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1501 16,2 | ground, and Caesar by the glare of the torches had caught
1502 16,2 | the torches had caught the glitter of the long-sought key,
1503 4,5 | brilliant court, and both glittering with jewels and precious
1504 10,2 | had never existed. Thus in gloom and silence passed away
1505 7,4 | the pope, tormented by the gloomiest presentiments and by the
1506 Epi,2| public, he saw that they were gluttons and drunkards, so much so
1507 5,7 | replied Rosa Vanozza, gnashing her teeth, "from the serpent
1508 8,2 | despair, not before he had gnawed his own arms in his agony. ~
1509 3,2 | once we had reached our goal, we would follow no other
1510 16,2 | subjects, and sung as a goddess by Ariosto and by Bembo. ~ ~
1511 11,5 | Gonzaga, her protectress and godmother, was now sending her with
1512 Epi,2| Without delay he went with his godson to Notre Dame de Paris,
1513 Pro,1| conceal his tears, in the gold-brocaded curtains, was Ermolao Barbaro,
1514 3,4 | America was for Spain, a vast gold-mine for them to work. In consequence
1515 4,5 | the gains of the American gold-mines. ~The king's indisposition,
1516 4,3 | the seventy, but also the gonfalonieri who had sat for the last
1517 12,2 | but he was counting on Gonsalvo of Cordova, who was to join
1518 15,4 | the castle to bid Gonzalvo good-bye, thinking he was just about
1519 13,3 | eloquence as that air of frank good-nature which Macchiavelli so greatly
1520 7,3 | the Duke of Gandia bade good-night to his mother. Caesar at
1521 1,1 | assassinations had continued in goodly fashion, and there were
1522 3,4 | honours, money, jewels, gorgeous stuffs, and magnificent
1523 4,3 | to chant the Epistle and Gospel, sat Lucrezia his daughter
1524 5,3 | we adore and by our holy Gospels, that they shall be faithfully
1525 Pro,1| to which was added the gout, a hereditary ailment in
1526 9,1 | delinquencies committed under other governments; secondly, the abolition
1527 12,4 | picked up, running about gracefully, in and out between the
1528 3,3 | then in their sister's good graces, had sent the blood mantling
1529 8,3 | humbly entreated His Holiness graciously to yield to the desire he
1530 11,5 | vengeance, and so the talk grew gradually less, and at last the occurrence
1531 3,4 | of stores in the public granaries with such liberality, that
1532 8,4 | Valentina Visconti, his grandmother; and, secondly, his spiritual
1533 7,3 | in his path, and boldly grasp the very sharpest thorns,
1534 5,7 | France loyally and frankly grasped the young sultan's hand,
1535 7,3 | stepping towards him and grasping his hand; "and my only regret
1536 8,4 | Louis XII was not only grateful to the pope for dissolving
1537 16,1 | and sup with him: Caesar gratefully accepted. ~This time it
1538 13,5 | he thinks, to excite your gratitude towards him; secondly, he
1539 6,1 | but a plain covered with gravel, where all manoeuvres must
1540 1,2 | golden dreams of their future greatness. ~ ~
1541 Epi,2| luxurious living, avarice, greed, fraud, envy, pride, and
1542 Epi,2| of the belly than are the greediest of animals. When he looked
1543 2,3 | instructed in Latin and Greek, his conversation was pleasant
1544 5,3 | Hungary, and thirdly with the Greeks of Macedonia and Epirus;
1545 12,4 | through the whale town, greeted by cries of "Long live Pope
1546 11,4 | surprised at the brevity of the greeting, asked if they had nothing
1547 5,3 | heavenly Providence, first, greetings that we owe him and bestow
1548 12,2 | pope the treaty signed at Grenada on the 11th of November,
1549 5,5 | shot balls the size of a grenade. This formidable artillery
1550 12,3 | it is said, of poison, at Grenoble, at the age of twenty-two;
1551 9,1 | government; and the 'Bigi', or Greys, so called because they
1552 5,8 | under the command of Antonio Grimani, were to attack all the
1553 Pro,2| dying man, he replied with a groan which proved the monk's
1554 7,3 | small strength, and his groans were heard by the inhabitants
1555 5,7 | cardinal's costume, he put on a groom's dress. Thanks to this
1556 11,1 | two equerries, and two grooms. In this church were buried
1557 5,5 | Italian gendarme, with a solid grooved end, and on his saddle bow
1558 8,4 | velvet to match. ~The third group consisted of, first, two
1559 1,1 | climbing up into the basilica, grouping themselves upon the stones,
1560 5,8 | families in Rome, and had grown rich partly by their pay
1561 12,4 | that there would be some grumbling at Cesena, where it will
1562 13,4 | Florence were to be the guarantors of this treaty. ~But the
