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2504 14,2 | only to himself, was not so prostrated as to lose sight for a moment
2505 4,1 | of the Mediterranean, the protectorship of the whole of Italy; it
2506 11,5 | Elizabeth of Gonzaga, her protectress and godmother, was now sending
2507 Epi,2| the Holy Spirit Himself protects it as the only true and
2508 9,3 | that he had spoken. This protestation led to a new application
2509 4,5 | politeness, and when they made protestations of friendship, asked them
2510 12,1 | intentions were only pacific, protesting that he only desired to
2511 12,2 | only been undertaken to provide the Christian princes with
2512 13,3 | reconquered Fano and the whole province; while Gian Maria de Varano,
2513 1,1 | days' obsequies into the provisional niche where the last deceased
2514 6,1 | Rome, he was content with provisioning the castle of S. Angelo,
2515 1,3 | had quite as much power of provoking noise as the first of imposing
2516 5,2 | to them unknown: the few prudent men who retained any influence
2517 9,1 | fire, singing religious psalms and hymns the while. On
2518 14,2 | turned round a corridor a puff of wind blew out his lamp;
2519 11,5 | Yet, since he who ought to punish him is not for him a prince
2520 Epi,2| more brilliant and more pure, it is borne in upon me
2521 3,2 | memory bear not this day in purgatory the burden of our sins,
2522 9,1 | genius, whose armour was his purity, who owned no offensive
2523 8,3 | been drawn towards secular pursuits both by natural inclination
2524 5,1 | final condition, a 'sine qua non', however, of his royal
2525 Pro,1| dissolved pearls which the quack doctor, Leoni di Spoleto,
2526 6,4 | them from the suspicion of quailing before imaginary dangers,
2527 15,2 | III replied that in his quality of sovereign prince the
2528 13,5 | might easily start some quarrel with the duke's men and
2529 4,5 | informed Charles of the quarrelling among his enemies; he showed
2530 15,1 | have no concern with the quarrels of the great, provided they
2531 13,5 | for the duke's army, had quartered their soldiers in little
2532 10,3 | when he learned that the quartermasters of the army were only a
2533 12,4 | time d'Albret arrived in quest of his cardinal's hat. He
2534 7,4 | from the Via della Ripetta, questioning every boatman and fisherman
2535 9,3 | pieces, and would not be quieted till they had exacted a
2536 12,1 | were not aware that he was quitting them on compulsion, he sold
2537 5,5 | the van, then when their quivers were empty could go off
2538 7,1 | in virtue of the treaty quoted above. ~The Venetian general,
2539 3,3 | abandoned to the fury of the rabble and the vindictive hatred
2540 12,2 | adventurers; further, Philip of Rabenstein was bringing by sea six
2541 11,3 | then began a marvellous race, in which it was impossible
2542 12,4 | made in the town that a racecourse for women was opened between
2543 9,3 | been able to endure the rack, and, overcome by agony
2544 11,4 | Rome, and the Archbishop of Ragusa, and made his way to the
2545 1,1 | discordant murmur of threats and raillery, the cause being that they
2546 9,3 | Dominicans, and Francesco Ramolini, doctor in law: they practically
2547 11,5 | women, at the top of the rampart, rolled down stones and
2548 10,4 | the Orsini, Orso, Orso, rang through all the streets,
2549 9,2 | nothing to be seen but heads ranged one above the other; the
2550 12,3 | vain did Fabrizio Colonna, Ranuzio di Marciano, and Don Ugo
2551 1,2 | sword, and with its point rapping three times on the pavement
2552 2,3 | Moreover, though he had rarely exercised his physical strength
2553 13,5 | a message that it was a rash thing to have his troops
2554 5,2 | of the Signoria spoke of ratifying the treaty of Piero dei
2555 7,4 | presentiments and by the raven's croak of the 'vox populi',
2556 11,5 | had recognised among the ravishers the Duke of Valentinois'
