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 501 12,4 |        people; for by the account of Bucciardo, an eye-witness, this is
 502 16,2 |              alone, Caesar would not budge one step; possibly he had
 503 13,2 |     expiation of a mistake: he was a buffalo of Romagna who opposed his
 504 5,5  |        cannons were seen to advance, bumping along as they lay on their
 505 11,3 |                The same night," says Burcardus, "Don Alfonso, who would
 506 8,3  |            where he was to have been burnt to death, had not rain fallen
 507 5,1  |             So the news of these two butcheries produced a tremendous sensation
 508 1,2  |            Then is there no means of buying them?" cried the elder of
 509 14,3 |            the keys:~ But anyone who buys a thing may sell it if he
 510 14,3 |              of the pope's rooms and cabinets; then, under his guidance,
 511 2,3  |            power and splendour. From Cadiz to the Palus Maeotis, there
 512 2,3  |        districts of Feltre, Belluno, Cadore, Polesella of Rovigo, and
 513 2,1  |              spite of the urgency of Cait Bey, Sultan of Egypt, who,
 514 4,1  |          Belgiojasa and the Count of Cajazza acting for Ludovica Sforza,
 515 5,8  |             the great Neapolitan and Calabrian vassals, whose roots would
 516 4,1  |         Henry VII had disembarked at Calais with a formidable army,
 517 Pro,2|              was to bring about many calamities," says Niccolo Macchiavelli, "
 518 13,2 |        genius to divert an impending calamity that threatened his destruction
 519 6,2  |              camps, and could easily calculate the numerical difference
 520 6,4  |         their strategy and all their calculations useless, especially as for
 521 1,1  |           and transferred to Rome by Caligula, who set it up in Nero's
 522 5,2  |         cardinal reached the Via dei Calizaioli, a threatening murmur was
 523 12,4 |            this strange night, which calls to mind the Roman evenings
 524 6,2  |        seemed to be getting a little calmer, though the Taro, only a
 525 13,5 |              ambassador, "and in the calmest manner showed me his joy
 526 9,2  |              Savonarola, so far from calming the ferment, had increased
 527 13,2 |            positive that he had been calumniated in the evacuation of the
 528 10,1 |            and Farli, the Variani of Camerina, the Montefeltri of Urbino,
 529 5,8  |         received orders to scour the Campagna and cut every French throat
 530 9,2  |          Duomo and on the tap of the Campanile. ~ ~ ~
 531 11,5 |          marched anew upon the town, camped opposite the castle, and
 532 15,4 |            Gonzalvo's captains, Nuno Campeja by name, who arrested him
 533 15,2 |             his palace, the soldiers camping round about. ~Meanwhile
 534 2,3  |          beyond the coastline of the canals and the ancient duchy of
 535 4,2  |            November, 1492, Henry VII cancelled the alliance with the King
 536 13,4 |             a hundred men with M. de Candale, his brother-in-law; it
 537 2,3  |              on the coast, she owned Candia and the kingdom of Cyprus. ~
 538 1,3  |           were divided between three candidates, who were Roderigo Borgia,
 539 12,4 |               the table was removed, candlesticks were set on the floor in
 540 11,5 |       outrage perpetrated upon their candottiere. At the same time the Council
 541 4,3  |              of the pulpit where the canons of St. Peter are wont to
 542 13,4 |              the soldiers as were in cantonments in the neighbourhood to
 543 4,5  |   foot-soldiers he had levied in the cantons; lastly, he started himself
 544 10,2 |        however, had he entered Rocca Cantrada when he again felt so extremely
 545 11,1 |             the pope was passing the Capanile on his way to the tribune
 546 5,6  |      Cardinal Valentino, and fetch a cape and hat. Then taking the
 547 10,2 |              to Forli, was forced to capitulate. Imola taken, Caesar marched
 548 15,1 |              the cities of Chiuzano, Capo d'Anno, Frascati, Rocca
 549 5,2  |              sounded. Hereupon Piero Capponi, secretary to the republic,
 550 3,1  |     according to his own fancies and caprices. About this time he became
 551 12,4 |        garters, velvet boots, golden caps, and laces; then new diversions
 552 13,1 |          joined their party, set the captives at liberty, and seized Guglielmo;
 553 13,1 |              Italy by the successive captures of the duchy of Urbino,
 554 11,1 |      ordinary dwelling with Cardinal Capuano and Monsignare Poto, his
 555 11,5 |     embroiled with the pope, forbade Caracciuala to take any sort of private
 556 12,2 |           vessels, and three Genoese caracks, carrying 6500 invaders. ~
 557 8,4  |         fancied they were the famous carbuncles of the Arabian Nights; he
 558 9,1  |             paintings, lutes, harps, cards and dice, cosmetics and
 559 5,8  |              never doubting that the cargo of the others was equally
 560 4,2  |          Squillace and the county of Cariati, with an income of 10,000
 561 4,2  |             Chiaramonte, Lauria, and Carinola, an income of 12,000 ducats,
 562 Pro,1|            1492, in a bedroom of the Carneggi Palace, about three miles
 563 14,1 |          taken the name of Adrian of Carneta from that town where he
 564 1,1  |         looking like a motley moving carpet, were climbing up into the
 565 12,4 |      clarions, and made her way over carpets that were laid down in the
 566 11,5 |             as we mentioned, to Gian Carracciuola, general of the Venetians.
