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1001 16,1 | that Caesar should not only dine but also breakfast with
1002 5,7 | as we said before, was dining with him, and round the
1003 1,1 | Coliseum and from the Baths of Diocletian to the castle of Sant' Angelo,
1004 16,2 | as the model of ability, diplomacy, and courage. ~As to Lucrezia,
1005 4,1 | the fancy to avenge the disasters of Nicapolis and Mansourah.
1006 4,5 | both of which were more disastrous than the impediments offered
1007 5,4 | design, which could not be discerned by those around him. In
1008 3,2 | fruits, and we desire to discharge to the full this mighty
1009 7,4 | the sewers of the town are discharged into the Tiber, the horseman
1010 14,3 | the pall which covered it, disclosed the corpse, and everyone
1011 11,4 | preparations Caesar was not greatly disconcerted; he commanded a magnificent
1012 5,8 | league was all the more disconcerting for Charles, because of
1013 5,8 | open its gates, being more discontented with the new rule than the
1014 1,1 | with bursts of laughter, a discordant murmur of threats and raillery,
1015 5,3 | sacrifice in the way of discount. All the same, Alexander
1016 9,1 | any who should hear the discourses of the excommunicated monk
1017 2,1 | ancient world and their discoveries in the new, acquired an
1018 2,2 | with no measure and no discrimination. He was sometimes inflexible
1019 13,4 | to distrust him, and to discuss through intermediaries alone
1020 13,4 | but after the preliminary discussions as to the right course to
1021 5,3 | brother, just as they were disembarking at Sinigaglia. They were
1022 4,1 | overmastered his own. He could not disentangle the real motives that had
1023 13,1 | and fled incontinently, disguised as a peasant; thus in less
1024 3,1 | courage, he was as much disgusted with this profession as
1025 5,3 | the Neapolitan troops pass disheartened through Rome, to rally their
1026 5,7 | Caesar, she rose, pale and dishevelled, and pointing to the desolation
1027 5,1 | nobility, who considered it a dishonourable thing to concern oneself
1028 10,3 | some difficulty about being disinherited, Alexander issued a brief;
1029 5,8 | cardinal had every one of them dismissed, with orders to quit Rome
1030 11,2 | his mother, while Caesar, dismounting, retired in his turn, to
1031 10,4 | respect for their country to disobey its decree, and that they
1032 3,3 | our affection will wink at disorderly life, then you will very
1033 3,1 | weight of his past sins, disparaging the riches which he had
1034 11,4 | were passed in games and displays of horsemanship, the nights
1035 5,1 | Piero found it no harder to dispose of money than of fortresses,
1036 12,2 | side of Calabria. ~These dispositions were scarcely made when
1037 4,3 | the house that was to be dispossessed. Then he represented to
1038 6,4 | confiscated, without also dispossessing the owners, he made overtures
1039 2,2 | glance and all his limbs were disproportionate with one another, he had
1040 13,2 | The news from Naples was disquieting; serious differences had
1041 13,5 | all seeds of trouble and dissension likely to waste Italy: this
1042 3,2 | his election he could not dissimulate his joy; indeed, on hearing
1043 11,2 | changed in their perpetual dissimulation towards him, he was beginning
1044 3,1 | passed: Report said the dissipations were of so dissolute a character
1045 8,4 | secondly, his spiritual aid to dissolve his marriage with Jeanne,
1046 8,4 | grateful to the pope for dissolving his marriage with Jeanne
1047 3,1 | result was that his first distinctions were gained in the law,
1048 4,2 | of being left out in the distribution of his father's favours. ~
1049 2,3 | Treviso, which comprehend the districts of Feltre, Belluno, Cadore,
1050 13,1 | and who had no reason for distrusting Caesar, did not dare refuse.
1051 14,1 | with his own affairs to disturb himself about his allies.
