903 1 | Vasari; then, pointing out in melancholy tones a copy of Guido's
904 6 | confronted with Marzio; whose mendacity she affirmed with such calm
905 6 | the city, met a company of merchants under escort, joined them,
906 7 | when they slew him in so merciless and degrading a fashion?" ~
907 1 | Adrien became pope by a mere accident. ~He was a perfect
908 1 | of real and almost equal merit, neither of them could obtain
909 1 | months, and nineteen days, Michael Angelo, Raffaelle, Leonardo
910 5 | Lucrezia Petroni. Towards midnight, Beatrice fetched them out
911 6 | sleepless, and the rope. ~The mildest, the torture of the whistle,
912 | million
913 3 | happiness: these were the ministers to the pleasures of Francesco,
914 5 | exhume the body and make minute inquiries, if there appeared
915 9 | articulo mortis'. About five minutes thus passed, during which
916 8 | the street and narrowly missed one of the Confraternity
917 4 | replied: ~"Because she is my mistress." ~Monsignor Guerra turned
918 8 | considerations the pope mitigated the severity of their prison
919 3 | dared not leave her bed to mix with persons who were unknown
920 5 | supping with the old man, mixed some narcotic with his wine
921 1 | Sant' Angelo, Capua, and Modena. To effect this, Caesar
922 5 | her. As for the remaining moiety, it was to be paid when
923 10| chestnut hue; the dark eyes are moistened with recent tears; a perfectly
924 10| Stigmata and all the Franciscan monks in Rome; there, agreeably
925 1 | fountain. Having passed this monument, and having lingered a moment
926 5 | they had said, a ray of moonlight shone through the open window,
927 6 | Monsignor Guerra left no moral doubt of the guilt of the
928 2 | said of him that he had a morbid appetite for novelties in
929 | moreover
930 1 | absolutely. As he was in a moribund condition and could make
931 1 | which nevertheless were mortal; ~Giofre, Count of Squillace,
932 9 | absolution 'in articulo mortis'. About five minutes thus
933 1 | foot of the altar for a mortuary slab, which you will identify
934 6 | unflinchingly, and the judge Ulysses Moscati himself, famous though he
935 7 | she answered only by a motion of the head indicating that
936 2 | through fear, others from motives of interest. Impious, sacrilegious,
937 5 | immediately after the funeral, the mourners returned to Rome, hoping
938 9 | completely covered with a large mourning cloak, under which his bare
939 9 | seized it, showed it to the multitude, and wrapping it in black
940 8 | Paolo his sole heir. The murderer fled and escaped. ~Clement
941 1 | which two hundred and twenty murders were committed in the streets
942 9 | unexpected intelligence, a loud murmur of joy spread among the
943 3 | awakened by a concert of music which seemed to come from
944 4 | eloquence expressed by a musical and penetrating voice, and
945 | must
946 | myself
947 6 | very difficult to catch napping when warned in time. He
948 5 | the old man, mixed some narcotic with his wine so adroitly
949 10| than can be derived from a narrative, pay a visit to the Barberini
950 8 | fell into the street and narrowly missed one of the Confraternity
951 5 | September, the day of the Nativity of the Virgin; but Signora
952 4 | proposed crime would draw him nearer to Beatrice, he accepted
953 10| the third time, and it was necessary to revive him with stimulants
954 2 | this time were in great need of money. ~The lawless profligacy
955 4 | noble and magnificent but needy prince, had much esteem
956 1 | Julius II. To the Rome of Nero succeeded the Athens of
957 5 | sbirri reappear pale and nerveless, shaking their heads without
958 6 | or men of highly strung nerves. ~The second degree, or
959 7 | except Farinacci, who, nerving himself with a strong sense
960 2 | was seized with a fit of nervous trembling, which lasted
961 2 | worldly matters to amass a net revenue of a hundred and
962 2 | hoped by so doing to enjoy a new sensation. ~At the age of
963 5 | The ladies, as soon as the news was imparted to them, came
964 9 | foot of the scaffold, she nimbly ascended the ladder, and
965 | nine
966 1 | years, eight months, and nineteen days, Michael Angelo, Raffaelle,
967 7 | cried, "among the Roman nobility children capable of killing
968 3 | the door opened, and the nocturnal spectacle reappeared. This
969 8 | first request was for a notary to make her will. This was
970 1 | instructions which give a vivid notion of the manners of the time. ~"
971 2 | had a morbid appetite for novelties in crime, and that there
972 2 | happened, on the 18th of November, 1523, Giulio di Medici
973 8 | ordered two to be made in nun's fashion--that is to say,
974 1 | was to despatch a papal nuncio, Francesco Cherigato, to
975 8 | five hundred crowns to the nuns of the order of the Stigmata,
976 1 | Cherigato, to the Diet of Nuremberg, convened to discuss the
977 8 | single gleam of hope, so obdurate was His Holiness. At length
978 3 | if she proved gentle and obedient she would be rewarded by
979 3 | and obstinately refused to obey. ~The next night she threw
980 2 | five votes he wanted; no objection could be made, the cardinals
981 7 | The judges, perceiving the obstinacy of Beatrice, had ordered
982 4 | losing patience, told this obstinate lover that a reason existed
983 1 | merit, neither of them could obtain a majority, and the Conclave
984 9 | readily to perform this office, Bernardo came out, and
985 1 | qualities and others its bad ones, it may nevertheless interest
986 8 | he sent a draft of his opinion to the advocates, who read
987 6 | Monsignor Guerra heard of this opportunely. A man of infinite resource,
988 3 | could no longer make any opposition, he led her, covered with
989 1 | cross and the single word; Orate; under this gravestone is
990 3 | every night revelled in the orgies of Alexander, the wedding
991 3 | into the middle of this orgy. ~Beatrice there saw incredible
992 10| painted has destroyed the original fair complexion. The age
993 9 | slippers with high heels, ornamented with gold rosettes and cherry-coloured
994 2 | even talking about Cardinal Orsini, when Giulio di Medici,
995 3 | statement of all the blows and outrages they had suffered. But,
996 1 | eighteen Spanish cardinals who owed to him their places in the
997 2 | bought another; were the owner unwilling to sell he took
998 1 | pontificate Christianity assumed a pagan character, which, passing
999 6 | excited, a pang of physical pain was added by tightening
1000 2 | children, and was at no pains to conceal his feelings
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