Chapter

  1 Pro,1|           the one was as culpable as Pope Innocent VIII in dishonouring
  2 Pro,2|          Roderigo Borgia was elected pope." ~ ~
  3 1,1  |            thousand bedchambers; for Pope Sixtus V, the sublime swineherd,
  4 1,1  |            he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III. ~All the same,
  5 1,1  |             in the act of electing a pope. ~Rome is the town of elections:
  6 1,1  |         Peter and Gregory XVI, every pope lasts about eight years,
  7 1,1  |          from the finger of the dead pope, to dress, shave and paint
  8 1,1  |              where the last deceased pope has to remain until his
  9 1,1  |          that the world still had no pope; for this was the smoke
 10 1,2  |           smile, "our father will be pope." ~"Oh, it will be a fine
 11 1,3  |             the speedy election of a pope: this procession, starting
 12 1,3  |              the election of the new pope. ~The hour of the Ave Maria
 13 1,3  |          they were waiting for their pope: a promise had been made
 14 1,3  |              other words, "We have a pope." ~At this moment the rain
 15 1,3  |             and to go and seek their pope themselves. At this noise
 16 1,3  |              singular situation of a pope with a mistress and five
 17 1,3  |    tranquillity of Rome that the new pope inherited the sword of St.
 18 1,3  |       Alexander God." ~As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed
 19 2,1  |       Francesco Cibo, the son of the pope. ~After this he had remained
 20 2,3  |           would certainly make a bad pope. To this he added that,
 21 2,3  |           was the concern of the new pope to secure all this: let
 22 3,1  |              a son, had been elected pope under the name of Calixtus
 23 3,1  |          schemes which beset the new pope at every step, struck Calixtus
 24 3,1  |         received the letter from the pope, there arrived at Valencia
 25 3,1  |            had made to Roderigo: the pope received him as a son, and
 26 3,1  |       Roderigo Borgia was proclaimed pope. ~We have seen by what means
 27 3,2  |       satisfied ambition, "Am I then pope? Am I then Christ's vicar?
 28 3,2  |      occupied by this reply, the new pope had already assumed the
 29 3,2  |             but went straight to the pope to kiss his feet; and as
 30 3,2  |            kiss his feet; and as the pope had been forewarned of his
 31 3,2  |              upon the papal throne a pope who was so worthy. At these
 32 3,2  |              seat to embrace him the pope assumed a grave and composed
 33 3,2  |            the path of favouritism a pope cannot slip without a fall,
 34 3,3  |         great an error is it for any pope to devote more care to the
 35 3,3  |           find out that we are truly pope, Father of the Church, not
 36 3,4  |          daughter, and Goffreda, the pope's third son; but as the
 37 3,4  |             threaten, saw in the new pope's election means not only
 38 4,2  |            he least expected it. The pope was too clever a politician
 39 4,2  |             the Holy See; and to the pope alone belonged the right
 40 4,2  |             donning the scarlet, the pope hunted up four false witnesses
 41 4,3  |              Church and King. As the pope had settled that the young
 42 4,3  |           was there prepared for the pope, and at his feet were cushions
 43 4,3  |    ceremonies in his journal: ~"'The pope made his entry into the
 44 4,3  |              were conducted into the pope's presence, where they demanded
 45 4,3  |              of the Holy See, to the pope alone the choice of her
 46 4,4  |              was commissioned by the pope to engage the Turks to help
