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1 5,8 | dead to Bajazet for 300,00 ducats.... ~But there was
2 11 | Chapter 11~
3 13 | Chapter 13~
4 14 | Chapter 14~
5 3,1 | at Valencia, in Spain, in 1430 or 1431, and on his mother'
6 3,1 | Valencia, in Spain, in 1430 or 1431, and on his mother's side
7 1,1 | threatening to fall in about 1440, and Nicholas V, artistic
8 2,3 | in the course of the year 1442, Alfonso definitely secured
9 2,1 | and on the 30th of May, 1453, Mahomet II had made his
10 2,3 | on the 26th of December 1476, in St. Stephen's Church,
11 2,3 | Philip who died of poison in 1479, and Ascanio who became
12 3,4 | defensive had been signed, about 1480, by Naples, Milan, Florence,
13 2,1 | met accordingly in Asia in 1482. D'jem was defeated after
14 2,2 | on the 30th of August, 1483. Louis by dint of executions,
15 2,1 | Thus, on the 13th of March, 1489, the unhappy young man,
16 9,1 | absolution. So on Christmas Day, 1497, he declared that by the
17 8,3 | about the beginning of 1499 a certain courtesan named
18 15,3 | On the 31st of October 1503, at the first scrutiny,
19 16,2 | fell, on the 10th of March, 1507, on an unknown field, near
20 12,3 | barren; and there he died in 1550. Alfonso, the second son,
21 1,1 | where it remained till 1586. Now, as Nero's Circus was
22 7,3 | was fixed for Thursday the 15th of June: at the same time
23 16 | Chapter 16~
24 10,1 | campaign of conquest were 1600 lances, 5000 Swiss, 9000
25 5,2 | The king appeared, on the 17th of November in the evening,
26 5,3 | was drawing an income of 180,000 livres, which as a life
27 9,1 | sovereign council, composed of 1800 citizens; and lastly, the
28 10,1 | body, amounting to nearly 19,000 men, who were to combine
29 5,5 | army; for as there were 2500 knights, they formed each
30 15,4 | arrest, which occurred on the 27th of May, 1504, Caesar was
31 10,1 | Swiss, 9000 Gascons, and 3500 infantry, raised from all
32 12,1 | his retreat for the sum of 36,000 ducats per annum, in
33 4,2 | treaty of Etaples, on the 3rd of November, 1492, Henry
34 5,4 | eye-witness (book ii, p. 41 of his History), of Swiss
35 8,1 | thither he returned an the 5th of September, that is, nearly
36 12,2 | Genoese caracks, carrying 6500 invaders. ~Against this
37 8,1 | and on the next day, the 6th, from the church of Santa
38 12,2 | King of Naples had only 700 men-at-arms, 600 light horse,
39 4,2 | This cost Charles VIII 745,000 gold crowns and the
40 10,2 | Lucrezia for the sum of 80,000 crowns, which her father
41 9 | Chapter 9~
42 5,3 | on the 12th of September A.D. 1494." ~This letter was
43 5,4 | that the moment had came to abandon his ally, and sent to Charles
44 5,2 | advised him accordingly to abate his pretensions; the result
45 5,8 | Charles, because of the speedy abatement of the enthusiasm that had
46 3,1 | made him the gift of the abbacy of Subiaco, and sent him
47 13,5 | Hall, where he found the Abbate Alviano, the protonotary
48 1,2 | to Cardinal Colanna his abbey of Subiaca; he gives Cardinal
49 8,3 | resign all his churches, abbeys, and benefices, as well
50 8,2 | had managed the affair so ably, was presented by the pope
51 14,3 | which was to be its last abode; but it was found that the
52 10,1 | France was rich enough to abolish all taxes. And so soon as
53 9,1 | governments; secondly, the abolition of the 'balia', which was
54 9,1 | determined to attack the colossal abomination that was seated on St. Peter'
55 13,3 | have occurred during the above-mentioned misunderstandings, all the
56 5,3 | of our brother, we, the above-named Sultan Bajazet, pledge ourselves
57 13,4 | for the army to march ten abreast. ~After four hours' march,
58 5,8 | sovereign pontiff had previously absolved his son of the perjury he
59 Pro,1| they were by too severe abstinence. ~Savonarala from that time
60 3,4 | never been such astonishing abundance; and with a view to extending
61 14,1 | and a froth deadly and abundant ran out from his jaws; it
62 3,4 | Alexander VI had repudiated the abuses of nepotism, he understood
63 5,6 | could to induce them to accede to the king's desire; lastly,
64 3,2 | heaven and cried, in the accents of satisfied ambition, "
65 1,3 | epigram was read, amid the acclamation of the people: ~ "Rome under
66 9,1 | the pope's power was, to accomplish a design like this was no
67 2,3 | VI, for undertaking and accomplishing such a project. ~ ~
68 8,4 | needed his help for the accomplishment of his twofold desire. Louis
69 13,5 | down to the cardinal's account-book. On consulting this book,
70 4,4 | the advantages that had accrued to Virginio Orsini, Alexander'
71 10,2 | emoluments, rights, and revenues accruing thereunto. This had so greatly