1052 14,3 | instantly causing so great a disturbance in the funeral cortege that
1053 8,1 | the right of uniting and disuniting. There was no need to trouble
1054 12,4 | caps, and laces; then new diversions took the place of these." ~
1055 6,2 | captains, thus arranged his divisions. ~The first comprised the
1056 9,2 | again, to prove that his doctrine was true, promising to declare
1057 5,2 | had he read a third of the document when the discussion began
1058 8,4 | advanced on the day when Caesar doffed his scarlet and donned a
1059 3,4 | class, he organised numerous doles to be paid out of his private
1060 10,1 | were despoiled of their domains, which would again become
1061 Pro,2| omens only too certain: the dome of the church of Santa Regarata
1062 5,6 | each to retire to his own domicile. ~The king remained eight
1063 1,3 | given on this occasion, the dominant character was much more
1064 9,3 | of Venice, General of the Dominicans, and Francesco Ramolini,
1065 3,4 | Giotto, Brunelleschi, and Donatello were dead, but Ariosto,
1066 4,2 | history for a bastard's donning the scarlet, the pope hunted
1067 6,4 | their march to Borgo San Donnino. ~While this was going on,
1068 4,5 | leave: John Galeazzo was doomed. ~Two days after, Charles
1069 Pro,2| God will forgive you for dooming to the scaffold or the gibbet
1070 4,5 | prepared in the Spinola and Doria palaces. Lastly, he urged
1071 11,5 | had been in vain. No one doubted that Caesar was the culprit,
1072 5,8 | silver plate; and never doubting that the cargo of the others
1073 Epi,1| baptize you? If you have any doubts concerning the faith I have
1074 12,2 | pronounced the sentence of his downfall, he understood that all
1075 Epi,2| that all from the pope downward to the lowest sacristan
1076 3,1 | had not thus interposed to drag him forcibly away. Roderigo
1077 15,4 | which he embarked for Monte Dragone, and thence gained Naples.
1078 2,1 | Constantine, Palaeologos Dragozes, besieged by three hundred
1079 14,2 | out this wine, which both drank, little thinking that it
1080 12,4 | afterwards in dazzling draperies; when supper was over, the
1081 Epi,1| who did a great trade in drapery, and was connected in business
1082 Pro,1| had found at last that the draughts containing dissolved pearls
1083 14,2 | the cabinet, and in the drawer indicated found the gold
1084 9,3 | succumbed once more to the dreadful pain, and once more retracted.
1085 3,2 | His ambition had sometimes dreamed of such good fortune, yet
1086 12,3 | duchies. ~But Alexander was dreaming of yet another addition
1087 1,2 | two women to dream golden dreams of their future greatness. ~ ~
1088 9,2 | theatre every actor has his dressing-room; but in this instance the
1089 9,2 | by cross-bars of the very driest wood that could be found.
1090 14,1 | reserved for the pope's drinking. ~[The poison of the Borgias,
1091 1,1 | by a strange fever which drives everyone to the Vatican
1092 5,8 | agreement as to the necessity of driving out Charles VIII, not only
1093 10,4 | sound of the trumpet and drum. The war-cry of Louis, France,
1094 Epi,2| that they were gluttons and drunkards, so much so that they were
1095 3,3 | giddy and staggering like a drunken man, and at once leaving
1096 5,6 | short and friendly reply, dubbing him the Church's eldest
1097 9,2 | ordered that the strange duel should take place only between
1098 10,1 | and now they paid annual dues, for which they received
1099 13,5 | two trenches that had been dug beforehand. ~The two others
1100 8,2 | into one of the deepest dungeons of the castle of Sant' Angelo,
1101 9,1 | forth to the Piazza of the Duoma, bringing these works of
1102 9,2 | observed an the roof of the Duomo and on the tap of the Campanile. ~ ~ ~
1103 12,2 | pretensions, through the house of Duras, to the throne of Naples
1104 1,1 | obliged to fulfil all the duties of his office that is, to
1105 1,3 | roasted by the sun, these dwellers in shade and idleness, that
1106 11,1 | the rooms of his ordinary dwelling with Cardinal Capuano and
1107 5,5 | towards the Holy Father's dwelling-place; but the pope was unmoved
1108 Pro,2| father," replied Lorenzo eagerly, "I feel this faith in the
1109 1,2 | being recognised, for in his eagerness the recipient of this nocturnal
1110 9,2 | he had never proposed the earlier challenge, he hesitated
1111 4,5 | off necklaces, rings, and earrings. Charles VIII gave them
1112 4,2 | centre of the impending earthquake, and before Italy had any
1113 Pro,2| though to reflect more at his ease; then, after a moment's
1114 5,7 | remains of a chest made of ebony all inlaid with ivory and
1115 8,4 | the chiefs of the state ecclesiastic. ~Next came two drums, one
1116 6,3 | the other two arranged in echelon to support each other, the
1117 15,2 | a first-rate strategist, echelonned his retreat so skilfully
1118 5,2 | had changed: there was no echo to the cry, and when the
1119 9,3 | times appeared to him in his ecstasies and revealed the things