 47 4,4  |        between Piero dei Medici, the pope, and himself, to take counsel
 48 4,4  |            round about Rome. Now the pope could not endure to live
 49 4,4  |           driven out of Italy by the pope, arrived at Lyons, and presented
 50 4,5  |      gratification of his pride, the pope the aggrandisement of his
 51 5,1  |           and demanded help from the pope; but scarcely had the rumour
 52 5,1  |            passage through Rome. The pope, therefore, instead of sending
 53 5,3  |           Poggibondi and Siena. ~The pope began to be affected by
 54 5,3  |            long a delay was that the pope's envoy and the Neapolitan
 55 5,3  |             his despatch sent to the pope: we give it here in all
 56 5,3  |      Alexander VI, Roman pontiff and pope by the will of heavenly
 57 5,3  |            bitterly annoyed with the pope for having refused him the
 58 5,4  |         about him. This was what the pope wished. Piccolomini returned
 59 5,4  |     submitted; even Gian Sforza, the pope's son-in-law, had retired
 60 5,4  |     agreement with any other but the pope alone. They found the mind
 61 5,4  |             himself a witness of the pope's simony, pressed the king
 62 5,4  |              ambassadors back to the pope, with the addition of the
 63 5,4  |           were ordered to say to the pope ~(1) That the king wished
 64 5,4  |        Castle S. Angelo, whither the pope had retired, cried out that
 65 5,5  |            often, who was afterwards Pope Julius II. The Cardinals
 66 5,5  |           the Duke of Calabria. ~The pope, as we said, had retired
 67 5,5  |         Castle S. Angelo, and as the pope saw in this castle his only
 68 5,5  |              dwelling-place; but the pope was unmoved by these demonstrations;
 69 5,6  |       adjoined the palace, while the pope, who had not had to quit
 70 5,6  |            next moment perceived the pope, and knelt down, but the
 71 5,6  |              and knelt down, but the pope pretended not to see him,
 72 5,6  |            head, with the aid of the pope's own hands. Then, after
 73 5,6  |            reception-room, where the pope was seated on his throne,
 74 5,6  |       emperor." ~At this address the pope was for a moment stupefied,
 75 5,6  |     interests of the Holy See." ~The pope arose with a joyful heart;
 76 5,6  |              they left the hall, the pope always holding the king'
 77 5,6  |           vestments are put off; the pope feigned a wish to conduct
 78 5,6  |              should receive from the pope's hand the brother of the
 79 5,6  |              120,000 livres. But the pope, desiring to extend to the
 80 5,7  |            on his knee, demanded the pope's benediction, and stooped
 81 5,7  |            on his forehead. Then the pope introduced the son of Mahomet
 82 5,7  |              a final farewell of the pope, and went down to the piazza.
 83 5,7  |            do honour to the gift the pope had just conferred on him,
 84 5,7  |              was the house where the pope's mistress lived. ~As he
 85 5,8  |      incensed him doubly against the pope. So without loss of time
 86 5,8  |             at this conduct. But the pope replied that he knew nothing
 87 5,8  |              in Rome. As a fact, the pope was speaking the truth this
 88 5,8  |              two messengers from the pope, the Bishops of Nepi and
 89 5,8  |             justice. In this way the pope had secured a double haul;
 90 5,8  |              his mother's house. The pope had in his service about
 91 5,8  |           defense that they gave the pope time he knew nothing of
 92 5,8  |            all the troubles that the pope and his family had experienced
 93 5,8  |         easily accomplished than the pope could have anticipated.