 567 11,2 |           betrothed to Gian Battista Carraciualo, captain-general of the
 568 10,2 |         although he had given up his carriage for a litter. This was his
 569 6,2  |             of the guard with Gilles Carrone far standard-bearer, pensioners
 570 10,3 |       costumes and riding in antique cars, on one of which Caesar
 571 10,1 |           went he left Bernardino da Carte in charge of the castle
 572 10,4 |              into prison Alessandro, Cartino, and Hermes, and finally,
 573 4,5  |           VIII, one at Turin, one at Casale, each at the head of a numerous
 574 3,1  |        discussion of the most thorny cases. All the same, he was not
 575 Epi,2|              that they sold for hard cash both human bodies and divine
 576 8,2  |         pounds of bread and a little cask of water, which were to
 577 12,4 |              precious stones; then a casket was placed on the table,
 578 14,1 |              cardinals were Giovanni Castellaro Valentine, archbishop of
 579 10,1 |           Arezzo, Novarro, Voghiera, Castelnuovo, Ponte Corona, Tartone,
 580 13,1 |             upon Monte San Severino, Castiglione, Aretino, Cortone, and the
 581 16,1 |              and asked him as an Old Castilian, for whom honour is still
 582 12,3 |           some of these holy virgins casting themselves into pits or
 583 14,3 |              and, lifting it off the catafalque, where it lay in state,
 584 6,1  |          Angelo, Manfredonia, Trani, Catanzaro, Aquila, and Sulmone; then
 585 5,3  |              had succumbed, and that Catherine Sforza had made terms with
 586 Pro,1|            was Angelo Poliziano, the Catullus of the fifteenth century,
 587 1,1  |              the Vatican or to Monte Cavallo, according as the scarlet-robed
 588 3,2  |          gaze, behind which burned a ceaseless flame, giving to his face
 589 4,3  |             long as they had to keep ceaselessly on guard against the Turks;
 590 14,3 |              welded to the floor and ceiling, were set up in his room,
 591 10,2 |   archbishops disputed the honour of celebrating mass in her private apartments. ~
 592 4,3  |           such worthy functions, the celebrations of the coming of the Holy
 593 5,8  |            Correglia, who earned his celebrity for bloody deeds under the
 594 Pro,1|           author of the treatise 'On Celibacy', and of 'Studies in Pliny':
 595 1,2  |               with the furniture and cellar; to the Cardinal of Parma
 596 14,1 |              in succession Vicovaro, Cera, Palombera, Lanzano, and
 597 4,2  |       Perpignan, Roussillon, and the Cerdagne, which had all been given
 598 8,3  |           Lucrezia and Alfonso; this certainty gave the pope great joy,
 599 7,1  |         fortresses of Anguillara and Cervetri; then, when the day came
 600 14,1 |              Palombera, Lanzano, and Cervetti ; when these conquests were
 601 11,4 |        spirit there must needs be no cessation of warfare or festivities.
 602 12,4 |         forth a great many trinkets, chains, necklaces of pearls and
 603 8,2  |          wooden crucifix, a table, a chair, and a bed; for occupation,
 604 11,1 |            the gift of a magnificent chalice in which were three hundred
 605 15,2 |             upon his enemies, loudly challenging Orsino in the hope of killing
 606 12,4 |        Mattei, sons of Piero Mattel, chancellor of the town, and a daughter
 607 4,3  |             of St. Peter are wont to chant the Epistle and Gospel,
 608 1,1  |            epoch the two magnificent chapels did not exist, nor the twelve
 609 10,4 |              he might pass for their chaplain; the others, Galeazzo di
 610 12,2 |             and circumspection which characterised him. Besides his alliance
 611 12,4 |              and efficacious fashion characteristic of him alone. One morning
 612 4,2  |        counties of Burgundy, Artois, Charalais, and the seigniory of Noyers,
 613 15,1 |             artillery came a hundred chariots escorted by his advance
 614 1,1  |     venerable associations, in which Charlemagne received hospitality when
 615 12,3 |       birthday. ~Frederic's daughter Charlotte married in France Nicholas,
 616 16,1 |              the honours: Caesar was charmingly courteous; the governor
 617 15,1 |             arose and hurried to the chase. Sforza retook Pesaro, Bagloine
 618 12,3 |      Valentinois broke in the doors, chased out for himself forty of
 619 Epi,2|         seemed to Abraham, himself a chaste, sober, and upright man,
 620 7,4  |             his offspring was a just chastisement from God; then he retired
 621 6,2  |            Gie, Messire Claude de la Chatre de Guise, and M. de la Trimauille,
 622 13,2 |         Pazzi, had demanded aid from Chaumont dumbest, governor of the
 623 3,3  |            the blood mantling to the cheek of Francesco, and called
 624 7,2  |             than their want, and his cheeks, generally pale, were now
 625 3,1  |              on the tiara only after cherishing hopes of the crowns of Aragon
 626 1,3  |             a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the
 627 12,4 |              and a great quantity of chestnuts was scattered on the ground:
 628 13,1 |         other towns of the valley of Chiana, which submitted one after