2557 3,4 | the Marquis of Marignan razed to the ground a hundred
2558 13,1 | conditions whatever, to re-enter the town whence they had
2559 15,1 | then hoped that peace was re-established, when it was heard that
2560 15,3 | to busy himself with the re-establishment of his affairs, which had
2561 16,2 | went to seek his master. On reaching the spot they pointed out,
2562 9,3 | this sudden and astonishing reaction, although he was not present
2563 12,2 | this consideration, one may readily suppose, all the pope's
2564 1,2 | its silver receptacle, and readjusting his cloak so as to hide
2565 7,3 | wife; the Cardinal of Monte Reale, Francesco Borgia, son of
2566 2,1 | against the Turks, but in reality to appropriate the pension
2567 12,2 | that at least they ought to reap some benefit from the check
2568 11,2 | retired in his turn, to reappear at the moment when Alfonso
2569 Pro,1| like the German monk, by reasoning, but by enthusiasm. With
2570 Pro,2| In vain did they try to reassure him with friendly words.
2571 8,4 | Next came two drums, one rebeck, and four soldiers blowing
2572 Epi,2| found me to your counsel and rebellious to your wish, I am now,
2573 6,2 | by the captain, Odet de Reberac, was separated from the
2574 6,4 | France; ~(2) That, as to recalling his troops from Naples,
2575 7,1 | Orsini, set them the work of recapturing Ostia, not desiring to incur
2576 | recent
2577 1,2 | replaced it in its silver receptacle, and readjusting his cloak
2578 5,6 | and at last arrived in the reception-room, where the pope was seated
2579 13,3 | to prevent such project reciprocally. ~"It is agreed, over and
2580 3,1 | uncle Calixtus made him reckon with the possibility of
2581 4,4 | was rejected, because he reckoned on employing the troops
2582 4,5 | lord. He found him half reclining on a couch, pale and emaciated,
2583 8,2 | ecclesiastical garments, they reclothed him in a dress of coarse
2584 10,4 | could not possibly escape recognition in the midst of an army
2585 11,2 | been unrewarded, far he had recognized one of the maids of honour
2586 4,1 | so familiar with, never recoiling from any situation, however
2587 16,2 | key. ~But summoning his recollections, he quite gave up the first
2588 5,7 | that he entreated he would recommend him to the young king, who
2589 3,3 | persons who were raised on our recommendation to posts of great dignity,
2590 13,4 | the hands of a captain, recommending him to get the best terms
2591 4,1 | Aragon; and with a view to reconciling Charles to so distant and
2592 11,4 | period. So, after he had reconnoitred, he at once began the siege,
2593 14,2 | Caraffa, who has himself recorded this strange event, and
2594 13,5 | since Macchiavelli himself recounts the history of this interview,
2595 13,3 | all their forces for the recovery of the estates aforesaid
2596 12,3 | him. The result of this recrudescence of affection was the appearance
2597 15,4 | Ganzalva allowed him to recruit as many soldiers at Naples
2598 10,4 | Sforza too; and while the recruits brought in by the bailiff
2599 15,3 | extinguished the remains of rectitude, refused to accept the places,
2600 2,2 | also was ugly and was only redeemed by the dignity and force
2601 10,1 | as a help in his work of reducing the Vicars of the Church. ~
2602 10,1 | conqueror made some slight reduction, granted important favours
2603 13,4 | quit his side until he had reentered Sinigaglia and arrived at
2604 11,2 | of Valentinois had been reflecting that the marriage, once
2605 8,3 | appending no remark or moral reflection. ~"On the 11th of November
2606 9,1 | the less, the Florentine reformer, who could not recoil from
2607 9,1 | stack, which the youthful reformers set on fire, singing religious
2608 2,1 | support by the claims of the refugee to a crusade which he was
2609 10,2 | crowns, which her father refunded to her the day after. Though
2610 5,8 | mother's house should be refurnished more magnificently than
2611 9,3 | tried in vain to combat his refusals. At last, as night was coming
2612 7,3 | lapse of a few seconds, regained some small strength, and
2613 5,7 | with something noble and regal in his air, presenting in
2614 Pro,2| dome of the church of Santa Regarata was struck by lightning,
2615 4,4 | pursuit of his own interests, regardless of the common this plan
2616 5,6 | religious debt, which he regards as a sacred duty, not by
2617 4,1 | none the less continued regent. Now Ferdinand definitely
2618 11,4 | between the Archbishop of Reggia, governor of Rome, and the
2619 4,4 | ever, had recalled several regiments that had actually started,
2620 12,4 | to make progress in the region of their last conquest,
2621 8,3 | his journal, which he duly registered with the impassibility of
2622 12,1 | men under the Command of Regniero della Sassetta and Piero