 94 5,8  |     upholding of the majority of the pope, and the interests of Christendom;
 95 5,8  |           for a contingent; thus the pope was to furnish 4000 horse,
 96 6,1  |              much as to separate the pope from the league, so as to
 97 6,1  |        utterly depressed because the pope had refused to receive him
 98 6,1  |             a council and depose the pope, he rather hoped to bring
 99 6,1  |            rather hoped to bring the pope round to his side by the
100 6,4  |         While this was going on, the pope returned to Rome, where
101 6,4  |              another victory for the pope, because its result was
102 6,4  |           did not understand how the pope, the chief of the league,
103 6,4  |       exceedingly surprised that the pope should require his presence
104 6,4  |              of the case to obey the pope's strange brief. His presence
105 6,4  |          ecclesiastical offices. The pope made sure of the success
106 6,4  |             first requirement of the pope's policy was to clear away
107 6,4  |          action that the Orsini, the pope's old friends, were now
108 7,1  |             who had been lent to the pope by the Venetians, in virtue
109 7,1  |            vanquished party; and the pope accepted his conditions
110 7,1  |              to the enemy. ~Then the pope had the corpse of Virginio
111 7,1  |        Gonzalvo de Cordova, whom the Pope had demanded from Frederic,
112 7,1  |            the Rose of Gold from the pope's hand that being the highest
113 7,2  |            father's ambition. As the pope was not satisfied with an
114 7,3  |         master of a fine domain. The pope is obviously anxious to
115 7,3  |              Don Alfonso Borgia, the pope's nephew: the whole family
116 7,3  |       Vatican to bid farewell to the pope, as he would not be able
117 7,3  |             more plausible since the pope was in the habit of sitting
118 7,3  |            to the Vatican, found the pope, took his leave of him,
119 7,4  |              into deadly terror. The pope was approached, and told
120 7,4  |             news. On the morrow, the pope, tormented by the gloomiest
121 7,4  |             entertain it, one of the pope's servants asked the Slav
122 7,4  |            funeral of the son of the pope. ~Meantime the bloodstained
123 7,4  |          bearing wine and food. ~The pope remained alone with Lucrezia
124 8,1  |      consistory, was admitted by the pope, and in accordance with
125 8,1  |           Thence he proceeded to the pope's, as soon as he was left
126 8,1  |           was all-powerful after the pope; but when he was second
127 8,1  |            was really granted by the pope, it was resolved to employ
128 8,1  |  embarrassing situation in which the pope was placed, from which the
129 8,2  |       opposite him and explained the pope's position: it was an embarrassing
130 8,2  |            would understand what the pope expected of his devotion
131 8,2  |           key that lay always on the pope's mantelpiece, so that when
132 8,2  |     furnished by the archbishop, the pope; in the presence of the
133 8,2  |          office as received from the pope, and appeared before the
134 8,2  |           ably, was presented by the pope with all the belongings
135 8,2  |             pleasures enjoyed by the pope and his family: from time
136 8,3  |              this certainty gave the pope great joy, for he attached
137 8,3  |          entered, and addressing the pope, began by saying that from
138 8,3  |              unanimous vote, and the pope, as we may suppose, like
139 8,4  |               preceded by one of the pope's couriers, who gave orders
140 8,4  |          pomp worthy of the son of a pope who is about to marry the
141 8,4  |       arranged on condition that the pope should pay 200,000 ducats
142 8,4  |       received with great joy by the pope, who at once gave orders
143 8,4  |             not only grateful to the pope for dissolving his marriage
144 8,4  |         designs in Italy to have the pope as his ally. So he promised
145 9,1  |             as the off spring of the pope's luxurious living and lust
146 9,1  |             added another son to the pope's family; thus had he cursed
147 9,1  |              that in Savonarola, the pope had an enemy at once temporal
148 9,1  |             cost. ~But mighty as the pope's power was, to accomplish
149 9,1  |        declared, on the authority of Pope Pelagius, that an unjust
150 9,2  |        impiety. At the same time the pope, in a new brief, announced
151 9,3  |        pontifical authority that the pope would send two ecclesiastical
152 9,3  |            to the gates of heaven. ~~Pope Alexander VI was thus set
153 10,1 |         received at the hands of the pope a new investiture, and now
154 10,1 |              of the Holy See. As the pope was now dealing with men
155 10,2 |              between Alfonso and the pope, but from her father's side,
156 10,2 |           astonishing than ever. The pope had declared Lucrezia Borgia
157 10,2 |            his brother; and when the pope was about to take it again,
158 10,2 |           either to make a will, the pope declared that Sermoneta
159 10,2 |          fortune of Gian Borgia, the pope's nephew, who had been one
160 10,2 |              have done honour to the pope himself. ~Caesar had only
161 10,2 |              with despatches for the pope, and lavishing upon him
162 10,2 |              soldier, captain of the pope's men-at-arms, was attacked
163 10,3 |          this assassination with the pope; but quickly perceiving,
164 10,3 |          fourth Sunday, in Lent, the pope conferred upon Caesar the
165 10,4 |              had been taken. And the pope gave the people fetes and
166 11,1 |           the vast projects that the pope and his son were founding
167 11,1 |              asked for help from the pope, who gave orders that at
168 11,1 |             Peter's Day, just as the pope was passing the Capanile
169 11,1 |           day, St. Peter's, when the pope happened to be in one of
170 11,1 |             guards at the gate, "The pope is dead, the pope is dead!"