1563 2,1 | direct charge he was; but his guardian had consented, for the sake
1564 15,1 | received from Alexander the guardianship of the Castle Sant' Angelo
1565 6,3 | well guarded, and God was guarding the King of France." ~All
1566 6,1 | bailiff of Vitry, and Graziano Guerra respectively governors of
1567 13,1 | plot had been discovered by Guglielma dei Pazzi, commissary of
1568 6,1 | confederates, who had encamped at Guiarole. The marechal had ordered
1569 14,3 | cabinets; then, under his guidance, took away two chests full
1570 16,2 | contusions: he at once rose, and guiding himself by the direction
1571 6,1 | Gabriel de Montfaucon, Guillaume de Villeneuve, George de
1572 10,1 | the castle before a single gun had been fired. Twenty-one
1573 5,5 | along as they lay on their gun-carriages. These cannons were eight
1574 6,2 | spark applied to a train of gunpowder. Commines and the Venetian '
1575 11,1 | there came up such a furious gust of wind that the highest
1576 6,3 | armed with the axes they habitually used to cut down wood for
1577 5,8 | the enthusiasm that had hailed his first appearance. What
1578 11,3 | received two blows from a halberd, one on his head, the other
1579 15,1 | canopy, supported by twelve halberdiers, leaning forward on his
1580 5,4 | one-fourth of their number bore halberts instead of lances, the spikes
1581 9,3 | into the Arno. But certain half-burned fragments were picked up
1582 1,1 | walls of unequal height, and half-carved stones. ~On the right of
1583 5,5 | consisted of a helmet and half-cuirass; some of them carried a
1584 5,4 | that the French vanguard halted five hundred feet from the
1585 7,2 | stood bareheaded before ham, he said, in a voice whose
1586 6,4 | mile lower down than the hamlet where he rested after the
1587 14,3 | knees to bend, the others hammered in the nails: amid those
1588 13,2 | subjects, had come with a handful of soldiers to the fortress
1589 7,3 | fancied he recognised the handwriting of his sister Lucrezia.
1590 8,3 | execution, the thieves were hanged, and the unfortunate Moor
1591 7,4 | instantly recognised as the hapless duke. At the very first
1592 1,3 | struck, without anything happening to confirm or destroy their
1593 13,1 | brother Rudolph and for the harbouring of the pope's enemies, and
1594 5,1 | florins. Piero found it no harder to dispose of money than
1595 10,3 | carried away from the humble, hardy life of a mountain people
1596 Epi,1| I doubt not, they are in harmony with what you preach, I
1597 9,1 | licentious paintings, lutes, harps, cards and dice, cosmetics
1598 Pro,1| of a voice that was both harsh and weak, a defective pronunciation,
1599 4,2 | learned what plots were hatching at the French court against
1600 16,1 | up for two years was so hateful to Caesar that he lost not
1601 9,3 | all known to be fervent haters of Savonarola, whose trial
1602 | hath
1603 11,4 | bestow the twelve cardinals' hats that had been sold. The
1604 2,3 | of political affairs and haughtily insolent in his behaviour
1605 5,8 | pope had secured a double haul; for, in his twofold speculation
1606 3,3 | and like a snake, she knew haw to envelop him in her coils
1607 6,1 | and, putting all to the hazard, attempt to annihilate the
1608 4,1 | Charles to so distant and hazardous an expedition, offered him
1609 3,3 | not only did we plunge headlong from the summit of our grandeur,
1610 14,2 | little doubt that their heated condition increased its
1611 9,2 | covered with faggots and heath, supported by cross-bars
1612 15,4 | Catholic. Caesar at these words heaved a deep sigh, cursing the
1613 5,8 | remembered the twenty waggons, so heavily laden, from one of which
1614 9,3 | Savonarola, breaking through the hedge of guards around the scaffold,
1615 8,2 | pedestal which was to have heightened its grandeur. Accordingly
1616 6,2 | which he could see from the heights where he now stood, stretching
1617 1,1 | set up by the Pharaoh at Heliopolis, and transferred to Rome
1618 10,4 | learning that the sons of Helvetia were on the point of cutting
1619 10,4 | better paid. The worthy Helvetians, since they no longer fought
1620 5,8 | Valentino's orders, they were hemmed in on all sides by two thousand
1621 3,4 | in industries silk, wool, hemp, fur, alum, sulphur, bitumen;
1622 2,3 | too weak to busy himself henceforward with the affairs of his
1623 6,1 | taken, he sent out, first, a herald to the enemy's camp to ask
1624 12,4 | which were shouted aloud by heralds clad in cloth of gold. ~
1625 Pro,1| which was added the gout, a hereditary ailment in his family. He
1626 9,3 | Savonarola and his accomplices heretics, schismatics, persecutors