72 7,1 | artillery by the swiftness and accuracy of their attack. The pontifical
73 4,5 | VIII gave them a receipt accurately drawn up, and pledged the
74 5,6 | King of France is here to acknowledge you as the true vicar of
75 3,1 | monasteries, and hospitals, acquiring, his historian tells us,
76 2,2 | desire for rule and the acquisition of glory, a desire based
77 14,2 | condition increased its activity. ~The two stricken men were
78 9,2 | as in the theatre every actor has his dressing-room; but
79 12,2 | profited by treasonable acts he did not have to share. ~
80 8,4 | of Cremona and Ghiera d'Adda when he had completed the
81 2,3 | of pleasure, passionately addicted to women, incessantly occupied
82 14,3 | when the declining day adds so deep a melancholy to
83 5,8 | But this was no real and adequate revenge; for it did not
84 12,3 | capitulation were faithfully adhered to on both sides: d'Aubigny
85 10,4 | appeal to their honour, adjuring them at least to ensure
86 14,1 | strong dose of arsenic was administered to a boar; as soon as the
87 15,2 | the duke in his temporal administration was quite independent and
88 12,3 | Count of Laval, governor and admiral of Brittany; a daughter
89 13,3 | Macchiavelli so greatly admired, and which indeed more than
90 6,2 | who persuaded Charles to adopt the wiser plan, and to cross
91 10,4 | were all tall men, so, adopting the dress of common soldiers,
92 7,3 | mistaken in the means he adopts: it is I who ought to have
93 14,1 | who had taken the name of Adrian of Carneta from that town
94 12,4 | been prizes for feats of adroitness, others were given now to
95 Pro,2| forgive your vanities, your adulterous pleasures, your obscene
96 3,2 | service of God and to the advancement of the Holy See, so that
97 7,4 | the midst of an amorous adventure, and was waiting till the
98 12,2 | Swiss, and 6000 Gascons and adventurers; further, Philip of Rabenstein
99 16,2 | Caesar's leg under him. His adversaries rushed upon him, and one
100 12,4 | when the weather became adverse, and the pope not wishing
101 16,2 | who was as faithful in adversity as ever before. Thanks to
102 5,3 | towards us, it would be advisable both in the interests of
103 6,1 | Giuliano delta Rovere, who was advising him once more to call a
104 8,2 | the apostolic chamber, the advocate, and the fiscal attorney,
105 3,4 | and the manuscripts of AEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
106 8,1 | with that frank air of affability which he knew well how to
107 15,1 | great, provided they do not affect themselves, had never been
108 2,2 | reign of fifty-three years, affianced his son Maximilian to Marie
109 13,5 | answer was received in the affirmative from His Holiness, Gravina
110 5,3 | promises, we have sworn and affirmed in the presence of Bucciarda,
111 11,2 | good policy far Alfonso to afford Alexander any sort of pretext
112 11,3 | interest. This fete, besides affording a triumph to each of the
113 13,5 | s men and bring about an affray: it would be much better
114 11,5 | out proportioned to the affront. And without delay, as a
115 3,2 | did for the apostle when aforetime He put into his hands the
116 12,1 | assassinate with his own hand Agamemnon Mariscotti, the head of
117 13,3 | CAESAR, PAOLO ORSINO.~ "AGAPIT, Secretary." ~ ~ ~
118 4,5 | John Aime and William John, aged respectively six and eight. ~
119 3,4 | this, he must employ two agencies alliances and conquests.
120 13,4 | general-in-chief and these agents, that they could not but
121 13,3 | Fossombrone, Urbino, Cagli, and Aggobbio; Orsino of Gravina had reconquered
122 7,3 | is obviously anxious to aggrandise his family, but he is mistaken
123 4,5 | his pride, the pope the aggrandisement of his house. He pointed
124 15,3 | Venetians had made fresh aggressions, and recognised that the
125 15,3 | save these towns from their aggressors; but, says Guicciardini,
126 12,4 | gallery, encouraged the most agile and industrious with their
127 13,2 | about face with his usual agility, he profited by the fact
128 4,2 | scholar together combined to agitate the civilized world from
129 3,1 | leading for the ambitious, agitated career that was promised
130 3,4 | no less flourishing than agriculture; Italy at this period was
131 11,1 | was a gentleman of Siena ailed Lorenzo Chigi, and the dying
132 Pro,1| added the gout, a hereditary ailment in his family. He had found
133 Pro,1| the man, and had as its aim the altering of teaching
134 4,5 | being children, Charles John Aime and William John, aged respectively
135 4,2 | dowry, and also the towns of Aire, Hesdin, and Bethune, which
136 11,2 | improvised door which was kept ajar, in order that he might
137 2,2 | found to be something nearer akin to vice than to virtue.