171 11,1 |                The pope is dead, the pope is dead!" At this cry, the
172 11,1 |           the pontifical throne; the pope, who was sitting there at
173 11,1 |       miraculous preservation of the pope spread rapidly through Rome;
174 11,1 |      Stopping before this altar, the pope offered to the church the
175 11,2 |      received an invitation from the pope and his son to take part
176 11,2 |          Alfonso was received by the pope and the duke with every
177 11,2 |              for the spectators. The pope and his court took their
178 11,3 |       inhabited into those where the pope lived; but the door which
179 11,3 |              in the Torre Nuova. The pope and Caesar, who learned
180 11,3 |              the lamentations of the pope and Caesar quite seriously,
181 11,3 |          ready to be utilized in the pope's new political machinations.
182 11,3 |       inroads had been made upon the pope's treasury by the recent
183 11,3 |            ducats, and to assure the pope of a constant majority in
184 11,4 |            business on hand with the pope, but also to convey to Alexander
185 11,4 |         title might confer. Then the pope went on to bestow the twelve
186 11,4 |         archbishop of Oristagny, the Pope's vicar-general; Thomas,
187 11,4 |         perished on the day when the pope had been nearly killed by
188 11,5 |         Turks, be embroiled with the pope, forbade Caracciuala to
189 11,5 |         first bestowed on him by the pope in full consistory, and
190 12,2 |             the investiture from the pope and to hold them of him.
191 12,2 |              they were exiled by the pope from the States of the Church;
192 12,2 |         ambassadors presented to the pope the treaty signed at Grenada
193 12,2 |             readily suppose, all the pope's scruples vanished; on
194 12,3 |            behind to confer with the pope, and had joined the French
195 12,3 |            illegitimate child of the pope, who was not the son of
196 12,4 |       greeted by cries of "Long live Pope Alexander VI! Long live
197 12,4 |              the burning lights; the pope, the Duke of Valentinois,
198 12,4 |              in the Pauline hall the pope awaited her, with the Duke
199 12,4 |         cousin, Cardinal d'Este. The pope sat on one side of the table,
200 12,4 |            next room, leaning on the pope's arm, and followed by the
201 12,4 |      ceremony of betrothal over, the pope and the Duke busied themselves
202 12,4 |  preparations for the departure. The pope, who wished the journey
203 12,4 |          town, and a daughter of the pope whose mother was not Rosa
204 12,4 |          Vanozza; besides these, the pope nominated in consistory
205 12,4 |             a plan which neither the pope nor his son had ever seriously
206 12,4 |          Cosenza sang a mass and the pope officiated in state with
207 12,4 |          pleasures followed, and the pope summoned the prettiest girls
208 12,4 |       magnificence, during which the pope in the sight of all men
209 12,4 |              they left Piombino, the pope and his son visited the
210 12,4 |              became adverse, and the pope not wishing to put in at
211 12,4 |              the last three days the pope lived on fried fish that
212 12,4 |            on the same vessel as the pope, seeing that his ship could
213 12,4 |             so was taken ashore. The pope was obliged to continue
214 12,4 |             the terror of death. The pope alone did not show one instant'
215 13,1 |            in the preceding year the pope had pronounced sentence
216 13,1 |            for the harbouring of the pope's enemies, and he had accordingly
217 13,1 |          possible relations with the pope, and who had no reason for
218 13,2 |          also was entrusted with the pope's mission to renew for another
219 13,3 |            old proverb that says, "A pope cannot reign eight days,
220 13,3 |              always nevertheless the Pope Alexander VI and his Very
221 13,3 |              differences between the Pope and the lord Gian Bentivoglio,
222 13,4 |              Caesar's niece, and the pope was to recognise his sovereignty
223 13,5 |             except a prayer that the pope might grant him plenary
224 13,5 |            it should be known if the pope had arrested Cardinal Orsino,