2623 6,2 | the centre, just as he had regulated their march by that of the
2624 5,1 | Paolo Orsini to Sarzano, to reinforce the garrison there, and
2625 2,3 | shown a desire to take the reins himself, he had fallen sick,
2626 5,2 | later on whether he would reinstate the Medici or whether he
2627 12,1 | of the Orsini, should be reinstated in his ancient power; that
2628 10,4 | last chance, and he did not reject it at once, but tried to
2629 4,4 | by Alexander VI it was rejected, because he reckoned on
2630 3,2 | that you are peculiarly rejoiced in beholding us on this
2631 12,4 | his share in the family rejoicing, and on the day when the
2632 9,3 | no possibility of their rekindling. From the moment when the
2633 7,3 | done that we are now to relate. ~This, however, is what
2634 13,1 | intention; so, profiting by the relaxation in vigilance that had naturally
2635 6,4 | the King of Naples not to release a man who, ever since the
2636 4,3 | Ludovico Sforza alone, and to relegate all other questions to the
2637 5,3 | therein is, that we will religiously observe all that has been
2638 11,2 | and when four mules had reluctantly dragged the dead bull from
2639 4,3 | VIII; so he resolved to rely on his ally Ludovico Sforza
2640 11,4 | young man of eighteen, who, relying on the love of his subjects
2641 5,5 | neighbouring streets. The remainder of the army was dispersed
2642 8,3 | of a scribe, appending no remark or moral reflection. ~"On
2643 9,3 | the mob a miracle quite as remarkable as if he had passed through
2644 2,3 | Lorenzo, on the contrary, was remarkably ugly; he had an agreeable,
2645 11,4 | turned his back upon them, remarking that those who had nothing
2646 3,4 | Lucrezia Borgia was now free to remarry. Alexander opened up two
2647 Pro,1| he desired to adapt his remedies rather to the riches of
2648 5,3 | conqueror; he saw the broken remnants of the Neapolitan troops
2649 15,4 | of Cardinals Borgia and Remolina, who, not feeling safe at
2650 14,1 | archbishop of Trani; Francesco Remolini, ambassador from the King
2651 Epi,2| unbridled manner, with no remorse and no shame, so that pretty
2652 11,3 | supposing he was dead, at once remounted the stairway, and found
2653 5,2 | instalments; ~The Signoria were to remove the sequestration imposed
2654 11,4 | masked man, who, without removing his domino, expressed the
2655 5,6 | and with promise and vow renders you that filial and respectful
2656 2,3 | sustain his rights against Rene. The two aspirants for some
2657 8,2 | water, which were to be renewed every three days, together
2658 Epi,1| him gently as a friend to renounce his errors and open his
2659 2,3 | splendour of his courts and the renown of his fetes. Piero dei
2660 Pro,2| Florence because they were less renowned; so much far your crimes."
2661 5,2 | and the discussion was reopened. At last, as they were coming
2662 14,1 | pass it by in silence. We repeat here what we read, and vouch
2663 2,2 | for these usurpations by repeating the maxim, Forgetfulness
2664 5,7 | he should never have to repent giving him his liberty,
2665 3,1 | same man: with words of repentance and humility on his lips,
2666 1,2 | mysterious a manner, when he replaced it in its silver receptacle,
2667 Pro,2| never!" ~The monk, without replying a single word, made a step
2668 10,3 | he bore, he resolved on a representation of the triumph of Julius
2669 13,2 | Baglioni, Hermes Bentivoglio, representing his father Gian, Antonio
2670 12,1 | himself through their fear of reprisals. ~Caesar's plans with regard
2671 7,1 | not desiring to incur the reproach of bringing them to Rome
2672 11,5 | himself: having often before reproached himself for his indifference
2673 13,5 | Oliverotto burst forth into reproaches against Vitellozzo, saying
2674 13,2 | furious letter to Vitellozzo, reproaching him for compromising his
2675 13,3 | October, 1502, which we reproduce here as Macchiavelli sent
2676 9,1 | utterly and entirely to the reproduction of religious scenes. ~ ~
2677 13,1 | citizens to arms. All the republican faction, who saw in any
2678 3,4 | although Alexander VI had repudiated the abuses of nepotism,
2679 2,3 | occasion, without feeling any repugnance or any predilection for
2680 4,4 | several months, Alfonso requested that a meeting might take
2681 6,4 | certain majority. ~The first requirement of the pope's policy was
2682 11,2 | from which he had just now rescued him. ~ ~
2683 3,2 | still on his knees, and reseating himself for he had risen
2684 13,3 | engaging to preserve no resentment of the same; and in conformity
2685 10,3 | to draw from the mighty reservoir of their mountains. The
2686 13,3 | compel Cardinal Orsino to reside in Rome longer than shall
2687 11,1 | and the dying were two resident officials of the Vatican.