138 3,2 | of our sins, more heavy, alas, than his own! ~ ~
139 2,3 | Spalatra, and the shore of Albania; in the Ionian Sea, the
140 15,1 | directing them towards Albano, while Caesar took the road
141 2,2 | the Empire his son-in-law, Albert of Bavaria, who laid claim
142 1,1 | Rossellini and Battista Alberti; but some years later, after
143 11,3 | would dream of accusing Alfanso; and also if any accident
144 7,2 | of doing for him, viz., alienating from the States of the Church
145 6,4 | conquered and conqueror alike. ~The Colonna family accepted
146 8,1 | he became the man who was all-powerful after the pope; but when
147 Epi,1| contending with them and allaying them? So, you see, this
148 4,1 | to renew their oath of allegiance to the Holy Father. Ludovico
149 7,3 | Caesar at once followed suit, alleging his desire to go to the
150 2,1 | such a rival, if he once allied himself with any one of
151 3,3 | the Holy See. Lastly, by allowing himself to be governed by
152 3,2 | have been chosen by the Almighty Himself as the most worthy
153 8,4 | by equerries who marched alongside; these were followed by
154 14,3 | VENDIT ALEXANDER CLAVES, ALTARIA, CHRISTUM:~ EMERAT ILLE
155 14,3 | Alexander sold the Christ, the altars, and the keys:~ But anyone
156 Pro,1| and had as its aim the altering of teaching that was human,
157 3,4 | industries silk, wool, hemp, fur, alum, sulphur, bitumen; those
158 13,5 | where he found the Abbate Alviano, the protonotary Orsino,
159 11,4 | between the two rivers, Amana and Marziano, placing his
160 5,8 | was made known, Tropea and Amantea, which had been presented
161 10,3 | runners to invite the royal ambassadars, the cardinals, the prelates,
162 6,3 | equerry called Antoine des Ambus, and his standard-bearer. "
163 15,1 | him an escort, fearing an ambuscade on the part of Fabio Orsino,
164 16,2 | they had fallen into an ambush, took to their heels like
165 11,4 | Ferraro, bishop of Modem; Amedee d'Albret, son of the King
166 3,4 | for other countries what America was for Spain, a vast gold-mine
167 4,5 | balanced the gains of the American gold-mines. ~The king's
168 9,1 | successively obtained, first, an amnesty for all crimes and delinquencies
169 Pro,2| Nardi, Jacopo Frescobaldi, Amoretto Baldovinetti, Pietro Balducci,
170 7,4 | daylight in the midst of an amorous adventure, and was waiting
171 4,3 | at her father's side an amount of favour hitherto unheard
172 10,1 | August this whole body, amounting to nearly 19,000 men, who
173 9,1 | stigmatised Alexander's new amour with the beautiful Giulia
174 5,7 | contrast in its fashion and amplitude to the narrow, severe cut
175 15,3 | but this check had been amply compensated by the surrender
176 8,3 | hung, still bleeding, the amputated limbs of a poor Jew who
177 2,2 | took part in the robberies. Amurath seized part of Hungary.