225 13,5 |         water could extinguish. ~The pope had barely learned that
226 13,5 |            consulting this book, the pope found out two things: first,
227 13,5 |           cardinal's mother sent the pope the 2000 ducats, and the
228 13,5 |           had paid for it. ~Then the pope allowed the cardinal to
229 13,5 |              take possession, in the pope's name, of the lands of
230 14,1 |          return to Rome and help the pope to destroy all that was
231 14,1 |            cup from the hands of the pope. ~The future King of Italy
232 14,1 |           fall into the hands of the pope, and he would sell them; ~
233 14,1 |            left to be settled at the pope's fancy, would vary from
234 14,1 |          right of making a will, the pope, in order to inherit from
235 14,1 | Constantinople, and secretary to the pope; and Giacomo Casanova, protonotary
236 14,1 |            vacated offices sold, the pope made his choice of those
237 14,1 |       settled between Caesar and the pope, they invited their chosen
238 14,1 |              Caesar himself gave the pope's butler two bottles of
239 14,1 |              it was reserved for the pope's drinking. ~[The poison
240 14,2 |              climb rather steep, the pope, when he reached the top,
241 14,2 |            sent that very day to the pope, but which had been forgotten
242 14,2 |            wine was reserved for the pope, took one, and telling the
243 14,2 |          palace well, went up to the pope's bedroom, a light in his
244 14,2 |               and who was afterwards Pope Paul IV, entered boldly,
245 14,2 |              out to give them to the pope. He found supper served,
246 14,2 |         medallion to him; but as the pope stretched forth his arm
247 14,2 |              he reached his bed, the pope was seized with a violent
248 14,3 |           same for Caesar as for the pope, but in addition to bleeding
249 14,3 |              whatsoever to enter the pope's apartments until the money
250 14,3 |           deliver up the keys of the pope's rooms and cabinets; then,
251 14,3 |           open, and the death of the pope was proclaimed. ~Although
252 14,3 |              occur on the day of the pope's death, except the one
253 14,3 |       Meanwhile the obsequies of the pope were going forward: the
254 14,3 |        Vatican, to be present at the pope's funeral; each therefore
255 14,3 |          great that, although at the pope's funeral it is customary
256 14,3 |           JUKE POTEST"; ~that is, ~ "Pope Alexander sold the Christ,
257 15,1 |           they had left them, as the pope had had them embellished
258 15,1 |             instead of attending the pope's obsequies, began to assemble
259 15,2 |           desiring the election of a pope of their own nation. Caesar
260 15,2 |          Caesar to appear before the pope and the Sacred College and
261 15,2 |            to God alone. ~But as the pope felt he could not much longer
262 15,2 |              more directly under the pope's protection; he distributed
263 15,2 |          Vatican. There he found the pope in mortal agony: the Orsini,
264 15,2 |      Petrucci, gained the ear of the pope's surgeon, who placed a
265 15,2 |             a wound in his leg. ~The pope then was actually dying
266 15,3 |                 3~The same night the pope died: he had reigned only
267 15,3 |            himself, could yet make a pope: Giuliano delta Rovere had
268 15,3 |             delta Rovere was elected pope, and took the name of Julius
269 15,3 |        before: the fact was that the pope had learned in the interim
270 15,4 |             in his case, because the pope, if he chose, would have
271 15,4 |              already calmed, and the pope received him in his usual
272 15,4 |            fortress of Cesena to the pope, as being a town which had
273 15,4 |            fatal to Caesar: when the pope heard how his messenger
274 15,4 |              the duke's account. The pope on his part engaged to send
275 15,4 |            Ostia, accompanied by the pope's treasurer and many of
276 15,4 |              of his embarking on the pope's vessel that is, that he
277 Epi,2|           study the behaviour of the pope, the cardinals and other
278 Epi,2|              told, that all from the pope downward to the lowest sacristan
279 Epi,2|            firm conviction that your pope, and of course the others