1120 Pro,1| out of contemplation into ecstasy, and began to feel in himself
1121 8,4 | not laced with gold and edged with pearls. His horse was
1122 5,4 | short swords, with steel edges like those of the ancient
1123 3,2 | deeds that we shall do may efface the shameful recollection
1124 9,1 | unjust excommunication had no efficacy, and that the person excommunicated
1125 10,4 | the Swiss to make one last effort, promising them not only
1126 10,2 | visit: he was received with effusion and apparently the greatest
1127 1,1 | dancing fountains, or that Egyptian obelisk which, according
1128 12,3 | before he had attained his eighteenth birthday. ~Frederic's daughter
1129 9,2 | height, ten in width, and eighty feet long. This scaffolding
1130 5,2 | independence to the town which eighty-seven years ago had fallen under
1131 8,2 | captive seated, leaning his elbows on a table, and he took
1132 11,3 | Vatican. Alfonso made an elegant toilet, and about ten o'
1133 8,4 | in raised gold cloth; so elegantly dressed were these two children,
1134 10,2 | home from supping with Dan Elisio Pignatelli. One of the men
1135 9,1 | pulpit; but Savonarola had eluded this prohibition by making
1136 14,1 | Francesco Boris, bishop of Elva, patriarch of Constantinople,
1137 4,5 | reclining on a couch, pale and emaciated, some said in consequence
1138 1,1 | him, to have the corpse embalmed, to lower the coffin after
1139 15,4 | as on the occasion of his embarking on the pope's vessel that
1140 5,8 | vassals, whose roots would be embedded in the very soil, by confirming
1141 15,1 | as the pope had had them embellished and fortified. ~Caesar was
1142 5,5 | arms of their chief were emblazoned. ~At last came the young
1143 3,2 | had risen from his seat to embrace him the pope assumed a grave
1144 5,6 | would not suffer this, and, embracing once more, they separated,
1145 11,5 | their war with the Turks, be embroiled with the pope, forbade Caracciuala
1146 14,3 | CLAVES, ALTARIA, CHRISTUM:~ EMERAT ILLE PRIUS, VENDERE JUKE
1147 1,3 | you a great joy: the most Eminent and most Reverend Signor
1148 10,2 | and its duchy, with all emoluments, rights, and revenues accruing
1149 11,1 | often used. ~The first he employed was to spread a report that
1150 3,4 | irreproachable character, empowered to prosecute all nocturnal
1151 8,4 | hours, he took his leave, to enable him to prepare the splendid
1152 9,2 | cause. His enemies were enchanted at the thought of the heretic
1153 11,5 | house was gone, as though by enchantment, and the ploughshare had
1154 13,1 | of invasion which was to encircle Florence in a network of
1155 5,2 | were to men who so far had encountered no single obstacle, that
1156 9,1 | was favouring Alexander's encroaching policy, when he was compelled
1157 2,2 | we have described to make encroachments with a view to an attack,
1158 Epi,2| all their talents, art, endeavours, to banish the Christian
1159 1,1 | there were loud cries for an energetic hand which should make all
1160 11,5 | delay, as a proof of the energy wherewith the noble tribunal
1161 Pro,2| wherein, before they were enervated by your luxuries, they had
1162 4,4 | round about Rome, and was to enforce obedience from the Colonnas.
1163 13,3 | to this day, both parties engaging to preserve no resentment
1164 6,2 | Swiss, under the command of Engelbert der Cleves and de Larnay,
1165 4,2 | expenses of the war with England. ~By the treaty of Barcelona,
1166 5,5 | arrows from a distance like English archers. They were a great
1167 3,3 | Campo dei Fiori, and there enjoying perfect liberty. ~In the
1168 14,3 | tongue was so monstrously enlarged that it filled the whole
1169 13,3 | put an end to differences, enmities, misunderstandings, and
1170 11,1 | tribune of benedictions, a enormous piece of iron broke off
1171 4,5 | for 20,000 ducats. Then, enriched by this money, he resumed
1172 10,3 | by lictors, soldiers, and ensign-bearers, who carried banners whereon
1173 5,4 | their march, drums beating, ensigns unfurled. It was composed,
1174 9,1 | who accused the Medici of enslaving the fatherland and the Borgias
1175 10,4 | first came into his head of enticing the French into Italy. ~
1176 4,5 | John Galeazzo, and came to entreat his cousin to do nothing
1177 11,5 | out the French ambassador, entreating him to join with them and
1178 2,1 | out of Granada, their last entrenchment; while two men of genius,
1179 11,4 | of a few days busy with entrenchments, the breach became practicable,
1180 3,3 | a snake, she knew haw to envelop him in her coils when the
1181 11,4 | victor which might have been envied by the Sultan of Egypt or
1182 9,3 | a psalm, and the flames enwrapped them on all sides with a
1183 1,3 | of flame, the following epigram was read, amid the acclamation
1184 1,3 | pleasantries and prophetic epigrams on the name of Alexander,
1185 Epi | Epilogue~
1186 5,3 | Greeks of Macedonia and Epirus; and therefore he could