178 6,1 | army than to excite their amusement beyond measure; for they
179 7,1 | least, if we may judge by analogy that had carried off Bajazet'
180 6,1 | and leaving Cardinal Sant' Anastasio to receive Charles while
181 12,1 | Gian di Bentivoglio, whose ancestors had possessed this town
182 15,4 | ship, which at once weighed anchor and set sail for Spain:
183 Pro,2| displayed the virtues of the ancients; and therefore, when the
184 5,3 | extending from Piombina to Ancona. ~It was at this juncture
185 11,2 | Alfonso mounted a magnificent Andalusian steed of Arab origin, light
186 11,1 | vicar on earth that He was angered by the mockery of sacred
187 2,3 | who commanded the whole Angevin party. Still he managed
188 7,1 | Severino the fortresses of Anguillara and Cervetri; then, when
189 1,1 | with the temple of Probus Anicius which adjoined it. In their
190 2,3 | spite of all the efforts the animal made to escape from his
191 6,3 | at first appeared to be animated with a terrible purpose,
192 6,3 | Montefeltro, the second by Annibale Bentivoglio. ~Charles had
193 6,1 | to the hazard, attempt to annihilate the King of France and his
194 11,5 | are accustomed to keep the anniversary of the foundation of the
195 15,1 | cities of Chiuzano, Capo d'Anno, Frascati, Rocca di Papa,
196 13,3 | against any power that may annoy or attack them for any cause
197 3,4 | this point, to the great annoyance of Alexander VI, who saw
198 13,2 | take her. It was indeed an annoying thing to have these fortresses
199 10,1 | investiture, and now they paid annual dues, for which they received
200 5,3 | livres, which as a life annuity represented a capital of
201 15,2 | quite independent and was answerable for his actions to God alone. ~
202 6,3 | strange dress of their new antagonists, and the peculiar method
203 4,2 | discontent, because of John's antecedents; and Alexander, encouraged
204 14,2 | rooms he had swallowed an antidote known only to himself, was
205 Pro,2| Dietisalvi, Nerone Nigi, Angelo Antinori, Niccalo Soderini, and twice
206 10,3 | classical costumes and riding in antique cars, on one of which Caesar
207 3,4 | inherited the masterpieces of antiquity; and the manuscripts of
208 16,2 | but his head above water anxiously watched the movements of
209 | anyhow
210 13,5 | who led him into another apartment, called the Vicar's Hall,
211 1,3 | fall; little by little the aperture grew larger, and in a few
212 8,4 | had been struck dawn by an apoplectic seizure directly after his
213 12,4 | the duchy of Piombino. The apparent object of this journey was
214 1,1 | during the days of Conclave appears to be attacked by a strange
215 8,3 | impassibility of a scribe, appending no remark or moral reflection. ~"
216 10,2 | and all of her property appertaining to the Caetani devolved
217 15,1 | entered Citta di Castello, the Appiani Piombino, the Orsini Monte
218 9,2 | privilege for the first applicants, ordered that the strange
219 9,3 | protestation led to a new application of the torture, during which
220 4,1 | into Rome on the same day, appointing one of their envoy, viz.
221 3,1 | person in the world who could appreciate the value of this pious
222 Epi,1| reputation. Jean de Civigny, appreciating the qualities of the worthy
223 3,1 | an intelligence extremely apt far the study of sciences,
224 12,2 | reserved for his own share Apulia and Calabria, with the title
225 6,1 | Manfredonia, Trani, Catanzaro, Aquila, and Sulmone; then leaving
226 1,3 | starting from the church of Ara Coeli at the Capitol, was
227 11,2 | magnificent Andalusian steed of Arab origin, light as the wind
228 8,4 | famous carbuncles of the Arabian Nights; he also wore on
229 11,3 | to gain upon the son of Araby, for all his speed, and
230 9,2 | unless they forbade the arch-heretic to preach, all the goods
231 2,3 | and Argos; lastly, in the Archipelago, besides several little
232 11,2 | long in that restricted area from an adversary against
233 13,1 | San Severino, Castiglione, Aretino, Cortone, and the other
234 2,3 | Morone, Corone, Neapolis, and Argos; lastly, in the Archipelago,
235 2,1 | the name of Zizimeh, had argued that whereas he was born
236 2,3 | a fortiori', relations arising from the obligations of
237 9,1 | the 'balia', which was an aristocratic magistracy; thirdly, the
238 12,4 | the storm, sitting on his arm-chair, invoking the name of Jesus
239 13,2 | occurred between the Count of Armagnac and Gonzalva di Cordova,
240 4,5 | and Genoa, and that these armaments would be lost; he reminded
241 9,3 | should be thrown into the Arno. But certain half-burned
242 9,1 | two other factions, the 'Arrabiati', or Madmen, who, consisting
243 3,2 | sword-stroke; moreover, he was arrogant, jealous, and insincere.