1627 7,2 | for richness with anything heretofore seen in Rome, that city
1628 5,3 | we promise your Highness herewith, for your greater satisfaction,
1629 14,1 | transferred into a bottle hermetically sealed, that made the liquid
1630 16,2 | enough of life, and his heroism was rather the result of
1631 4,2 | also the towns of Aire, Hesdin, and Bethune, which he promised
1632 7,3 | will come": then he quickly hid the letter in the pocket
1633 5,4 | whom would have been a head higher than the tallest of the
1634 11,5 | procure information. On the highroad there had been found dead
1635 11,5 | oppressor of the innocent, and a highway assassin; he is a man who
1636 6,1 | natural advantages of the hilly ground. When these first
1637 11,2 | disappeared at once to the hilt; the bull, checked in the
1638 11,2 | kicking up the dust with his hind feet, and lashing his sides
1639 9,3 | difficulties had arisen that had hindered the trial, so they laid
1640 5,5 | procession, and formed the hindmost guard of the French army. ~
1641 10,4 | in arrears but a double hire. But unluckily the fulfilment
1642 15,4 | far as Nettuno, and there hired a little boat, in which
1643 3,2 | portrait he made of him. And historians, both chroniclers and painters,
1644 5,8 | Precy, rose in revolt and hoisted the banner of Aragon; and
1645 3,1 | a positive order to the holder of the post to come and
1646 5,7 | Cardinal Valentino was making holiday with their master, they
1647 11,4 | of their bravest leaders, Honario Savella; was left behind
1648 13,3 | their nature, he added, an honest, honourable explanation
1649 16,2 | three days later, and were honourably received by the king, Jean
1650 11,5 | envoys were for the moment hoodwinked, and themselves undertook
1651 9,3 | taken back amid shouts and hootings, and pursued with showers
1652 5,4 | enemy was visible on the horizon. At once Alexander and the
1653 14,3 | and swollen, that it was horrible to behold; from its nose
1654 3,2 | lasted, made him an object of horror and disgust, while all the
1655 11,5 | Faenza had suffered all the horrors of famine, delegates came
1656 11,4 | in games and displays of horsemanship, the nights in dancing and
1657 3,1 | churches, monasteries, and hospitals, acquiring, his historian
1658 11,4 | it is true, in declared hostility to France, though there
1659 5,2 | the discussion began more hotly than ever before. Then Charles
1660 9,1 | the whole town, making a house-to-house visitation, claiming all
1661 1,3 | tempest into cries, curses, howls, threatening to tear down
1662 9,3 | though the suspicion was humiliating; he changed shirt, dress,
1663 15,2 | service they were engaged, was humouring the duke for the sake of
1664 9,1 | perfumes in a word, all the hundreds of products of a corrupt
1665 11,1 | of demonstration from the Hungarian side, and the Venetians
1666 4,2 | donning the scarlet, the pope hunted up four false witnesses
1667 3,3 | fear of the deer for the hunter; but with Caesar it was
1668 8,4 | were followed by eighteen hunters ridden by eighteen pages,
1669 8,4 | late and tired from the hunting-field, had bathed his head in
1670 10,1 | playing his part in the great hunting-ground of Italy, scarcely waited
1671 9,1 | bodies would be dragged on a hurdle and deprived of the rights
1672 10,4 | expedition, and mounting hurriedly with twenty-five men, he
1673 5,3 | throne, shall there be any hurt done to the Christians,
1674 13,3 | profit of all as a war was hurtful to all, and that he was
1675 6,3 | wood for building their huts: they burst into the middle
1676 9,3 | denounced him as a liar and a hypocrite. So when the next morning,
1677 6,2 | Lastly, the third division, i.e. the rear, preceded by six
1678 14,2 | entered boldly, and though an icy sweat ran dawn his brow,
1679 10,3 | masquerade. As he was pleased to identify himself with the glory,
1680 1,3 | these dwellers in shade and idleness, that they had no strength
1681 12,4 | sight of all men completely ignored Lent and did not fast. The
1682 2,3 | uncle Ludovico, surnamed 'il Moro', because of the mulberry
1683 4,4 | had brought upon him the ill-will of Prospero and Fabrizio
1684 14,3 | ALTARIA, CHRISTUM:~ EMERAT ILLE PRIUS, VENDERE JUKE POTEST"; ~
1685 4,5 | interrupted by the king's illness. This was the first example
1686 10,4 | which in the evening were illuminated, as though Constantinople
1687 5,5 | was a torch-bearer, this illumination gave to the objects around
1688 11,1 | mistress, Rosa Vanazza, whose image, in the guise of the Madonna,
1689 3,1 | one of the loveliest women imaginable, made her his mistress.