1187 9,1 | together gave orders to the episcopal vicar to leave Florence
1188 4,3 | Peter are wont to chant the Epistle and Gospel, sat Lucrezia
1189 14,3 | The next morning this epitaph was found inscribed upon
1190 5,8 | addition to this, to levy and equip 4000 infantry in the six
1191 7,2 | fine appearance and noble equipment. From this moment Cardinal
1192 11,1 | the Jews into paying an equivalent sum: both bulls contained
1193 1,3 | ancient story~ At home and o'er the world victorious trod;~
1194 5,2 | following him with arms erect, and then went down to the
1195 3,2 | face was covered with an eruption which, so long as it lasted,
1196 8,4 | caparisoned in red, adorned with escutcheons bearing the duke's arms,
1197 2,2 | these five words ~ "AUSTRIAE EST IMPERARE ORBI UNIVERSO." ~
1198 3,3 | incessantly though he toiled to establish our fortunes, scarcely had
1199 6,4 | of Naples, while he was establishing himself more firmly upon
1200 8,4 | founded by Louis XI, and esteemed at this period as the highest
1201 7,1 | prisoner, the Duke of Urbino, estimating his worth at 40,000 ducats
1202 13,3 | whom one might have been estranged a few days because of some
1203 4,2 | Brittany. ~By the treaty of Etaples, on the 3rd of November,
1204 6,1 | lieutenant in Calabria; Etienne de Vese, commander at Gaeta;
1205 1,3 | completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed
1206 9,2 | just celebrated the Holy Eucharist, and holding in his hand
1207 3,4 | AEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides had come (thanks to the
1208 2,2 | we said before, to become European Powers, let us turn our
1209 10,2 | forces on the borders of the Euza, and marched at once to
1210 13,2 | been calumniated in the evacuation of the conquered towns.
1211 12,4 | calls to mind the Roman evenings in the days of Tiberius,
1212 8,1 | second in command it was soon evident to the Roman people that
1213 6,2 | experience nothing of the evils of defeat. This want of
1214 5,1 | so much perturbation was evinced that Piero dei Medici, bent
1215 11,5 | befitting a young prince, and evincing before the eyes of all the
1216 1,3 | smoke rose again as usual, evoking laughter and murmuring,
1217 8,4 | presented himself before the ex-cardinal on his arrival at Rome,
1218 11,5 | accordingly repaired to the exact spot and began to procure
1219 4,1 | concluded when Charles VIII, who exaggerated its advantages, began to
1220 3,2 | pleased the Divine goodness to exalt us. This joy of yours is
1221 1,2 | has bribed the bishop who examines it: to-morrow is a feast-day;
1222 10,1 | Alexander, scrupulously examining the actions and behaviour
1223 7,2 | favour to his elder brother exasperated Caesar, although he was
1224 15,2 | awaiting him in numbers exceeding his own by at least one-half. ~
1225 6,4 | Holiness; ~(3) That he was exceedingly surprised that the pope
1226 13,3 | for any cause whatsoever, excepting always nevertheless the
1227 11,5 | streets, bearing torches, and exclaiming, "Long live Alexander! Long
1228 11,5 | Then, seeing that neither excommunications nor assaults could help
1229 11,5 | Valentinois was making one of his excursions in the neighbourhood of
1230 6,4 | new bond of friendship, to execute the order given against
1231 2,2 | 1483. Louis by dint of executions, had tranquillised his kingdom
1232 Epi,2| religion, that after leading an exemplary life he died in the full
1233 2,1 | which they were destined to exert in the future over the secondary
1234 6,4 | for three months, dying of exhaustion on the 7th of September
1235 4,3 | whose solemn duty it is to exhibit in every act the sanctity
1236 4,2 | Medici's desire to make an exhibition of his magnificent jewels,
1237 8,1 | Frederic authorised the exhumation of D'jem's body, which,
1238 1,1 | magnificent chapels did not exist, nor the twelve great halls,
1239 15,2 | so as to guard all its exits. Now the Orsini, resolved
1240 11,1 | Jubilee; the journey by this expedient was rendered unnecessary,
1241 7,2 | he kept for his nocturnal expeditions, so Michelotto felt no surprise
1242 5,4 | prince who acted in such expeditious fashion as this. Alexander
1243 Epi,2| the care and trouble they expend to arrive at this end, I
1244 7,1 | army would very soon be expended and his army would disappear
1245 5,2 | an opposition that he was experiencing for the first time in his
1246 12,1 | they might by their death expiate that of Paolo Vitelli, unjustly
1247 13,2 | throats to be cut in the expiation of a mistake: he was a buffalo
1248 13,2 | behalf of Louis XII, not only explaining the danger they themselves
1249 15,1 | least spark might cause to explode: they summoned the ambassadors
1250 7,4 | fellows I had first seen exploring were holding him up by the
1251 11,2 | some of them containing explosives, which took fire, and irritated
1252 15,3 | accept the places, afraid of exposing himself to the temptation
1253 8,3 | with a view to complete exposure before the eyes of all.