244 12,3 | Ranuzia, wounded by an arrow, fell into the hands of
245 12,4 | real object was to form an arsenal in Jacopo d'Appiano's capital
246 14,1 | the lie. ~A strong dose of arsenic was administered to a boar;
247 7,4 | one in the throat, whose artery was cut. The clothing had
248 10,1 | powerful in arms and clever in artifice, he did not allow himself
249 5,5 | night and for every six artillery-men there was a torch-bearer,
250 1,1 | about 1440, and Nicholas V, artistic forerunner of Julius II
251 4,2 | the counties of Burgundy, Artois, Charalais, and the seigniory
252 10,4 | of Ludovico Sforza and of Ascania, of a legitimate nephew
253 1,2 | Castellana; as to Cardinal Ascanio-Sforza, he knows already that the
254 11,5 | any time at Cesena, and ascertained that she was only passing
255 5,4 | ancient Romans, and carried ashen lances ten feet long, with
256 12,4 | put out, and so was taken ashore. The pope was obliged to
257 2,3 | rights against Rene. The two aspirants for some time disputed the
258 8,3 | who rode backwards on an ass, and held in his hand a
259 12,1 | commanded his son Hermes to assassinate with his own hand Agamemnon
260 1,1 | the police; so that the assassinations had continued in goodly
261 11,5 | neither excommunications nor assaults could help him, Caesar converted
262 3,2 | a brilliant and numerous assemblage of cardinals, with the three
263 13,5 | towards Borgo, and there assembling some infantry also, in order
264 14,2 | advanced to render his father assistance, Caesar was similarly seized;
265 4,2 | of Spain, if they had not assisted at the fall of the house
266 8,2 | less than the honour of assisting as envoy, with the title
267 1,1 | edifice, with its venerable associations, in which Charlemagne received
268 4,2 | had very great trouble in assuming even the appearance of a
269 7,2 | the solemn festival of the Assumption; in which Ganzalvo was invited
270 5,3 | for the final and complete assurance of your Highness, in order
271 12,3 | after he had received fresh assurances on his own account of the
272 7,4 | resigned; for Guicciardini assures us that his daughter had
273 4,3 | royal audience of ancient Assyria, rather than at the severe
274 3,3 | love to lead him blindly astray, all this love that he bore
275 14,2 | habit to a prophecy that an astrologer had made, that so long as
276 2,3 | man, full of courage and astuteness, familiar with the sword
277 6,4 | sign the capitulation of Atella, after a siege of thirty-two
278 14,3 | even in the heart of the atheist, the bier was taken up again
279 11,2 | times displayed an absurd attachment for her husband, and they
280 9,1 | forbidding the faithful to attend at Savonarola's sermons.
281 15,1 | his own way, instead of attending the pope's obsequies, began
282 6,4 | foot of Vesuvius; all the attentions lavished upon him by his
283 8,2 | advocate, and the fiscal attorney, pronounced sentence, condemning
284 10,3 | William Tell, put up to auction by the nations, and carried
285 8,1 | was so great, and their audacity such, that no one could
286 4,3 | magnificent and voluptuous royal audience of ancient Assyria, rather
287 5,8 | confirming their privileges and augmenting their power, he had wounded
288 Pro,1| mistaken for a poet of the Augustan age. ~The third, who was
289 2,2 | letters of these five words ~ "AUSTRIAE EST IMPERARE ORBI UNIVERSO." ~
290 15,4 | Cesena and Bertinoro, and authorise the surrender of Forli.
291 11,5 | connected with the crime, nay, authorising Manenti and the French ambassador
292 6,1 | and Civita Vecchia to the authorities of the Romagna, only keeping
293 8,4 | with Jeanne of France and authorizing his union with Anne of Brittany,
294 3,2 | face, even contemporary authors have left utterly different
295 2,1 | costume, between the Prior of Auvergne, nephew of the Grand Master
296 Epi,2| contrary, luxurious living, avarice, greed, fraud, envy, pride,
297 Epi,2| further, he found them so avaricious and fond of money that they
298 5,7 | cardinal, "you shall be avenged, or I will lose the name
299 1,1 | everybody; for, according to the average established in the period
300 12,2 | infantry; in person he occupied Aversa with another division of
301 11,1 | be said, to pray God to avert the danger which was threatening
302 12,4 | The Duke of Valentinais averted this inconvenience in the
303 10,1 | long exile of the popes at Avignon, most of the towns and fortresses
304 6,2 | same time without trying to avoid it, should the enemy cross
305 6,3 | as there was no means of avoiding the danger, he had decided
306 8,2 | His Holiness could not avow to Ferdinand and Isabella
307 9,3 | torture produced the same avowals, and the relief that followed