1690 6,4 | suspicion of quailing before imaginary dangers, put a stop to this
1691 4,4 | to furnish, he had at his immediate disposal a hundred squadrons
1692 12,1 | possessed this town from time immemorial, had not only made all preparations
1693 7,4 | who was coming home, the immoderate love he felt for his victim. ~ ~ ~
1694 3,2 | all men passionately and immoderately ambitious to attain to the
1695 Pro,1| raised, and the monk, pale, immovable, solemn, appeared on the
1696 12,3 | conqueror. Gaeta bought immunity from pillage with 60,000
1697 15,3 | revolutions, and had remained immutably faithful to the Duke of
1698 14,1 | sort of white flour, almost impalpable, with the taste of sugar,
1699 8,3 | duly registered with the impassibility of a scribe, appending no
1700 15,1 | Romagna alone remained impassive and loyal, for the people,
1701 4,5 | more disastrous than the impediments offered at every step by
1702 11,3 | his head, while his body, impelled by the speed of the run,
1703 2,2 | five words ~ "AUSTRIAE EST IMPERARE ORBI UNIVERSO." ~This means ~"
1704 2,2 | So much for France. ~The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic
1705 10,1 | him nothing against the impetuous onslaught of the French,
1706 4,2 | emperor acquired a fresh impetus when Charles VIII sent back
1707 9,2 | Savonarola of heresy and impiety. At the same time the pope,
1708 11,5 | most treacherous, the most impious, the most infamous of men,
1709 3,4 | harvests, animals, and farm implements; their houses at any rate
1710 2,1 | refuge in Rhodes, where he implored the protection of the Knights
1711 3,4 | could not bring forth were imported, from the Black Sea, from
1712 9,1 | temporal and spiritual, whose importunate and threatening voice must
1713 1,3 | provoking noise as the first of imposing silence, traversed in its
1714 4,5 | both of them considered impregnable fortresses; worse than this,
1715 15,1 | masters. The ambassadors, impressed with the urgency of the
1716 15,4 | to be taken to Rome and imprisoned in the Castle of Sant' Angelo.
1717 12,4 | situation was that it was improbable that the same demonstrations
1718 8,3 | in his situation it was improper to follow his passions,
1719 7,1 | to their own troops: the improvements were mainly certain changes
1720 10,1 | was now suffering from his imprudence in calling the French into
1721 6,4 | about through their own imprudent action that the Orsini,
1722 8,3 | Ferdinand could no longer impute to Alexander the signature
1723 11,1 | the pontifical treasury is incalculable, and same idea of it may
1724 3,1 | of him the most perfect incarnation of the devil that has perhaps
1725 12,2 | upon Naples, not with the incautious ardour of Charles VIII,
1726 5,8 | planned a long time back, and incensed him doubly against the pope.
1727 4,1 | but there was a risk of inciting Ludovico Sforza to start
1728 8,3 | pursuits both by natural inclination and ability, and it had
1729 8,3 | wishing to force his son's inclinations, accepted his resignation,
1730 15,2 | could make the majority incline to whichever side he chose.
1731 5,4 | case Charles should wish to include Alfonso II in the treaty,
1732 7,2 | clad in sumptuous liveries, incomparable for richness with anything
1733 13,1 | tried to resist, and fled incontinently, disguised as a peasant;
1734 12,4 | Valentinais averted this inconvenience in the prompt and efficacious
1735 3,2 | the journey, the trifling inconveniences and short fatigue had been
1736 9,3 | but since another man was incurring the danger; he could not
1737 6,3 | arrived in time: first the indefatigable Charles, who, having nothing
1738 10,4 | on which they counted as indemnification for the arrears of their
1739 16,1 | head with an expression of indescribable pride, he wiped his brow
1740 11,5 | reproached himself for his indifference in passing her by. Therefore
1741 9,2 | himself to the flames; and the indifferent saw in the ordeal a spectacle
1742 11,5 | great interest and profound indignation; for they, as he told them,
1743 8,4 | Brittany, but he considered it indispensable to his designs in Italy
1744 3,1 | done, he was content to indite to His Holiness a letter
1745 2,1 | therefore the son of a private individual. This was rather a poor
1746 13,5 | objection, ordered his soldiers indoors, and put his horse to the
1747 7,2 | strange and unnatural, had induced her to defer this departure