1254 Epi,1| concerning the faith I have expounded, where better than here
1255 9,1 | beginning of the year 1498. ~The expulsion of Leonard's dei Medici
1256 6,1 | was a little wood which extended from the enemy's army to
1257 1,3 | trod;~ But Alexander still extends his glory:~ Caesar was man,
1258 4,2 | strides, as we see, in the extension of his temporal power. In
1259 3,2 | others, on the contrary, extol his beauty. This contradiction
1260 10,3 | conducted in a manner even more extravagant and licentious than usual;
1261 9,3 | the crowd, who, always in extremes, whether of enthusiasm or
1262 5,3 | your children. In order to facilitate this purchase, we would
1263 6,3 | were heard from a direction facing the centre: this meant that
1264 13,1 | arms. All the republican faction, who saw in any sort of
1265 9,1 | effected in spite of two other factions, the 'Arrabiati', or Madmen,
1266 9,3 | heart of their champion was failing him. The first fear they
1267 3,3 | with no reason for their failure except the jealousy excited
1268 11,1 | the town. But he had only fainted, and at the end of a certain
1269 15,2 | thought fit; and then fell fainting on his bed. ~Caesar took
1270 12,2 | safety inspired by Frederic's faithless ally was not destined to
1271 5,5 | sixteen feet long, and then falconets, the smallest of which shot
1272 5,2 | Guelphs and Ghibellines had familiarised the Tuscan people with street
1273 3,1 | live according to his own fancies and caprices. About this
1274 13,1 | Duke of Valentinois. He, fancying the hour had came at last
1275 7,4 | up as high as the Via del Fantanone, they found a man at last
1276 3,2 | how he was and how he had fared on his journey. Caesar replied
1277 10,1 | the Riarii of Imola and Farli, the Variani of Camerina,
1278 15,3 | Faenza, by the capture of Farlimpopoli, and the surrender of Rimini,
1279 14,3 | like the machines at which farriers shoe horses; every day a
1280 15,3 | led towards Ravenna, the farthermost limit of the Papal estates,
1281 3,3 | him in her coils when the fascination of her glance had lost its
1282 10,2 | him on his victory; but at Fassambrane he was forced to stop a
1283 8,3 | his back, and the skirt fastened up to his middle, with a
1284 3,4 | their eyes dwell upon the fat harvests, the wealthy villages,
1285 7,1 | him alive. By a strange fatality the prisoner had died, eight
1286 2,1 | for him the surname of 'Fatile', or the Conqueror, he had
1287 14,1 | to cut the throat of the fattest sheep in the flock. ~The
1288 3,2 | life we shall deplore the faults which have brought this
1289 5,3 | If this proposition is favourably received, as we hope, by
1290 9,1 | Everything from without was favouring Alexander's encroaching
1291 3,2 | you; for in the path of favouritism a pope cannot slip without
1292 3,1 | Holding back was no longer feasible: so Roderigo obeyed; but
1293 1,2 | examines it: to-morrow is a feast-day; to the Cardinals Orsini,
1294 7,1 | Gonzalvo was rewarded for this feat by receiving the Rose of
1295 1,2 | colour with a long black feather falling to his shoulder.
1296 12,4 | there had been prizes for feats of adroitness, others were
1297 11,3 | chapel of Santa Maria delle Febbre. ~Lucrezia arrived the same
1298 5,8 | rule than the old; and Don Federiga, Alfonso's brother and Ferdinand'
1299 5,8 | power, he had wounded their feelings by bestowing all the titles,
1300 5,6 | vestments are put off; the pope feigned a wish to conduct the king
1301 12,1 | country, burned his fodder, felled his trees, torn down his
1302 Epi,1| business with a neighbour and fellow-merchant, a very rich man called
1303 7,4 | feet on the other. The two fellows I had first seen exploring
1304 2,3 | comprehend the districts of Feltre, Belluno, Cadore, Polesella
1305 3,2 | exercises, and especially in fencing; he could ride barebacked
1306 9,2 | so far from calming the ferment, had increased it: there