 629 4,2  |           Tricarico, the counties of Chiaramonte, Lauria, and Carinola, an
 630 1,2  |          sent for hot meat, and each chicken will contain a deed of gift
 631 1,2  |     Cardinals of Parma and of Genoa, chickens will be sent for hot meat,
 632 10,4 |            town an old friend of his childhood, by name Conrad Lando, whom
 633 8,4  |              daughter of Louis XI; a childless and hideously deformed woman,
 634 7,2  |           him leaning against a tall chimney-piece, no longer wearing his cardinal'
 635 15,1 |            castles and the cities of Chiuzano, Capo d'Anno, Frascati,
 636 5,1  |       accustomed as they were to the chivalrous contests of the fifteenth
 637 9,1  |             to get absolution. So on Christmas Day, 1497, he declared that
 638 14,3 |           ALEXANDER CLAVES, ALTARIA, CHRISTUM:~ EMERAT ILLE PRIUS, VENDERE
 639 3,2  |            him. And historians, both chroniclers and painters, agree as to
 640 4,2  |             even the appearance of a Churchman's virtue; but as he knew
 641 2,1  |              Aubusson, and Francesco Cibo, the son of the pope. ~After
 642 2,1  |           was obliged to embark from Cilicia, and took refuge in Rhodes,
 643 10,3 |         arrested. But the rumour was circulated that Caesar, in the short
 644 7,2  |            to his master's tricks of circumlocution, the bravo was so far from
 645 12,2 |               with that prudence and circumspection which characterised him.
 646 15,3 |       exchanged for the seigniory of Cittadella, in the State of Padua,
 647 4,2  |              combined to agitate the civilized world from the Gulf of Tarentum
 648 9,2  |         women and even children were clamouring to be allowed to try. At
 649 11,3 |           was received not with mere clapping but with wild enthusiasm
 650 6,3  |           there was heard a terrible clash behind it was the French
 651 3,4  |             prosperity to the lowest class, he organised numerous doles
 652 Pro,1|             the fifteenth century, a classic of the lighter sort, who
 653 10,3 |             streets of Rome, wearing classical costumes and riding in antique
 654 6,2  |             Marechal de Gie, Messire Claude de la Chatre de Guise, and
 655 14,3 |            tomb: ~ "VENDIT ALEXANDER CLAVES, ALTARIA, CHRISTUM:~ EMERAT
 656 4,4  |         limbs. ~Although Alfonso had clearly seen through the motives
 657 15,4 |          swift to anger, but open to clemency; so, when the duke came
 658 5,6  |            important in Rome, noble, cleric, or soldier, assembled around
 659 6,2  |             command of Engelbert der Cleves and de Larnay, the queen'
 660 1,1  |           motley moving carpet, were climbing up into the basilica, grouping
 661 5,5  |           ground; they all wore long cloaks adorned with shoulder-knots,
 662 2,2  |            be worthy of praise, on a closer inspection it was found
 663 8,2  |              the same, and a pair of clumsy shoes. Lastly, the guards
 664 8,4  |               nosegays of pearls and clusters of rubies. ~Lastly, bringing
 665 Pro,2|            their friend convulsively clutching in his arms a magnificent
 666 4,3  |            the Italian princes their co-operation in recovering the rights
 667 8,2  |          reclothed him in a dress of coarse white cloth which only reached
 668 5,4  |           soldiers, with short tight coats of various colours: they
 669 7,1  |            of money from the liberal coffers of Charles VIII. Now, scarcely
 670 8,3  |      marriage because he was already cogitating a second, between Caesar
 671 3,3  |            haw to envelop him in her coils when the fascination of
 672 14,2 |            two glasses. By a curious coincidence, the butler had just gone
 673 1,1  |         office that is, to get money coined in his name and bearing
 674 8,1  |           attempt at a new method of coining money was tried upon the
 675 1,1  |             the People's Gate to the Coliseum and from the Baths of Diocletian
 676 11,4 |     themselves, merely said to their colleague of France, by way of complimentary
 677 11,1 |              tax a veritable army of collectors was instituted, a certain
 678 1,1  |         explanation, either the fine colonnade of Bernini, or the dancing
 679 9,1  |             determined to attack the colossal abomination that was seated
 680 7,3  |              The duke unfastened it, colouring up with pleasure; and when
 681 15,1 |        moment Europe swayed, for the column which supported the vault
 682 11,4 |         poisoned; Antonio, bishop of Coma; Gian Battista Ferraro,
 683 10,1 |              19,000 men, who were to combine their forces with the Venetians,
 684 5,3  |           thereof with great joy and comfort. Among other matters, the
 685 3,4  |              they lived in much more comfortable and beautiful surroundings
 686 3,4  |           Vanazza was quite right in comforting Caesar. Indeed, although
 687 Pro,1|               like the statue of the Commandante, to knock at the door of
 688 2,1  |              guarded in one of their commanderies, in spite of the urgency
 689 8,3  |            obedience to the absolute commands of His Holiness that he
 690 5,2  |            The next day negotiations commenced; but everyone was out of