308 13,5 | information, to which he awaits your reply." ~The same night
309 1,2 | four servants should be awakened; and while they were getting
310 3,3 | The young man remained awhile stupefied at this discourse,
311 12,4 | the inhabitants of Cesena awoke to find a scaffold set up
312 6,3 | flight, ran up armed with the axes they habitually used to
313 9,3 | them off from the Church. "Ay, from the Church militant,"
314 6,2 | the king's household under Aymar de Prie, some Scots, and
315 1,1 | Vatican, a splendid Tower of Babel, to which all the celebrated
316 7,3 | with no sign of emotion, backed his horse towards the dead
317 7,4 | horseman turned his horse, backing on the river; then the two
318 6,4 | efforts, they turned their backs upon the French rear and
319 14,2 | strength to move either backward or forward; then thinking
320 8,3 | by a constable, who rode backwards on an ass, and held in his
321 8,4 | shoes, and these were so badly nailed on that more than
322 12,1 | Vitellozzo and Gian Paolo Bagliani to prosecute the siege in
323 15,1 | chase. Sforza retook Pesaro, Bagloine Perugia, Guido and Ubaldo
324 4,5 | cruel complaint that counter balanced the gains of the American
325 11,2 | took their places on the balconies of the Vatican. ~The fete
326 Pro,2| Jacopo Frescobaldi, Amoretto Baldovinetti, Pietro Balducci, Bernardo
327 Pro,2| Amoretto Baldovinetti, Pietro Balducci, Bernardo di Banding, Francesco
328 9,1 | secondly, the abolition of the 'balia', which was an aristocratic
329 2,2 | Burgundy and had put under the ban of the Empire his son-in-law,
330 16,1 | this was done, he undid the bandages on his leg, took down the
331 Pro,2| Pietro Balducci, Bernardo di Banding, Francesco Frescobaldi,
332 Epi,2| talents, art, endeavours, to banish the Christian religion from
333 11,4 | effect a loan from a rich banker named Agostino Chigi, brother
334 10,3 | ensign-bearers, who carried banners whereon was inscribed the
335 Epi,2| priest he met to administer baptism to his friend, and this
336 Epi,1| there is no one here to baptize you? If you have any doubts
337 Epi,2| for I am quite ready to be baptized." ~There is no need to say
338 11,5 | respected by the veriest barbarian, a man who will do violence
339 2,3 | whose doge was Agostino Barbarigo, she had attained, at the
340 Pro,1| gold-brocaded curtains, was Ermolao Barbaro, author of the treatise '
341 8,3 | disguise 'the Spanish lady from Barbary!' As a punishment, both
342 12,1 | mountains and arrived at Barberino, feeling that the town was
343 4,2 | England. ~By the treaty of Barcelona, dated the 19th of January,
344 3,2 | in fencing; he could ride barebacked the most fiery steeds, could
345 Pro,1| at once, bareheaded and barefoot, hoping to save not only
346 3,1 | 1~RODERIGO LENZUOLO was barn at Valencia, in Spain, in
347 4,5 | courier to Antoine de Bessay, Baron de Tricastel, bidding him
348 6,3 | between Count di Cajazzo, barring the way with his four hundred
349 16,1 | day he attacked one of the bars of a window that looked
350 9,1 | Maggiore, and pictures by Fro Bartalommeo, who from that day forward
351 2,1 | while two men of genius, Bartolome Diaz and Christopher Columbus,
352 15,3 | for Ostia, accompanied by Bartolommeo della Rovere, nephew of
353 1,1 | Peter's now stands, and the base of this obelisk covered
354 5,2 | every house from garret to basement seemed overflowing with
355 10,3 | command is surpassed by the baseness of those who obey, the orders
356 6,4 | inch by inch, Calabria, the Basilicate, and Naples, were obliged
357 6,1 | between the two camps, a vast basin filled during the winter
358 2,3 | the Count of Viana, who, basing his claim on his uncle's
359 3,3 | his grandeur on any other basis than the noblest virtue
360 1,2 | on a litter, in a large basket with the arms of the cardinal
361 11,4 | party had erected a powerful bastion. ~At the end of a few days
362 14,3 | slipped into this living bath of blood: when the bull
363 12,1 | whom Bentivoglio forced to bathe their hands in this blood,
364 7,3 | he should not shrink from bathing his hands in the blood of
365 5,4 | bayonet: the first row of each battalion wore helmets and cuirasses
366 12,2 | they began to set up their batteries, which were soon in play,
367 10,2 | view to it, and placing a battery of cannon in front of the
368 6,3 | lance, but with a heavy battle-axe, whose every blow was mortal
369 8,4 | pranced sixteen handsome battle-horses, led by equerries who marched
370 16,1 | listening to the accounts of his battles. So he had often insisted
371 10,4 | Ascanio in the tower of Baurges, threw into prison Alessandro,