1748 13,5 | might grant him plenary indulgence for all his sins. Then the
1749 12,4 | encouraged the most agile and industrious with their applause, and
1750 9,3 | the trial he would be less inexorable; but since another man was
1751 3,1 | Valencia. Roderigo from his infancy had shown signs of a marvellous
1752 10,4 | compelled, in spite of his inferior numbers, to prepare for
1753 3,2 | giving to his face something infernal and superhuman. Such was
1754 1,1 | if the journal of Stefano Infessura may be believed, two hundred
1755 5,5 | made for war against the infidels. As this was also the king'
1756 Pro,2| The mercy of God is infinite," replied the monk; "and
1757 Pro,1| reading in his marble brow the inflexibility of a statue, fell back on
1758 3,3 | their private interests, he inflicted an injury, not only upon
1759 5,4 | found the mind of Charles influenced now by the insinuation of
1760 5,4 | instructions for the more influential among his counsellors. These
1761 4,5 | expectation of vengeance. He informed Charles of the quarrelling
1762 10,1 | that could be called an infraction of the treaty made between
1763 10,3 | husband when he heard of this infringement of conjugal duty had been
1764 11,5 | was all but touched by the infuriated beast. At this time she
1765 2,2 | vowels, a, e, i, o, u, the initial letters of these five words ~ "
1766 13,2 | off, to give effect to his injunction, the captain Imbaut with
1767 4,4 | twelve small vessels, with injunctions to wait at Livorno and keep
1768 11,1 | dazed with the blow, and injured, though not seriously, in
1769 16,1 | that looked out upon an inner court, and soon contrived
1770 13,2 | the public proof of his innocence and the private use of his
1771 1,2 | immediately, when all the innumerable crowd, knowing well that
1772 5,8 | not seeing him, he sent to inquire what had prevented his appearance.
1773 7,4 | bearing on the subject of inquiry. He was a Slav named George,
1774 11,3 | delayed, and considerable inroads had been made upon the pope'
1775 2,2 | deserved far more the name of insensibility to injuries or poverty of
1776 1,2 | little, these last groups insensibly diminished; for half-past
1777 4,5 | Rovere had exercised true insight in probing the vanity of
1778 3,2 | was arrogant, jealous, and insincere. According to Tammasi, he
1779 5,4 | Charles influenced now by the insinuation of Giuliano della Ravere,
1780 13,3 | promises further not to insist on the service in person
1781 14,1 | Therefore he was content with insisting upon Pandolfo Petrucci's
1782 2,3 | political affairs and haughtily insolent in his behaviour to those
1783 9,3 | and put on others to be inspected by witnesses. Fra Bonvicini
1784 2,2 | worthy of praise, on a closer inspection it was found to be something
1785 13,4 | by the mistrust it might inspire, he sent away all French
1786 9,1 | unjust persecution always inspires. ~Then Alexander made overtures
1787 5,2 | 120,000 florins, in three instalments; ~The Signoria were to remove
1788 9,2 | dressing-room; but in this instance the tragedy that was about
1789 4,2 | all the vices and natural instincts of a captain of condottieri,
1790 11,1 | veritable army of collectors was instituted, a certain Ludovico delta
1791 2,3 | through his nose; he was instructed in Latin and Greek, his
1792 6,3 | guard the camp under the instruction of the Venetian 'proveditori',
1793 7,2 | view of serving as a new instrument for her father's ambition.
1794 16,1 | been able to receive the instruments of escape sent by Michelotto.
1795 5,3 | thousand Turks would be insufficient under the present circumstances,
1796 6,2 | tomorrow onwards prove an insurmountable obstacle; and possibly the
1797 3,4 | birth and fortune or by intellect, to enter with any sort
1798 8,3 | entreated the lord cardinals to intercede for him with His Holiness,
1799 5,2 | for him, his letter was intercepted. The Signoria considered
1800 9,2 | perform a miracle by the intercession of Savonarola, His prophet. ~
1801 9,2 | the republic laid under an interdict and declared the spiritual
1802 16,1 | a third part of it when, interesting as it was, the eyes of his
1803 15,3 | pope had learned in the interim that the Venetians had made
1804 5,5 | conqueror, and were marching intermingled with the great French lords. ~
1805 3,1 | if fortune had not thus interposed to drag him forcibly away.