 691 13,5 |             never to meet again, had commended the care of his family to
 692 13,1 |              by Guglielma dei Pazzi, commissary of the Florentine Republic,
 693 6,4  |              family, saying he would commission them, in proof of their
 694 5,8  |              perjury he was about to commit, received him joyfully,
 695 Epi,2|        sacristan of St. Peter's were committing the sins of luxurious living
 696 5,2  |           secretary to the republic, commonly called the Scipio of Florence,
 697 5,1  |        France were making a terrible commotion at Florence. The magnificent
 698 5,8  |             rota, who was charged to communicate to the king the displeasure
 699 5,2  |              house by a lucky chance communicated with a convent of Franciscans;
 700 5,6  |         Angelo, thanks to a corridor communicating between the two palaces,
 701 9,1  | excommunicated monk would be refused communion and confession; and as when
 702 3,4  |            day. Further, there was a community of interests, and many people
 703 10,3 |          Alps and passed the Lake of Como, amid acclamations of joy
 704 5,7  |          hand, as though he were his companion-in-arms. Then Charles took a final
 705 12,4 |     Alexander, but the one could not compare in importance with the other;
 706 9,2  |           the piazza and entered the compartment reserved for them without
 707 13,3 |     sovereign pontiff, who shall not compel Cardinal Orsino to reside
 708 4,2  |   pronouncing on the justice of each competitor's pretensions; the continuance
 709 1,3  |              had no strength left to complain. ~The morning of the next
 710 8,3  |      signature of the brief they had complained of: so nothing was now in
 711 10,1 |   accordingly he brought forward his complaints at a tribunal established
 712 11,4 |       colleague of France, by way of complimentary address, "Sir, you are welcome";
 713 13,4 |           none the less hesitated to comply with his demand. Vitellozzo
 714 14,1 |           and called Contarella. Its composition is unknown. ~The liquid
 715 2,3  |            marches of Treviso, which comprehend the districts of Feltre,
 716 6,2  |            his divisions. ~The first comprised the van and a body of troops
 717 4,1  |             two important interests, compromised by the Duke of Milan's proposition,
 718 13,2 |      Vitellozzo, reproaching him for compromising his master with a view to
 719 12,1 |              he was quitting them on compulsion, he sold his retreat for
 720 4,2  |          Sancia, and the territories conceded to the Duke of Sandia, he
 721 4,2  |             therefore of the highest conceivable importance to Aragon just
 722 5,8  |           master of Naples, he might conceive the idea of conquering the
 723 6,4  |          enterprise compelled him to concentrate all his mental resources,
 724 5,8  |          busied himself with loftier concerns, bending all the force of
 725 14,1 |               he returned to Rome to concert with his father as to the
 726 5,1  |           dei Medici learnt that his concessions to the King of France were
 727 6,2  |             once more the methods of conciliation, and sent Commines, who,
 728 6,4  |   reinforcement, he was compelled to conclude a peace with Ludovico Sforza,
 729 5,4  |            to Charles the Bishops of Concordia and Terni, and his confessor,
 730 8,2  |       attorney, pronounced sentence, condemning the archbishop to the loss
 731 3,2  |            other path but that which conduces best to the service of God
 732 10,4 |      treasure was now exhausted. New confabulations had gone on between the
 733 13,2 |             time, each member of the confederacy openly proclaimed his revolt
 734 6,3  |               was in the centre, was conferring knighthood on those gentlemen
 735 9,3  |            when he declared that his confessions were the fault of his torturers,
 736 5,4  |         Concordia and Terni, and his confessor, Mansignore Graziano. They
 737 12,2 |            Gaeta, and to whom he had confidingly opened all his fortresses
 738 5,6  |              favours are: first, the confirmation of privleges already granted
 739 5,8  |        embedded in the very soil, by confirming their privileges and augmenting
 740 5,1  |           upon it as simply a mortal conflict. So the news of these two
 741 4,1  |            of Ferdinand's promise to conform to the plan he had invented,
 742 13,3 |        destruction of any States not conforming thereto. ~ "(Signed) CAESAR,
 743 13,3 |       resentment of the same; and in conformity with the aforesaid peace
 744 7,1  |          journey, and marched out to confront him: the two armies met
 745 10,2 |             to go back to Caesar and congratulate him on his victory; but
 746 13,5 |           detachment of cavalry, who congratulated himself on the happy chance
 747 9,2  |             and bade farewell to his congregation in a sermon full of strength
 748 9,3  |    prophecies were nothing more than conjectures. It is true that, so soon
 749 10,3 |              of this infringement of conjugal duty had been angry enough
 750 12,2 |          receive into his fortresses conquerors and masters instead of allies.