372 2,2 | his son-in-law, Albert of Bavaria, who laid claim to the ownership
373 5,4 | axe and piercing like a bayonet: the first row of each battalion
374 8,4 | rows of rubies, the size of beans, which reflected so brilliant
375 3,2 | with pale skin and tawny beard whom Raphael shows us in
376 14,3 | into the sacristy, and the bearers dropped the bier. ~The people,
377 4,2 | whence he took his name and bearings is still to be seen carved
378 4,3 | sanctity of the name he bears. But," continues the same
379 11,5 | touched by the infuriated beast. At this time she was betrothed,
380 6,2 | preceded by six thousand beasts of burden bearing the baggage,
381 5,8 | suffering any loss, managed to beat a retreat to a house, where
382 4,4 | his disposal; the Lady of Beaujeu and the Duke of Bourbon
383 1,1 | staircases, and the two thousand bedchambers; for Pope Sixtus V, the
384 15,1 | was in, advanced to his bedside alone: he came, against
385 11,5 | army, showing him honours befitting a young prince, and evincing
386 7,4 | whole day at the threshold, begging His Holiness to take heart,
387 12,4 | it smacked of the humble beginnings of the Borgian house. The
388 1,1 | at the hour when the day begins to decline great cries went
389 13,5 | towards him; secondly, he begs that you will at this juncture
390 11,3 | witnesses, and was consequently beheaded. ~But they had only accomplished
391 3,2 | are peculiarly rejoiced in beholding us on this sublime height,
392 4,1 | signed, with Count Charles di Belgiojasa and the Count of Cajazza
393 4,3 | successor. ~Ferdinand never belied his title of "the happy
394 10,4 | treason was the town of Bellinzona; for it then belonged to
395 2,3 | the districts of Feltre, Belluno, Cadore, Polesella of Rovigo,
396 5,5 | Rome and the keys of the Belvedere Garden just the same thing
397 5,7 | learned there that Alfonso, belying his reputation as a clever
398 16,2 | goddess by Ariosto and by Bembo. ~ ~
399 14,3 | top to force the knees to bend, the others hammered in
400 11,1 | his way to the tribune of benedictions, a enormous piece of iron
401 11,4 | had been forsaken by the Bentivagli, his near relatives, and
402 13,4 | were settled as follows: ~Bentivaglio should separate his fortunes
403 2,3 | Manfredi at Faenza, the Bentivogli at Bologna, the Malatesta
404 6,4 | up the roads to Parma and Bercetto. But Marechal de Gie and
405 2,3 | Venice, the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Crema, Verona,
406 1,1 | either the fine colonnade of Bernini, or the dancing fountains,
407 13,5 | to give him up would not beseem the dignity of the republic,
408 12,4 | only those honours which beseemed their rank, but also as
409 3,1 | ambitious schemes which beset the new pope at every step,
410 4,5 | a courier to Antoine de Bessay, Baron de Tricastel, bidding
411 4,2 | towns of Aire, Hesdin, and Bethune, which he promised to deliver
412 4,1 | weight into the scales; so, betraying to Alexander the policy
413 12,4 | Paolo. ~The ceremony of betrothal over, the pope and the Duke
414 14,2 | taken less of the fatal beverage, perhaps because the strength
415 2,1 | spite of the urgency of Cait Bey, Sultan of Egypt, who, having
416 8,2 | a bed; for occupation, a Bible and a breviary, with a lamp
417 8,1 | Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bicelli and Prince of Salerno, natural
418 10,3 | for sale to the highest bidder. The French were the first
419 9,1 | oligarchical government; and the 'Bigi', or Greys, so called because
420 13,3 | aforesaid and each of them shall bind themselves to unite all
421 16,2 | his body to the wolves and birds of prey. Torches were lighted,
422 12,3 | attained his eighteenth birthday. ~Frederic's daughter Charlotte
423 13,3 | Bargia, Duke of Sermaneta and Biselli, and Don Gian Borgia, Duke
424 8,3 | six animals began kicking, biting and fighting each other
425 5,7 | warmed in your bosom. He has bitten me, fearing no doubt that
426 5,3 | matter, for Charles VIII was bitterly annoyed with the pope for
427 3,4 | hemp, fur, alum, sulphur, bitumen; those products which the
428 3,2 | year he was the sombre, black-haired cavalier with pale skin
429 9,3 | relics are even now shown, blackened by the flames, to the faithful,
430 8,4 | extravagance Caesar was greatly blamed, for it was thought an audacious
431 3,4 | it is a fact that Flavio Blando, writing in 1450, describes
432 14,3 | rolled up in burning hot blankets, where, after copious perspirations,
433 Pro,2| Jericho, shall fall at the blast of their trumpets." ~"And
434 6,3 | brandishing his long sword, which blazed about him like lightning,
435 3,4 | peasants were perhaps the most blest on the face of the earth:
436 14,2 | corridor a puff of wind blew out his lamp; still, as
437 8,2 | partly through fear, partly blinded by the thought of the reward;
438 3,3 | suffered this love to lead him blindly astray, all this love that
439 6,2 | their camp and attempt to block his passage. The king accordingly,
440 11,5 | converted the siege into a blockade: all the roads leading to
441 15,2 | had made along detour and blocked Caesar's way; so, when the
442 8,3 | who saw nothing in the bloodiest or most wanton performances
443 7,4 | the pope. ~Meantime the bloodstained hands of Caesar Borgia were
444 1,2 | wanton that the young man blushed under it: but as at the
445 14,1 | arsenic was administered to a boar; as soon as the poison began
446 11,5 | speak thus of a man whose boast it is to be a member of
447 7,4 | Ripetta, questioning every boatman and fisherman who might
448 7,4 | summoned at once all the boatmen and fishermen who were accustomed
449 7,4 | their houses or from their boats, what had happened on the
450 8,1 | by cardinals, envoys and bodyguard. The whole pontifical town,
451 16,2 | riddled with arrows and bolts, his horse at last fell,
452 12,2 | Alfonso, loosened all the bonds that attached him to the
453 10,3 | for 5000 ducats to Ventura Bonnassai, a merchant of Siena, who
454 9,1 | visitation, claiming all profane books, licentious paintings, lutes,
455 5,6 | in exchange therefor such boons as he may demand. His Majesty,
456 3,4 | importance never acquired by the boorish French peasants or the German
457 4,4 | but the whole of Italy to boot. In his preparations for
458 12,4 | humble beginnings of the Borgian house. The Duke of Valentinois
459 14,1 | of the briefs; Francesco Boris, bishop of Elva, patriarch
460 5,7 | you have warmed in your bosom. He has bitten me, fearing
461 4,5 | moved him deeply, for at the bottom of his heart he was convinced
462 4,4 | each, and three thousand bowmen and light horse. He proposed,
463 13,4 | distant from the sea, and a bowshot from the mountains; between
464 11,5 | handsome youth with the bowstring he had been strangled with
465 11,4 | was governed by a mere boy, and deprived of all outside
466 7,1 | Colonnas', he marched towards Braccianno, which was being besieged
467 15,2 | Caesar resolved to retire to Bracciano, where Gian Giordano Orsino,
468 7,2 | the helmet and none of the brains, who has the sword and no
469 9,3 | had long been threatening brake over Florence with such
470 3,4 | dead, but Ariosto, Raphael, Bramante, and Michael Angelo were
471 12,3 | to rise again, fell this branch of the house of Aragon,
472 11,3 | came in front of Caesar he brandished the sword, which flashed
473 6,3 | he had just broken, but brandishing his long sword, which blazed
474 8,4 | if one may believe what Brantome says. Finally, behind these
475 12,2 | the walls. So, although bravely repulsed by Fabrizio Colonna,
476 5,8 | had made the chief of his bravoes; he was a man of five-and-thirty
477 15,3 | heard through the length and breadth of Romagna. ~This advice
478 1,3 | frog a hundred thousand breasts followed the silence "Non
479 Pro,1| statue, fell back on his bed, breathing a sigh so profound that
480 16,1 | breathed freely with full-drawn breaths. ~There was no time to lose:
481 8,2 | reached down to his knees, breeches of the same, and a pair
482 5,8 | despatched to Rome Philippe de Bresse, afterwards Duke of Savoy,
483 12,2 | was bringing by sea six Breton and Provencal vessels, and
484 8,2 | occupation, a Bible and a breviary, with a lamp to read by;
485 11,4 | ceremonies, surprised at the brevity of the greeting, asked if
486 1,2 | prepared." ~"My father has bribed the bishop who examines
487 12,3 | with cunning supported by bribery, proved as usual more prompt
488 5,6 | the Sacred College William Bricannet, the Bishop of St. Malo.
489 12,4 | before she received those the bridegroom was hoping to offer himself,
490 2,2 | Apennines he was attacked by brigands. They robbed him, but he
491 4,4 | s troops, embarked on a brigantine which was to carry him to
492 12,4 | cavalcade, which shone the more brightly under the torchlight and
493 5,5 | court of very different brilliance from that of the head of
494 5,8 | had hitherto never quitted Brindisi, had only to appear at Tarentum
495 Pro,2| Papi Orlandi, Francesco di Brisighella, Bernardo Nardi, Jacopo
496 14,1 | Melchiore Copis, bishop of Brissina; Nicolas Fiesque, bishop
497 2,2 | head, a short thick neck, broad chest, and high shoulders;
498 5,5 | king's escort thirty-six bronze cannons were seen to advance,
499 3,4 | behindhand: Dante, Giotto, Brunelleschi, and Donatello were dead,
500 9,1 | world to consecrate his brush utterly and entirely to