1806 15,2 | to the duke, had by the interposition of Pandolfo Petrucci, gained
1807 14,3 | chapel where it was to be interred, and, lifting it off the
1808 12,3 | which he had been forced to interrupt. During this interval Alexander
1809 9,1 | all the greater for the interruption, and an influence far more
1810 2,3 | suburbs of Venice. ~In the intervals of space left free between
1811 2,1 | But then Innocent VIII had intervened, and in his turn had claimed
1812 14,3 | long, through which the intestines were drawn out; then Caesar
1813 5,8 | of Savoy, with orders to intimate to the Holy Father his displeasure
1814 8,2 | destroy some one of his intimates, he bade him open a certain
1815 10,1 | personages were whom we introduce upon the scene by the above
1816 12,2 | Genoese caracks, carrying 6500 invaders. ~Against this mighty host
1817 5,8 | who had promised to make invasions on the frontiers, and Bajazet,
1818 4,1 | conform to the plan he had invented, when the old king, at the
1819 15,1 | declaring the Sacred College inviolable: they then ordered the Orsini,
1820 3,3 | his apartments, without inviting him to follow. ~The young
1821 2,3 | shore of Albania; in the Ionian Sea, the islands of Zante
1822 1,2 | sister, with a still more ironical expression. ~"Lucrezia,
1823 Epi,2| answer to the charge of irreligion which some might make against
1824 6,4 | from Naples, he was not so irreligious as to do that, since they
1825 3,4 | consisting of four magistrates of irreproachable character, empowered to
1826 Pro,1| twenty-three, summoned by an irresistible vocation, had fled from
1827 4,4 | now; at last Charles, more irresolute than ever, had recalled
1828 1,3 | suspecting, for all their irreverence, that this procession, more
1829 9,3 | constitutionally nervous and irritable, he had not been able to
1830 15,4 | Rome guarded, the momentary irritation his refusal had caused was
1831 2,3 | in the Ionian Sea, the islands of Zante and Corfu; in Greece,
1832 12,1 | Severeto, Scarlino, the isle of Elba, and La Pianosa;
1833 Epi,1| qualities of the worthy Israelite; feared lest, good man as
1834 2,3 | Friuli, except Aquileia; Istria, except Trieste; she owned,
1835 9,3 | Meanwhile the people, jammed together in the streets,
1836 14,1 | abundant ran out from his jaws; it was this froth, collected
1837 6,1 | pondering whether they ought to jeopardise the whole Italian force
1838 Pro,2| our towns, like those of Jericho, shall fall at the blast
1839 12,4 | arm-chair, invoking the name of Jesus and making the sign of the
1840 4,1 | constantly filled with tailors, jewellers, and merchants of priceless
1841 3,1 | they treated as a piece of jobbery; but Roderigo had none the
1842 13,4 | Oliverotto ran the risk of joining the duke in order to make
1843 5,8 | to commit, received him joyfully, but all the same advised
1844 7,3 | Duke of Gandia seemed more joyous than he had ever been before. ~
1845 14,3 | EMERAT ILLE PRIUS, VENDERE JUKE POTEST"; ~that is, ~ "Pope
1846 6,1 | commander at Gaeta; and Don Juliano, Gabriel de Montfaucon,
1847 6,4 | thirty-two days, on the 20th of July, 1496. This involved giving
1848 3,1 | sciences, especially law and jurisprudence: the result was that his
1849 14,3 | pass. This was indeed well justified; for Fabio Orsino, meeting
1850 3,2 | happen should we feel too keen an interest in your fortunes.
1851 16,1 | for some minutes to the keyhole; then lifting his head with
1852 3,2 | Christ's vicar? Am I then the keystone of the Christian world?" ~"
1853 8,2 | food a poison that would kill slowly or quickly as the
1854 3,3 | kingdom of Naples, Calixtus kindled a terrible war, which by
1855 14,1 | contemporary writers, was of two kinds, powder and liquid. The
1856 12,1 | were that Piero dei Medici, kinsman and ally of the Orsini,
1857 5,7 | at once, bending on his knee, demanded the pope's benediction,
1858 13,2 | opposed his horns to the knife of the butcher; besides,
1859 5,5 | exposed to attack. Every knight was followed by three horses
1860 6,3 | the centre, was conferring knighthood on those gentlemen who had
1861 7,4 | making no answer to those who knocked at his door to bring him
1862 1,2 | place, he gave three rapid knocks on the door of a house of
1863 16,1 | was hanging on the last knot, he sought in vain to touch
1864 16,1 | or sixty feet long, with knots every here and there. This
1865 8,4 | his boots, that was not laced with gold and edged with
1866 12,4 | boots, golden caps, and laces; then new diversions took
1867 16,1 | he would profit by this lack of restraint to put to him
1868 1,3 | are either a cardinal or a lacquey, and you live, nobody knows
1869 8,4 | party of four-and-twenty lacqueys, dressed half in crimson
1870 7,3 | climbed to the throne by the ladder of fratracide. Yes, Michelotto,
1871 14,3 | case they had once cured Ladislaus, King of Naples. Four posts,
1872 11,5 | recognised the very same lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Urbino
1873 5,5 | colours each telling of a lady-love. Besides defensive arms,
1874 13,4 | and who was called the lady-prefect, because she had married
1875 11,5 | to the days of Pomponius Laetus, acquired a new splendour
1876 1,2 | crowd, except a few curious laggards, who, living in the neighbourhood
1877 6,2 | artillery, under Jean de Lagrange, a hundred gentlemen of
1878 6,2 | they had retreated to their lair in the woods, and there
1879 15,3 | the fortresses of Val di Lamane and Faenza, by the capture
1880 11,3 | doctors, who had taken the lamentations of the pope and Caesar quite
1881 12,4 | of Pontercole, where he landed, and after sending to Corneto
1882 13,5 | had he reached the first landing before his mules and carriages
1883 10,4 | childhood, by name Conrad Lando, whom he had helped to much
1884 2,3 | Pavia, where he lay and languished under the eyes of his wife
1885 14,1 | Vicovaro, Cera, Palombera, Lanzano, and Cervetti ; when these
1886 9,2 | giving on the Loggia dei Lanzi, their exit exactly opposite.