 751 10,4 |             men, he first surrounded Conrads house, and then entered
 752 3,4  |          tranquil, was instinctively conscious that her calm was nothing
 753 2,2  |              impetuosity than on any consciousness of genius: he was an enemy
 754 9,1  |             the art of this world to consecrate his brush utterly and entirely
 755 11,4 |          well knew what would be its consequences; for instead of attempting
 756 13,5 |            himself, and you, and the consequent disappearance of all seeds
 757 11,5 |           republic, which could not, considering their war with the Turks,
 758 1,1  |          comes to take his place and consign him to his final tomb; lastly,
 759 13,5 |             s soldiers had just been consigned, and they, suddenly surprised
 760 10,4 |           for, while the French were consolidating their power in Milanese
 761 13,3 |            ready to sign a treaty in consonance with their wishes so long
 762 2,2  |               full of self-will, and consorting rather with fools than with
 763 13,1 |              had arrested two of the conspirators, whereupon the others, who
 764 5,2  |       Florence into a great state of consternation; but the Florentines were
 765 1,1  |        constantly elected her kings, consuls, tribunes, emperors, and
 766 11,2 |             was thought of no use to consult Lucrezia in this affair,
 767 5,1  |              whom Piero had not even consulted when he took action as he
 768 13,5 |          cardinal's account-book. On consulting this book, the pope found
 769 1,2  |          meat, and each chicken will contain a deed of gift duly drawn
 770 9,1  |              they died they would be contaminated with heresy, in consequence
 771 14,1 |           taste of sugar, and called Contarella. Its composition is unknown. ~
 772 Pro,1|      penances, he soon passed out of contemplation into ecstasy, and began
 773 6,1  |            they had conceived such a contempt for their enemy by their
 774 13,3 |             the King of France; they contented themselves with taking the
 775 9,3  |            unwilling to let go their contention. Savonarola remained inflexible,
 776 15,2 |         fight; and after an exciting contest, Caesar, who was numerically
 777 5,1  |          they were to the chivalrous contests of the fifteenth century,
 778 2,2  |           which formed a circle more contiguous to Rome, and whose business
 779 7,2  |           who is the man whom I find continually blocking the path of my
 780 3,1  |              which he begged for the continuation of his favours, and wished
 781 4,3  |             the name he bears. But," continues the same historian, "if
 782 4,2  |           her father Maximilian, and contracted a marriage with Anne of
 783 3,2  |               extol his beauty. This contradiction is due to the fact that
 784 11,1 |             few contusions. ~The two contradictory reports of the sudden death
 785 10,1 |               who had promised him a contribution of 400 lances, to make up
 786 3,3  |              in this way only did we contrive to escape the storm which
 787 14,3 |             marching on in front and controlling them. ~Thus he was forced
 788 12,1 |             get ready, so soon as he conveniently could, to follow him with
 789 13,4 |             of this treaty. ~But the convention brought to the confederates
 790 13,3 |        signed with him the following conventions which only needed ratification
 791 3,1  |             of this pious cardinal's conversion. ~It proved a lucky thing
 792 Epi,2|            what I saw, it is my firm conviction that your pope, and of course
 793 9,2  |             all men of the strongest convictions, felt no doubt as to the
 794 5,5  |         arose anew the question of a convocation to prove Alexander's simony
 795 13,2 |              in arms. ~So Vitellozzo convoked at Maggione all whose lives
 796 Pro,2|              on his bed, shaken by a convulsive movement, and questioned
 797 Pro,2|               and found their friend convulsively clutching in his arms a
 798 9,1  |           this pile were burned many copies of Boccaccio and of Margante
 799 14,3 |           hot blankets, where, after copious perspirations, he almost
 800 13,2 |       frontier of Tuscany received a copy of the treaty signed between
 801 15,2 |              made known, Gonzalvo di Cordovo proclaimed to the sound
 802 Epi,2|     wonderfully well received by his coreligionists; and after staying there
 803 2,3  |             the islands of Zante and Corfu; in Greece, Lepanto and
 804 4,5  |            and even procured its own corn from neighbouring provinces;
 805 11,4 |            of Valentinois; and Marco Cornaro, a Venetian noble, in whose
 806 7,3  |           scarcely had he turned the corner of the Jewish Ghetto, when