2688 13,3 | duplicity, they had no power of resisting, not so much his actual
2689 11,2 | step forward. ~Applause resounded an all sides, so rapid and
2690 5,6 | renders you that filial and respectful devotion which the kings
2691 2,1 | and see what were their respective situations in regard to
2692 9,3 | confessed, in order to get some respite, that his prophecies were
2693 13,5 | which he hopes you will respond. He ended with charging
2694 5,2 | threatening murmur was the only response, and he understood that
2695 7,4 | I remained in my boat, resting in the cool night air, and
2696 8,4 | promise in his name the restoration of Cremona and Ghiera d'
2697 6,1 | side by the virtuous act of restoring the citadels of Terracina
2698 2,3 | he had not been able to restrain himself from saying before
2699 16,1 | would profit by this lack of restraint to put to him certain questions
2700 11,2 | remained safe long in that restricted area from an adversary against
2701 10,2 | rejoicings held in honour of his resuming its possession. ~Lucrezia'
2702 5,2 | armed their own servants and retainers, and awaited the issue,
2703 10,1 | if he would help them to retake Pisa, had just retracted
2704 13,3 | neighbourhood. Vitellozzo had retaken the fortresses of Fossombrone,
2705 15,1 | hurried to the chase. Sforza retook Pesaro, Bagloine Perugia,
2706 9,3 | that followed it the same retractions. The judges therefore, when
2707 6,2 | like wild animals, they had retreated to their lair in the woods,
2708 16,1 | when he had heard the steps retreating, he quietly raised his head,
2709 9,3 | him in his ecstasies and revealed the things that he had spoken.
2710 9,3 | Savonarola as a prophet, revere him none the less as a martyr. ~ ~ ~
2711 11,5 | scarcely had a league been revered when a troop of horsemen
2712 14,3 | of respect and religious reverence to the representative of
2713 1,3 | the most Eminent and most Reverend Signor Roderigo Lenzuolo
2714 Pro,1| reformation of Savonarola, more reverential than Luther's, which followed
2715 13,2 | were threatened by this new reversal of Caesar's policy. These
2716 14,1 | Louis XII, having suffered reverses in the kingdom of Naples,
2717 15,3 | had taken no part in these revolutions, and had remained immutably
2718 15,1 | round which all things had revolved for the last eleven years,
2719 2,1 | Cilicia, and took refuge in Rhodes, where he implored the protection
2720 15,3 | put into the hands of the Riani, the other, into the hands
2721 10,1 | Manfredi of Faenza, the Riarii of Imola and Farli, the
2722 10,2 | and mother of Ottaviano Riario, had retired to this town,
2723 7,2 | liveries, incomparable for richness with anything heretofore
2724 7,2 | rival that he resolved to be rid of him at all costs. So
2725 16,2 | himself like a lion; but, riddled with arrows and bolts, his
2726 5,7 | Caesar, who was an excellent rider, sprang to the saddle, and
2727 16,2 | Caesar sprang upon the riderless horse, pressed with fervour
2728 6,2 | This was done at once, the riders getting wet up to their
2729 4,5 | palaces. Lastly, he urged that ridicule and disgrace would fall
2730 Pro,2| because you have robbed the rightful magistrates of the authority
2731 7,1 | Alexander on account; he, a rigid observer of engagements,
2732 10,3 | ancient courage, but that rigidity of principle for which they
2733 16,1 | while he guarded Caesar rigorously, according to orders, he
2734 13,5 | Jacopo Santa Croce, and Rinaldo Orsino, who were all prisoners
2735 1,3 | it might very well be a riot; therefore, in proportion
2736 9,3 | Marco, to San Marco!" The rioters, few at first, were recruited
2737 6,4 | out that it would only be risking the loss of their present
2738 3,3 | the sentiment of a double rivalry, first in their father's
2739 11,4 | his camp between the two rivers, Amana and Marziano, placing
2740 7,4 | his present trade on the riverside, he had seen dead men thrown
2741 10,4 | But when he arrived at Rivolta, he remembered that there
2742 1,3 | broken with fatigue and roasted by the sun, these dwellers
2743 2,2 | ones soon took part in the robberies. Amurath seized part of
2744 1,2 | they would after the last rocket of a firework display; so
2745 3,1 | proved a lucky thing for Roderiga that he had assumed this
2746 7,3 | every founder of empire from Romulus to Bajazet, both of whom
2747 7,1 | with them they bore to Ronciglione the Duke of Gandia, wounded
2748 9,3 | on the terraces, on the roofs, since break of day, were