1887 7,3 | pavement. But he, after the lapse of a few seconds, regained
1888 1,3 | little the aperture grew larger, and in a few minutes it
1889 7,2 | perhaps the finest and largest that ever belonged to a
1890 5,1 | to his palace in the Via Largo. ~ ~
1891 6,2 | Engelbert der Cleves and de Larnay, the queen's grand equerry;
1892 11,2 | with his hind feet, and lashing his sides with his tail.
1893 11,4 | already some coolness. The last-named, fearing to compromise themselves,
1894 1,1 | Gregory XVI, every pope lasts about eight years, and these
1895 8,1 | another business he had lately been charged with, nothing
1896 10,3 | experience this venality, which later-on proved so fatal to Ludovico
1897 5,5 | equerries who were called lateral auxiliaries, because in
1898 7,3 | back in two hours' time at latest, and to take him up as he
1899 1,3 | procession had gone past, the laughing and joking continued, but
1900 10,3 | brow crowned with a golden laurel wreath, surrounded by lictors,
1901 4,2 | counties of Chiaramonte, Lauria, and Carinola, an income
1902 6,4 | Vesuvius; all the attentions lavished upon him by his young wife
1903 10,2 | despatches for the pope, and lavishing upon him all the tokens
1904 12,2 | of Naples, of the town of Lavore and the Abruzzi, and would
1905 8,3 | world, thereto contract a lawful marriage; also he entreated
1906 5,8 | rebellion against society's laws; he recoiled from no action,
1907 5,7 | was at liberty, Caesar, in layman's dress and wrapped in a
1908 11,4 | while one of their bravest leaders, Honario Savella; was left
1909 5,7 | him nothing, that he would learn all he cared to know from
1910 13,5 | your territories, when he learns that Vitellozzo is a prisoner. ~"
1911 5,1 | Lucca, Piero dei Medici learnt that his concessions to
1912 5,5 | no caparisons of dressed leather, which made them more exposed
1913 2,3 | bequeathed as a paternal legacy by Lorenzo, as we have seen,
1914 4,2 | keeping of this promise the legitimacy of his power wholly depended.
1915 14,1 | Francesco di Sprate, bishop of Leome; Adriano Castellense, clerk
1916 9,1 | 1498. ~The expulsion of Leonard's dei Medici was a new triumph
1917 Pro,1| which the quack doctor, Leoni di Spoleto, prescribed for
1918 2,3 | Zante and Corfu; in Greece, Lepanto and Patras; in the Morea,
1919 2,2 | example and by the impunity of lesser thieves, the greater ones
1920 Pro,1| by his superiors to give lessons in philosophy, the young
1921 16,1 | he alone could say; then letting go the rope, he dropped
1922 5,3 | jem, who being a man is liable to death, and who is now
1923 9,3 | always denounced him as a liar and a hypocrite. So when
1924 3,4 | public granaries with such liberality, that within the memory
1925 2,3 | little by little lost all her liberties, and belonged in fact, if
1926 1,3 | dissolute man, it is true, but libertinism had mounted the throne with
1927 5,1 | keys of Pietra Santa, Pisa, Librafatta, and Livorno. Piero saw
1928 10,3 | laurel wreath, surrounded by lictors, soldiers, and ensign-bearers,
1929 14,3 | the carpenters put on the lid, and while one of them sat
1930 11,5 | protection: it is not so; he lies, and his loose and criminal
1931 10,2 | Lucrezia Borgia of Aragon life-governor of Spoleto and its duchy,
1932 16,1 | Don Manuel to his room and lift Caesar on the bed; then
1933 Pro,1| century, a classic of the lighter sort, who in his Latin verses
1934 5,1 | Montpensier, who had been lighting up the sea-coast so as to
1935 12,4 | out between the burning lights; the pope, the Duke of Valentinois,
1936 5,4 | Yves d' Alegre and Louis de Ligny had taken over Ostia from
1937 13,5 | transferred to a castle, were likewise strangled. ~The duke, leaving
1938 6,1 | de Villeneuve, George de Lilly, the bailiff of Vitry, and
1939 5,2 | had passed through thickly lined with people, but every house
1940 8,2 | first say that they are literally translated from Burchard'
1941 8,4 | caparisoned, this time in the livery of the King of France, yellow
1942 13,2 | convoked at Maggione all whose lives or lands were threatened
1943 7,4 | when I had set down my load of wood on the bank, I remained