1307 12,4 | wishing to put in at Porto Ferrajo, they remained five days
1308 11,4 | bishop of Coma; Gian Battista Ferraro, bishop of Modem; Amedee
1309 9,1 | hand, fell none the less on fertile soil, where it would soon
1310 9,3 | members, all known to be fervent haters of Savonarola, whose
1311 Pro,1| before a wooden crucifix, fevered by vigils and penances,
1312 9,2 | about to be played was not a fictitious one. ~The Franciscans arrived
1313 15,4 | executed. ~This mark of fidelity might have proved fatal
1314 11,5 | home from working in the fields had seen him appear and
1315 4,4 | freed from the first and fiercest of his foes; Giuliano delta
1316 3,2 | ride barebacked the most fiery steeds, could cut off the
1317 14,1 | bishop of Brissina; Nicolas Fiesque, bishop of Frejus; Francesco
1318 2,2 | had just, after a reign of fifty-three years, affianced his son
1319 5,2 | pointing out to him the figure of Luca Corsini standing
1320 5,6 | and vow renders you that filial and respectful devotion
1321 5,2 | cathedral of Santa Maria Del Fiore. ~These were the conditions: ~
1322 6,4 | before daybreak he had the fires lighted, that the enemy
1323 1,2 | after the last rocket of a firework display; so that at the
1324 15,2 | to retire, and, being a first-rate strategist, echelonned his
1325 7,2 | increase the fortune of his firstborn by doing the very thing
1326 8,2 | chamber, the advocate, and the fiscal attorney, pronounced sentence,
1327 12,4 | the pope lived on fried fish that were caught under great
1328 7,4 | once all the boatmen and fishermen who were accustomed to go
1329 3,3 | benefits which would more fittingly have rewarded the deserts
1330 5,8 | bravoes; he was a man of five-and-thirty or forty, whose whole life
1331 10,4 | standing firmly by the French flag, careless of the order of
1332 11,3 | manner with steeled darts and flaming arrows. Like his predecessor,
1333 11,3 | brandished the sword, which flashed like lightning, and cut
1334 8,4 | stripes alternately raised and flat gold. ~Behind the seventy
1335 11,5 | town with his retinue of flattering nobles and titled courtesans,
1336 3,4 | marsh: it is a fact that Flavio Blando, writing in 1450,
1337 13,5 | of Urbino, if he should flee from Castello into your
1338 6,4 | their ranks that they were fleeing in all directions from the
1339 15,4 | soldiers seize d'Oviedo and fling him down from the top of
1340 6,3 | to the rescue of the van, flinging himself into the very midst
1341 9,3 | whole convent was quickly flooded with people, and Savonarola,
1342 6,1 | filled during the winter floods by the torrent which now
1343 11,1 | it in; smashing the upper flooring, it fell into the very room
1344 5,7 | down at the house of one Flores, auditor of the rota, where
1345 5,7 | with all his treasures in a flotilla of four galleys, leaving
1346 14,1 | powder was a sort of white flour, almost impalpable, with
1347 8,4 | there appeared to grow, like flowers, nosegays of pearls and
1348 14,3 | would have been uncertain of fluctuating even for a moment; far,
1349 5,8 | had fled, and in the first flush of his anger let the whole
1350 5,7 | remains of torn curtains were fluttering in front of them. Not understanding
1351 4,4 | first and fiercest of his foes; Giuliano delta Rovere,
1352 8,4 | cuirass in a pattern of golden foliage of wonderful workmanship,
1353 5,5 | formed each with their three followers a total of 10,000 men. Five
1354 3,3 | last for ever! What utter folly for any public man whose
1355 3,3 | amounted to superstition, her fondness for her children to weakness,
1356 9,3 | suspected that they had been fooled, their enthusiasm was changed
1357 2,2 | and consorting rather with fools than with the wise; lastly,
1358 4,5 | take to Asti the 2000 Swiss foot-soldiers he had levied in the cantons;
1359 11,3 | five blows, he lost his footing and fell to the ground unconscious;
1360 6,2 | to their knees, and the footmen holding to the horses' tails.
