Chapter

  1 1,3  |            has assumed the name of Alexander VI." ~The news of this nomination
  2 1,3  |            epigrams on the name of Alexander, which for the second time
  3 1,3  |        world victorious trod;~ But Alexander still extends his glory:~
  4 1,3  |        glory:~ Caesar was man, but Alexander God." ~As to the new pope,
  5 2,1  |           Accordingly we too, with Alexander VI, will cast a rapid glance
  6 2,3  |         hands. Now the election of Alexander had caused him great uneasiness,
  7 2,3  |          see that Ferdinand judged Alexander VI with his usual perspicacity;
  8 2,3  |        what manner of man was this Alexander VI, for undertaking and
  9 3,2  |                                  2~Alexander VI, however, though he had
 10 3,2  |         Having spoken these words, Alexander donned the pontifical robes,
 11 3,3  |              And with these words, Alexander VI rose up, laid his hands
 12 3,4  |           Caesar. Indeed, although Alexander VI had repudiated the abuses
 13 3,4  |           first to give the lie to Alexander's professions of principle
 14 3,4  |          So, at the end of a year, Alexander VI had reconquered that
 15 3,4  |        into the plots and plans of Alexander VI; the separation was therefore
 16 3,4  |           was now free to remarry. Alexander opened up two negotiations
 17 3,4  |           John Sforza, grandson of Alexander Sforza, brother of the great
 18 3,4  |     convenient for his purpose; so Alexander first cast an eye upon him,
 19 3,4  |          to the great annoyance of Alexander VI, who saw through this
 20 3,4  |        than a refusal. Accordingly Alexander and Ferdinand remained in
 21 3,4  |            turn of fortune was for Alexander. ~Italy, though tranquil,
 22 4,1  |           scales; so, betraying to Alexander the policy of Piero and
 23 4,1  |          other of the two leagues. Alexander VI, wounded by Ferdinand'
 24 4,2  |         Tarentum to the Pyrenees. ~Alexander VI was in the very centre
 25 4,2  |            John's antecedents; and Alexander, encouraged by the success
 26 4,2  |            and ambition. ~Suddenly Alexander beheld the old King Ferdinand
 27 4,2  |          mounted the papal throne, Alexander VI had made great strides,
 28 4,3  |            Naples for their king. ~Alexander VI replied that, as his
 29 4,4  |     Tarentum by Giorgia Bucciarda, Alexander VI's envoy, who was commissioned
 30 4,4  |          affair of the embassy; by Alexander VI it was rejected, because
 31 4,4  |        accrued to Virginio Orsini, Alexander's favourite, from his embassy
 32 4,4  |           of Piero's coldness, and Alexander had not even given him the
 33 4,4  |            o'clock in the morning, Alexander VI was freed from the first
 34 4,5  |            enterprise on which, as Alexander's enemy, delta Rovere rested
 35 5,3  |          was at this juncture that Alexander VI received his answer from
 36 5,3  |        bearing a private letter to Alexander VI, in which Bajazet offered
 37 5,3  |        Lord of all the Christians, Alexander VI, Roman pontiff and pope
 38 5,3  |            so long as D'jem lived, Alexander was drawing an income of
 39 5,3  |            discount. All the same, Alexander formed no definite plan,
 40 5,4  |            the house of Anjou; but Alexander in acting thus had a second
 41 5,4  |           The result was just what Alexander had foreseen: his envoy
 42 5,4  |          the alliance with Aragon. Alexander accordingly judged that
 43 5,4  |       expeditious fashion as this. Alexander accordingly warned Ferdinand
 44 5,4  |            on the horizon. At once Alexander and the Duke of Calabria
 45 5,5  |          of a convocation to prove Alexander's simony and proceed to
 46 5,6  |          king was not aware of it, Alexander was pleased to get credit
 47 5,7  |            kiss his feet. But this Alexander would not suffer; he took
 48 5,7  |     Vatican, when Charles VIII and Alexander VI were swearing a friendship
 49 5,8  |          departed two days before. Alexander, who knew of the flight
 50 5,8  |           at the farewell banquet, Alexander had tried on his guest the
 51 6,1  |        were commissioned to assure Alexander that the King of France
 52 6,1  |          not the neighbour to suit Alexander; so the latter would listen
 53 6,4  |         three years of his papacy, Alexander VI had seen five kings upon
 54 6,4  |            best thing possible for Alexander; for each new monarch became
 55 6,4  |           The consequence was that Alexander was the only gainer in power
 56 6,4  |            of the Church, but whom Alexander called the shackles of the
 57 6,4  |            Ferdinand II's captive. Alexander could not let this opportunity
 58 7,1  |            Matters went forward as Alexander had wished, and before the
 59 7,1  |    required and handed him over to Alexander on account; he, a rigid