 807 10,1 |         Voghiera, Castelnuovo, Ponte Corona, Tartone, and Alessandria,
 808 2,3  |        Patras; in the Morea, Morone, Corone, Neapolis, and Argos; lastly,
 809 5,8  |              price. This Don Michele Correglia, who earned his celebrity
 810 13,1 |            at Pesaro, by Don Michele Correglio, who, though he had left
 811 3,4  |              a great contrast to the corruption of the last reign, in the
 812 5,2  |            to him the figure of Luca Corsini standing at the gate, sword
 813 12,1 |          Sassetta and Piero di Gamba Corti, and as soon as the conquest
 814 10,4 |        bastards named Alessandro and Cortino, and of Francesco, son of
 815 13,1 |      Severino, Castiglione, Aretino, Cortone, and the other towns of
 816 9,1  |               harps, cards and dice, cosmetics and perfumes in a word,
 817 12,4 |          diamonds, of workmanship as costly as their material; these
 818 7,2  |              to be rid of him at all costs. So he ordered the chief
 819 4,5  |              him half reclining on a couch, pale and emaciated, some
 820 4,3  |             caught a severe cold and cough on his return from the hunting
 821 12,1 |            visit had been due to the counsels of the Mariscotti; then,
 822 3,2  |      received Caesar with a gracious countenance; still, he did not allow
 823 3,4  |         destined to become for other countries what America was for Spain,
 824 3,1  |              the noble Spaniard as a countryman and a friend; and he, who
 825 4,2  |    principality of Squillace and the county of Cariati, with an income
 826 8,4  |           mounted on a handsome tall courser, very richly harnessed,
 827 15,2 |            chose. Accordingly he was courted both by the Spanish and
 828 4,5  |            King of France were first cousins, sons of two sisters of
 829 8,1  |             Caesar were beginning to covet the fortunes of those very
 830 16,2 |             took to their heels like cowards, and abandoned their leader. ~
 831 9,3  |            changed shirt, dress, and cowl. Then, when the Franciscans
 832 1,1  |            building, a ruin from its cradle, arose the Vatican, a splendid
 833 15,2 |          they had hoped to obtain by craft; and, having surprised the
 834 9,3  |          Savonarala's entrance, soon crashed before the vehement onset
 835 3,4  |             and designing: she had a craving for pleasure, admiration,
 836 14,1 |             Feast of St. Peter's, to create nine cardinals. What he
 837 11,3 |              recent festivities, the creation of twelve new cardinals
 838 11,5 |      somewhere, and in order to give credence to this story, he sent out
 839 Epi,1|            religion; whereas his own creed, it was very plain, was
 840 2,3  |       provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Crema, Verona, Vicenza, and Padua;
 841 8,4  |              name the restoration of Cremona and Ghiera d'Adda when he
 842 4,5  |              that some of Columbus's crew who were at Genoa or thereabouts
 843 11,5 |              lies, and his loose and criminal life has made him unworthy
 844 7,4  |     presentiments and by the raven's croak of the 'vox populi', let
 845 5,5  |             had their tails and ears cropped according to the French
 846 7,3  |             at my side in stead of a crosier in my hand when the King
 847 9,2  |              and heath, supported by cross-bars of the very driest wood
 848 6,2  |          some Scots, and two hundred cross-bowmen an horseback, with French
 849 8,4  |             in yellow satin with red crossbars; and lastly another ten,
 850 9,2  |           Dominican monks, their red crosses in their hands, marched
 851 9,2  |        themselves. The piazza was so crowded that the people overflowed
 852 4,5  |        brought over this strange and cruel complaint that counter balanced
 853 6,3  |          nothing to do but unite and crush him and his horse together;
 854 6,2  |        archers besides, led by M. de Crussol. ~Lastly, the third division,
 855 9,1  |            holy city for eight days, crying, "Woe to Jerusalem!" and
 856 9,2  |              as it was enclosed in a crystal tabernacle. Fra Domenico
 857 8,4  |             horse was covered with a cuirass in a pattern of golden foliage
 858 5,4  |           battalion wore helmets and cuirasses which protected the head
 859 Pro,1|           subjugating the one was as culpable as Pope Innocent VIII in
 860 11,5 |             ambassador to pursue the culprits and promising that he would
 861 2,3  |             upon duplicity. He had a cultivated mind, and had studied the
 862 5,5  |               After the cannons came culverins sixteen feet long, and then
 863 14,1 |           having received a poisoned cup from the hands of the pope. ~
 864 2,2  |            Forgetfulness is the best cure for the losses we suffer.