1944 5,7 | pillaged his mother's house, loading her with insults and outrages
1945 8,3 | their girths, so that their loads fell on the ground with
1946 10,4 | and all to the castle of Loches, where he lived for ten
1947 8,1 | ambassadors to Alexander to lodge a complaint against a proceeding
1948 5,7 | left the former at his lodging, and taking D'jem with him,
1949 5,8 | and busied himself with loftier concerns, bending all the
1950 5,4 | them from the men, wore lofty plumes on their helmets. ~
1951 Pro,1| by enthusiasm. With him logic always gave way before inspiration:
1952 11,5 | taking the direction of a lonely house. An old woman declared
1953 16,2 | caught the glitter of the long-sought key, and as soon as the
1954 11,5 | not so; he lies, and his loose and criminal life has made
1955 12,2 | by the death of Alfonso, loosened all the bonds that attached
1956 13,5 | three proposals before your lordships: first, that you rejoice
1957 2,2 | is the best cure for the losses we suffer. At the time we
1958 11,5 | again she appeared more lovely than on the first occasion,
1959 3,3 | young people exchanged a lover-like kiss beneath her very eyes:
1960 1,2 | things than his illicit loves, he ordered that four servants
1961 11,5 | summoned Michelotto, and in a low voice said a few words to
1962 6,1 | had to be lifted up and lowered by main farce, and each
1963 15,4 | himself proscribed, owned to Loxa on his dying bed that now,
1964 5,7 | that the King of France loyally and frankly grasped the
1965 10,1 | king with his accustomed loyalty hastened to perform. He
1966 5,2 | out to him the figure of Luca Corsini standing at the
1967 16,1 | to this fragile support. Luckily he was both strong and skilful,
1968 4,1 | the personal authority of Ludowico Sforza over the duchy of
1969 3,4 | calm was nothing but the lull which goes before a storm.
1970 3,1 | not extinguished, at least lulled; he was frightened himself
1971 3,1 | house in the street of the Lungara, near the church of Regina
1972 5,3 | massacres of Fivizzano, of Lunigiane, and of Imola; he knew that
1973 3,3 | that lust for blood which lurks perpetually in the heart
1974 9,1 | of Gandia's murderer, the lustful, jealous fratricide; lastly,
1975 9,1 | books, licentious paintings, lutes, harps, cards and dice,
1976 Pro,2| they were enervated by your luxuries, they had displayed the
1977 10,4 | fortress of Pierre-Eucise to Lys-Saint-George he relegated him for good
1978 11,3 | the pope's new political machinations. Caesar only stayed at Rome
1979 Epi,2| there is worse; all the machine seemed to be set in motion
1980 8,3 | were killed. Roderigo and Madame Lucrezia, who sat at the
1981 1,3 | stations before the principal Madannas and the most frequented
1982 8,4 | to be his wife: this was Mademoiselle d'Albret, daughter of the
1983 2,3 | From Cadiz to the Palus Maeotis, there was no port that
1984 13,2 | So Vitellozzo convoked at Maggione all whose lives or lands
1985 9,1 | which was an aristocratic magistracy; thirdly, the establishment
1986 8,2 | Two days later the civil magistrate entered the prison to fulfil
1987 7,1 | to sustain a war of such magnitude; that the little store of
1988 4,4 | approaching the scene of Mahomedan conquests, and that if Charles
1989 11,2 | had recognized one of the maids of honour to Elizabeth,
1990 7,1 | troops: the improvements were mainly certain changes in the artillery
1991 15,1 | Colonnas were pledged to maintain a neutrality, and had been
1992 2,2 | reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having
1993 13,1 | except the fortresses of Maiolo and San Leone. ~The Duke
1994 | makes
1995 10,1 | lords in question were the Malatesti of Rimini, the Sforza of
1996 6,1 | governors of Sant' Angelo, Manfredonia, Trani, Catanzaro, Aquila,
1997 7,4 | rooms of the Vatican like a maniac, and entering the consistory
1998 11,3 | fear, therefore, that the manifestation of a grief she felt this
1999 16,1 | and soon contrived so to manipulate it that it would need only
2000 5,4 | Terni, and his confessor, Mansignore Graziano. They were charged
2001 3,4 | stuffs, and magnificent mansions. A true Spaniard beneath