 60 7,1  |     Spanish and Neapolitan troops. Alexander, as he could not utilise
 61 7,2  |          of cardinals was entirely Alexander's, there was no difficulty
 62 7,3  |            taken it as a gift from Alexander the night before his election
 63 7,4  |            his mother's house. But Alexander tried to deceive himself
 64 7,4  |              This blow had pierced Alexander's heart very deeply. As
 65 8,1  |         divorce would be effected. Alexander was too good a tactician
 66 8,1  |          Heaven's just punishment, Alexander and Caesar were beginning
 67 8,1  |           they sent ambassadors to Alexander to lodge a complaint against
 68 8,1  |           Aragon and the Holy See. Alexander understood the complaint,
 69 8,2  |           would be the business of Alexander, the accused could easily
 70 8,3  |          could no longer impute to Alexander the signature of the brief
 71 8,3  |            summoned one morning by Alexander, Caesar entered, and addressing
 72 8,4  |           desire to have children. Alexander, who was on the watch far
 73 8,4  |    entertained for her father. Now Alexander was willing to do all this
 74 9,1  |         from without was favouring Alexander's encroaching policy, when
 75 9,1  |            Thus had he stigmatised Alexander's new amour with the beautiful
 76 9,1  |         Medici. ~The first measure Alexander used against the growing
 77 9,1  | persecution always inspires. ~Then Alexander made overtures to Leonardo
 78 9,2  |          as this was terrifying to Alexander; so he resolved on fighting
 79 9,3  |           of their own free will. ~Alexander VI, as we may suppose, had
 80 9,3  |           the Florentine tribunal. Alexander, seeing that he would get
 81 9,3  |            gates of heaven. ~~Pope Alexander VI was thus set free from
 82 10,1 |            no difficult matter for Alexander, scrupulously examining
 83 10,2 |       directly after the return of Alexander to Rome, Giacomo Caetano
 84 10,2 |    ambition of that terrible trio, Alexander, Lucrezia, and Caesar. ~
 85 10,3 |          who produced this sum for Alexander, and settled down the very
 86 10,3 |          about being disinherited, Alexander issued a brief; whereby
 87 10,3 |         his force to Rome. ~It was Alexander's wish that his entry should
 88 11,1 |            him that is, money. But Alexander was not the man to be troubled
 89 11,1 |        them had been poisoned; but Alexander had other means at his disposal,
 90 11,1 |           their head. The sum that Alexander brought into the pontifical
 91 11,1 |          down with the debris. But Alexander was not to be found; and
 92 11,1 |          evidence of his own eyes. Alexander desired to render public
 93 11,1 |           Gian Borgia, and perhaps Alexander was drawn thither by some
 94 11,2 |            Since, however, neither Alexander nor Caesar had changed in
 95 11,2 |       policy far Alfonso to afford Alexander any sort of pretext for
 96 11,3 |           to please them by curing Alexander's son-in-law, the wounded
 97 11,4 |        pope, but also to convey to Alexander and Caesar the title of
 98 11,5 |         and exclaiming, "Long live Alexander! Long live Caesar! Long
 99 12,2 |         that time had been secret. Alexander, foreseeing the probable
100 12,2 |         had deceived him, and that Alexander had pronounced the sentence
101 12,3 |    interrupt. During this interval Alexander had been visiting the scenes
102 12,3 |           to the two duchies. ~But Alexander was dreaming of yet another
103 12,4 |       pieces of news were good for Alexander, but the one could not compare
104 12,4 |           cries of "Long live Pope Alexander VI! Long live the Duchess
105 12,4 |           meet her fourth husband, Alexander and the Duke of Valentinois
106 13,2 |          Duke of Valentinois, like Alexander's, were becoming too powerful,
107 13,3 |       always nevertheless the Pope Alexander VI and his Very Christian
108 13,5 |         belonging to him: on which Alexander ordered that from that very
109 14,1 |         right moment to share with Alexander the property of Cardinal
110 14,2 |                  2~Towards evening Alexander VI walked from the Vatican
111 14,2 |          which held the medallion, Alexander VI, motionless and livid,
112 14,3 |       Vatican before the report of Alexander's decease could spread about
113 14,3 |            that when the corpse of Alexander VI was about to enter the
114 14,3 |           upon the tomb: ~ "VENDIT ALEXANDER CLAVES, ALTARIA, CHRISTUM:~
115 14,3 |         POTEST"; ~that is, ~ "Pope Alexander sold the Christ, the altars,
116 15,1 |         effect produced at Rome by Alexander's death, one may imagine
117 15,1 |    Nicastro, who had received from Alexander the guardianship of the
118 Epi,2|            an Innocent VIII and an Alexander VI who are its shame, it