1361 3,2 | upon if they find not the footsteps of a saint, they may at
1362 2,2 | this very philosophical forbearance was during his journey to
1363 6,2 | could swell; the river, fordable to-day, might from tomorrow
1364 6,3 | Stradiotes between these two fords, with orders to cross the
1365 1,1 | will understand from the foregoing explanation, either the
1366 5,1 | themselves in contact with savage foreigners who, less advanced in civilisation,
1367 1,1 | and Nicholas V, artistic forerunner of Julius II and Leo X,
1368 13,5 | you would have thought he foresaw the fate that was in store
1369 5,4 | just what Alexander had foreseen: his envoy could not gain
1370 16,2 | heels up to the edge of the forest; then suddenly the pursued
1371 13,1 | had pronounced sentence of forfeiture in full consistory against
1372 2,2 | by repeating the maxim, Forgetfulness is the best cure for the
1373 6,2 | example, was an the point of forgetting the responsibility of a
1374 12,4 | of these." ~We humbly ask forgiveness of our readers, and especially
1375 13,2 | and at the same moment the formal prohibition from Louis to
1376 1,3 | scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation
1377 6,1 | Swiss, when it arrived at Fornova had come face to face with
1378 6,1 | started in hot haste for Fornovd, where he arrived with all
1379 11,4 | uttermost, although he had been forsaken by the Bentivagli, his near
1380 13,1 | The Duke of Valentinois forthwith returned to Camerino, where
1381 12,4 | enough to visit the old fortifications and issue orders for the
1382 2,3 | soon forgotten, and, 'a fortiori', relations arising from
1383 Pro,2| three men, of whom the most fortunate though all three were young
1384 5,4 | never stopped more than forty-eight hours in any town, so that
1385 1,1 | lasted for eleven hundred and forty-five years, had been threatening
1386 13,2 | advance no further step forwards, but also sent off, to give
1387 11,3 | By some means, fair or foul, suspicion had been sufficiently
1388 7,3 | example offered him by every founder of empire from Romulus to
1389 1,2 | advanced as far as the fountain which, formed the centre
1390 12,1 | ordered the massacre of four-and-thirty of his near relatives, brothers,
1391 5,4 | axe and surmounted by a four-cornered spike, to be used both for
1392 8,4 | eighteen pages, who were about fourteen or fifteen years of age;
1393 16,1 | with hands and feet to this fragile support. Luckily he was
1394 9,3 | But certain half-burned fragments were picked up by the very
1395 2,3 | brow open and admirably framed in beautiful white hair,
1396 11,3 | unsuited to his high rank. Dan Francesca Bargia, Archbishop of Cosenza,
1397 6,4 | double attack; the 'furia francese' rendered all their strategy
1398 3,4 | Sforza, brother of the great Francis I, Duke of Milan, was lord
1399 6,3 | 3~Now, Francisco de Gonzaga, general-in-chief
1400 12,3 | Anne de Laval, who married Francois de la Trimauille. Through
1401 4,3 | had at least the merit of frankness, the French envoys proceeded
1402 11,3 | with wild enthusiasm and frantic outcry. Caesar, apparently
1403 15,1 | of Chiuzano, Capo d'Anno, Frascati, Rocca di Papa, and Nettuno,
1404 7,3 | throne by the ladder of fratracide. Yes, Michelotto, as you
1405 Epi,2| living, avarice, greed, fraud, envy, pride, and even worse,
1406 4,4 | morning, Alexander VI was freed from the first and fiercest
1407 10,1 | liberator and the envoy of freedom. The great joy of the Milanese
1408 4,1 | advantages, began to dream of freeing himself from every let or
1409 14,1 | Nicolas Fiesque, bishop of Frejus; Francesco di Sprate, bishop
1410 2,3 | of which princes made so frequent a use at this period, that,
1411 1,3 | principal Madannas and the most frequented churches. As soon as the
1412 10,2 | prelates in the Church, the frequenters of the Vatican, the friends
1413 5,2 | evening, at the gate of San Friano. He found there the nobles
1414 5,2 | Franciscans; one of the friars lent the fugitive his dress,
1415 7,4 | the same day, which was Friday, two men were drawn out
1416 12,4 | three days the pope lived on fried fish that were caught under
1417 7,2 | velvet trimmed with silver fringe, and bells of silver hanging
1418 2,3 | Ravenna; she also owned the Friuli, except Aquileia; Istria,
1419 9,1 | Maggiore, and pictures by Fro Bartalommeo, who from that
1420 10,4 | baggage, clad in a monk's frock, with the hood pulled over
1421 1,3 | breaking simultaneously frog a hundred thousand breasts
1422 11,4 | protection and no trees for fuel, as the peasants had destroyed
1423 8,4 | donned a secular garb, thus fulfilling the ambition so long cherished,
1424 4,2 | recipient. The young man, full-blooded, with all the vices and
1425 16,1 | out, breathed freely with full-drawn breaths. ~There was no time
1426 1,3 | followed the silence "Non v'e fumo! There is no smoke!" In
1427 Pro,2| money, because from the funds of the republic you have
1428 15,1 | trumpets: this gave a sombre, funereal air to the whole procession,
1429 3,4 | industries silk, wool, hemp, fur, alum, sulphur, bitumen;
1430 6,4 | this double attack; the 'furia francese' rendered all their
1431 8,1 | gold was melting as in a furnace at these Fetes; and, by
1432 3,2 | true pontiff. God, who has furthered the means, claims at our
1433 13,3 | convenient to this prelate. ~"Furthermore, since there are certain
1434 5,4 | were attached a hundred fusiliers: their officers, to distinguish
1435 6,1 | Gaeta; and Don Juliano, Gabriel de Montfaucon, Guillaume
1436 13,3 | most illustrious lords, Don Gaffredo Bargia, Prince of Squillace,
1437 4,5 | that counter balanced the gains of the American gold-mines. ~
1438 10,4 | son of the unhappy Gian Galeazza who had been poisoned by
1439 15,3 | Francesco, a natural son of Galeotto Manfredi, the last surviving
1440 8,3 | courtiers to witness the gallant battle that was being fought
1441 11,4 | the nights in dancing and gallantry; for the loveliest women
1442 12,4 | at this spectacle from a gallery, encouraged the most agile
1443 5,2 | escape by the Porto San Gallo. The peril was imminent,
1444 16,2 | the sbirro; then all three galloped to the frontier of Navarre,
1445 12,1 | della Sassetta and Piero di Gamba Corti, and as soon as the
1446 11,4 | the days were passed in games and displays of horsemanship,
1447 5,4 | de Beaucaire, and Jean de Gannay, first president of the
1448 15,4 | thence going on into Romagna, Ganzalva allowed him to recruit as
1449 7,2 | the Assumption; in which Ganzalvo was invited to take part.