 865 11,3 |            thought to please them by curing Alexander's son-in-law,
 866 1,3  |           like a tempest into cries, curses, howls, threatening to tear
 867 Pro,1|            left by one door than the curtain of the other was raised,
 868 Epi,1|            merchant uses to seduce a customer, the superiority of the
 869 2,1  |               the unhappy young man, cynosure of so many interested eyes,
 870 2,3  |            Candia and the kingdom of Cyprus. ~Thus from the mouth of
 871 4,2  |         Goffreda, his third son, and Dada Sancia, Alfonso's illegitimate
 872 1,3  |          half-past eight struck, the daily smoke reappeared at the
 873 11,4 |            to come; and he fled into Dalmatia. Malatesta, lord of Rimini,
 874 1,1  |        towers above the court of St. Damasius; still, it was truly the
 875 Epi,2|             with his godson to Notre Dame de Paris, where he prayed
 876 Epi,2|              the Jew exclaimed, "God damn them all! I never once succeeded
 877 9,2  |          beside his own into eternal damnation. ~The proposition made by
 878 16,2 |            doublet, and a cold sweat damped his brow; either he had
 879 3,4  |           arrange a marriage between Dana Sancia, his illegitimate
 880 12,4 |          country and ordered them to dance their national dances before
 881 12,4 |              rooms, and after supper danced with the equerries and servants,
 882 12,4 |         others were given now to the dancers who were most daring and
 883 6,4  |            quailing before imaginary dangers, put a stop to this enthusiasm,
 884 3,4  |              by no means behindhand: Dante, Giotto, Brunelleschi, and
 885 7,4  |           next appeared one man on a dapple-grey horse, which was carrying
 886 1,2  |             another the windows were darkened; at last, when ten o'clock
 887 9,3  |            last reached the convent, dashing like an angry sea against
 888 5,6  |           queen his wife, and to the dauphin his son; secondly, the investiture,
 889 7,4  |           surprised by the coming of daylight in the midst of an amorous
 890 7,2  |            to disguise myself in the daytime in a cardinal's robe and
 891 11,1 |         whereupon he was discovered, dazed with the blow, and injured,
 892 4,1  |             counted on his riches to dazzle the eye. But the eloquence
 893 12,4 |              garments, afterwards in dazzling draperies; when supper was
 894 6,4  |              whom he regarded as his deadliest foe. So, feeling that he
 895 Epi,2|          holy religion; this is why, deaf as you found me to your
 896 12,4 |            to scatter abroad a great deal of money, and so to make
 897 11,5 |          else a punishment should be dealt out proportioned to the
 898 5,8  |              was Monsignore Porcari, dean of the rota, who was charged
 899 11,5 |       noblest part in my honour. The dearest thing I possessed, my wife,
 900 4,2  |        Ferdinand was paying somewhat dearly for a simple promise; but
 901 1,1  |  self-indulgence, just died, after a death-struggle during which, if the journal
 902 Pro,1|            pale face took a yet more deathlike tinge, while at the same
 903 10,2 |           own house. After these two deaths, which both occurred so
 904 5,6  |            days all his demands were debated and settled to his satisfaction.
 905 9,1  |            Peter's holy throne; each debauch, each fresh crime that lifted
 906 8,1  |              courtesan to orgies and debauchery, had never been more the
 907 13,5 |              due to the cardinal, no debtor's name being mentioned;
 908 14,3 |            the report of Alexander's decease could spread about the town,
 909 3,2  |              refuse to arouse by any deceit the stern rigour of His
 910 10,4 |          when the preparations for a decisive engagement were being made
 911 1,1  |          hour when the day begins to decline great cries went up from
 912 14,3 |             in the evening, when the declining day adds so deep a melancholy
 913 14,3 |     frightful appearance was added a decomposition so great that, although
 914 4,3  |           following day were no less decorous and becoming to the spirit
 915 2,3  |         formed this plan; but Heaven decreed otherwise. ~As to the most
 916 Pro,1|             attacked by a severe and deep-seated fever, to which was added
 917 3,3  |             was only the fear of the deer for the hunter; but with
 918 8,4  |            and his actions. ~But, in default of the haughty lady of Aragon,
 919 Pro,1|           was both harsh and weak, a defective pronunciation, and above
 920 Pro,1|          first to battle against the defects of a voice that was both
 921 11,4 |          courage and devotion of her defenders, could not have held out
 922 3,2  |           gates of the city when the deference shown to him gave instant
 923 6,2  |           the answer to Commines was deferred until the following day,
 924 8,3  |         accorded him. The cardinals, deferring to Caesar's wishes, gave
 925 6,4  |           was a touch of mockery and defiance, Charles was none the less
 926 14,2 |   constitution, which seemed to have defied old age, was strong enough
 927 13,4 |           the infantry: which latter defiled, crossed the bridge, and
 928 5,3  |            same, Alexander formed no definite plan, resolved on acting
 929 5,8  |            incur later on were to be defrayed by all in equal shares. ~
 930 8,2  |              ecclesiastical offices, degradation from his orders, and confiscation
 931 9,3  |              the place of execution, degraded of their orders by the ecclesiastical
 932 2,3  |           well within the prohibited degrees. His father, Alfonso of
 933 5,2  |           Medici or whether he would delegate his authority to the Signoria:
 934 5,6  |              an affair that required deliberation in a council of cardinals,
 935 5,8  |           always been present at the deliberations, although the Christian
 936 11,2 |          holding in his right a long delicate Aragon sword. It was high
 937 13,5 |             good news. The cardinal, delighted at this increase of favour,
 938 9,1  |           amnesty for all crimes and delinquencies committed under other governments;
 939 13,1 |              Arezzo to get that town delivered into his hands. But the
 940 11,3 |            the chapel of Santa Maria delle Febbre. ~Lucrezia arrived
 941 4,3  |            approached the Venetians, demanding aid and counsel for the
 942 9,1  |        republic should return to her democratic principles, and religion
 943 7,1  |      accepted his conditions without demur; during the interval having
 944 9,2  |              All Florence was like a den of madmen; everyone wanted
 945 7,4  |             deed, he had not gone to denounce it to the governor. But
 946 9,3  |     Arrabbiati party, who had always denounced him as a liar and a hypocrite.