1450 2,1 | undertake to be his brother's gaoler. Charles VIII had not dared
1451 14,3 | matter escaped, the mouth gaped hideously, and the tongue
1452 15,2 | made their way into the gardens of the castle, where they
1453 16,1 | the loss of the battle of Garigliano, which robbed him of the
1454 5,2 | people, but every house from garret to basement seemed overflowing
1455 6,2 | by the establishment of garrisons in the various towns and
1456 12,4 | received prizes of embroidered garters, velvet boots, golden caps,
1457 6,1 | French and one thousand Gascon. He also expected to be
1458 5,4 | infantry came the archers of Gascony: there were five thousand
1459 4,3 | days he was at his last gasp. On the 25th of January,
1460 6,2 | they won the day they would gather the fruits of victory, and
1461 11,1 | and same idea of it may be gathered from the fact that 799,000
1462 11,1 | condition of the pilgrimage. For gathering in this tax a veritable
1463 13,5 | him; the last two quite gay and confident, but the first
1464 3,2 | to his fixed and powerful gaze, behind which burned a ceaseless
1465 5,5 | his hand, like an Italian gendarme, with a solid grooved end,
1466 10,4 | departure of the French gendarmerie who were already collected
1467 6,1 | Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, generalissimo of the confederate troops,
1468 4,5 | crossed the Alps by Mont Genevre, without encountering a
1469 12,2 | Provencal vessels, and three Genoese caracks, carrying 6500 invaders. ~
1470 Pro,1| he must part from those gentle-tongued women of his, those sweet-voiced
1471 8,4 | through Paris, Caesar's gentlemen-in-waiting wrote to Rome that they
1472 5,7 | the same time with such gentleness, that the King of France
1473 Epi,1| so he began to urge him gently as a friend to renounce
1474 5,6 | when he had gone on from genuflexions to kissing the feet, the
1475 13,5 | could no longer doubt the genuine return of his friendship,
1476 3,4 | was lord of Pesaro; the geographical situation of this place,
1477 14,2 | cry of terror: he beheld a ghastly apparition; it seemed that
1478 7,3 | the corner of the Jewish Ghetto, when four men on foot,
1479 10,1 | eternal wars of Guelphs and Ghibelines and the long exile of the
1480 10,4 | the chief nobles of the Ghibelline party, taking the road to
1481 5,2 | fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines had familiarised the Tuscan
1482 8,4 | restoration of Cremona and Ghiera d'Adda when he had completed
1483 15,3 | put under the command of Giacopo Venieri, who had failed
1484 2,2 | please any of these political giants whom we have described to
1485 13,5 | seize the castle of Monte Giardino, which belonged to the Orsini,
1486 Pro,2| dooming to the scaffold or the gibbet the son of Papi Orlandi,
1487 3,3 | cherished hopes. He rose giddy and staggering like a drunken
1488 6,2 | gentlemen of the guard with Gilles Carrone far standard-bearer,
1489 9,3 | republic, sent as deputies Gioacchino Turriano of Venice, General
1490 11,4 | Same days later, Maria Giorgi, ambassador extraordinary
1491 4,4 | be joined at Tarentum by Giorgia Bucciarda, Alexander VI'
1492 3,4 | means behindhand: Dante, Giotto, Brunelleschi, and Donatello
1493 2,3 | received his crown from Giovanna of Naples, who had adopted
1494 5,4 | was composed, says Paolo Giove, an eye-witness (book ii,
1495 Pro,1| called crimes the Dominican, Giralamo Francesco Savonarola. ~It
1496 8,3 | of St. Peter's, cut their girths, so that their loads fell
1497 7,3 | towards the Piazza della Giudecca. There he found the same
1498 11,4 | by such men as Paolo and Giulio Orsini, Vitellozzo Vitelli
1499 7,2 | spirit of a captain." ~"I am glad you think so," replied Caesar. "
1500 Pro,1| was his last. ~The monk glanced round the room as though