 947 9,1  |             paint out to the people, denouncing it as the off spring of
 948 1,1  |          windows, so numerous and so densely packed that one might have
 949 11,5 |          mark of utter astonishment, denying that he had been in any
 950 6,4  |             pontifical authority, to depart out of Italy with his army,
 951 Pro,1|              read in the face of his departing friend, was the famous Pico
 952 7,3  |             of execution, they would depend on circumstances, and each
 953 10,4 |       fulfilment of this promise was dependent on the doubtful issue of
 954 8,4  |       conspicuous weaknesses, one as deplorable as the other: the first
 955 3,2  |             end of our life we shall deplore the faults which have brought
 956 12,2 |              was to declare Frederic deposed from the throne of Naples.
 957 16,2 |               The bankers denied the deposit. ~Caesar was at the mercy
 958 6,1  |             Rome three days, utterly depressed because the pope had refused
 959 Pro,1|    pronunciation, and above all, the depression of his physical powers,
 960 4,1  |            neutralise its effects by depriving Ludovico Sforza of his regency,
 961 3,3  |       Roderigo to sensuality. In the depth of her heart she relied
 962 4,2  |              when his plan about the deputation was refused, and that the
 963 6,2  |             the command of Engelbert der Cleves and de Larnay, the
 964 9,3  |          enthusiasm was changed into derision. They were ignorant from
 965 9,3  |            Then the outcry, at first derisive, became menacing: Savonarola,
 966 6,3  |           one equerry called Antoine des Ambus, and his standard-bearer. "
 967 Pro,2|         whereon the barbarians shall descend from the mountains, the
 968 15,3 |         family, all whose legitimate descendants had been massacred by Borgia. ~
 969 2,2  |        political giants whom we have described to make encroachments with
 970 3,4  |             Blando, writing in 1450, describes Ostia as being merely less
 971 3,2  |          have left utterly different descriptions; for same have painted him
 972 3,4  |              converted into a barren desert by the wars of the Colonna
 973 10,4 |            the news of this cowardly desertion, he supposed that his cause
 974 3,4  |             by nature, ambitious and designing: she had a craving for pleasure,
 975 4,5  |           not the poor young man was desirous of pouring out a complaint
 976 10,1 |          victories, Ludovico Sforza, despairing of holding out in his capital,
 977 10,2 |            cousin, charging him with despatches for the pope, and lavishing
 978 2,2  |               This means ~"It is the destiny of Austria to rule over
 979 2,2  |          first flight from the nest, destitute of both sense and money,
 980 10,4 |          years in solitude and utter destitution, and there died, cursing
 981 3,3  |       utterly unexpected, so utterly destructive at one fell blow to his
 982 11,4 |         there was nothing further to detain the Duke of Valentinois
 983 10,4 |              hoped they might escape detection in the Swiss ranks. ~Scarcely
 984 16,2 |             XII; but during Caesar's detention in the castle of Medina
 985 10,3 |          death served the purpose of determining a point of law hitherto
 986 15,2 |       Pancracio, they had made along detour and blocked Caesar's way;
 987 5,7  |         observe the signs of strange devastation. The street was scattered
 988 9,3  |     impatient: their impatience soon developed into loud murmurs, which
 989 7,4  |             and State combined could devise for the funeral of the son
 990 5,3  |           your envoy Giorgio we have devised a scheme most conducive
 991 10,3 |           property should henceforth devolve upon him. ~But Caesar was
 992 5,6  |       accustomed to promise and vow, devoting himself and all his strength
 993 11,3 |             been performed with such dexterity, that it was received not
 994 8,3  |              the sacred order of the diaconate; but feeling that in his
 995 2,1  |             men of genius, Bartolome Diaz and Christopher Columbus,
 996 9,1  |              lutes, harps, cards and dice, cosmetics and perfumes
 997 Pro,2|         should bring you the head of Dietisalvi, Nerone Nigi, Angelo Antinori,
 998 10,3 |          Roman barons, and municipal dignitaries to make procession with
 999 1,2  |         these last groups insensibly diminished; for half-past nine had
1000 Epi,1|           very plain, was so quickly diminishing that it would soon disappear