2749 11,1 | overturned, just as a tree is rooted up, and was dashed upon
2750 5,8 | Calabrian vassals, whose roots would be embedded in the
2751 12,4 | in white and crowned with roses, issued from her palace
2752 1,1 | temple laid by the architects Rossellini and Battista Alberti; but
2753 11,3 | horse. But after five or six rounds, the bull began to gain
2754 6,4 | already begun this work by rousing the Orsini against the Colonna
2755 4,2 | Charles VIII Perpignan, Roussillon, and the Cerdagne, which
2756 1,3 | Roderigo Borgia, Giuliano delta Rovera, and Ascanio Sforza; for
2757 2,3 | Belluno, Cadore, Polesella of Rovigo, and the principality of
2758 5,4 | like a bayonet: the first row of each battalion wore helmets
2759 8,4 | stones; in his cap were two rows of rubies, the size of beans,
2760 11,1 | three persons lying in the rubbish on the floor, one dead and
2761 13,1 | the murder of his brother Rudolph and for the harbouring of
2762 14,2 | but to sleep lying on a rug, his hand upon the handle
2763 Pro,2| ruin your soul as they have ruined your body!" And at these
2764 6,1 | overwhelming the conqueror in the ruins of his ambition. The messenger
2765 15,3 | so natural in sovereign rulers, had not yet extinguished
2766 6,2 | as darkness lasted, great rumblings were heard in the Apennines,
2767 10,4 | retired to bed when he sent a runner to Piacenza, to inform Carlo
2768 13,4 | little river of Umbria which runs into the Adriatic and has
2769 11,2 | any sort of pretext for a rupture, so he could not refuse
2770 6,2 | had already come to blows, rushing down into the plain as though
2771 1,1 | approaches it by the Piazza dei Rusticucci. ~In fact, the Basilica
2772 5,8 | and charge them with their sabres, while Caesar and his mother
2773 9,2 | procession, wearing the sacerdotal robes in which he had just
2774 14,2 | necessary to administer the last sacraments of the Church; but his admirable
2775 4,2 | age. ~By dint of all these sacrifices the young king made peace
2776 11,5 | truth, his very birth was a sacrilege; he is a fratricide, an
2777 Epi,2| pope downward to the lowest sacristan of St. Peter's were committing
2778 1,1 | still-born edifice, even sadder than that of a ruin. ~As
2779 6,2 | in their usual way at the saddle-bow. A detachment of cavalry
2780 Pro,1| following with profound sadness the progress of the malady
2781 2,2 | given this last proof of sagacity, died on the 19th of August,
2782 11,2 | origin, light as the wind of Sahara that had wedded with his
2783 15,4 | once weighed anchor and set sail for Spain: during the whole
2784 3,2 | find not the footsteps of a saint, they may at least tread
2785 6,1 | sent to Rome Monseigneur de Saint-Paul, brother of Cardinal de
2786 5,2 | aid; they armed hastily, sallied forth in crowds, and thronged
2787 12,1 | fountains that produced salubrious waters. This did not hinder
2788 Pro,1| entreaties were made, to sanction by his presence a power
2789 15,4 | the form of a treaty and sanctioned by a bull. By these arrangements,
2790 4,2 | conceded to the Duke of Sandia, he was touching with the
2791 12,4 | the Cardinal of Cosenza sang a mass and the pope officiated
2792 5,7 | outrages which no Turks or Saracens could possibly have improved
2793 12,1 | Command of Regniero della Sassetta and Piero di Gamba Corti,
2794 13,5 | each accompanied by his two satellites; but scarcely had they gone
2795 16,2 | was rather the result of satiety than courage: however that
2796 6,4 | his own kingdom had been satisfactorily, settled. ~~Although in
2797 5,1 | concession was far from satisfying him, and that he still must
2798 5,1 | themselves in contact with savage foreigners who, less advanced
2799 11,4 | bravest leaders, Honario Savella; was left behind in the
2800 4,4 | which was to carry him to Savona. ~From that day forward
2801 16,1 | the window, and to finish sawing through the bar. When this
2802 11,3 | before it was out of the scabbard he had received two blows
2803 4,1 | counter weight into the scales; so, betraying to Alexander
2804 4,3 | the Church and a public scandal, were grouped a number of
2805 4,5 | in a few days either from scarcity of food or from the unwholesome
2806 1,1 | Cavallo, according as the scarlet-robed assembly is held in one
2807 12,1 | of a few days Severeto, Scarlino, the isle of Elba, and La
2808 12,4 | of all these fetes was to scatter abroad a great deal of money,
2809 11,3 | well to be put on the wrong scent; and although, immediately
2810 5,5 | bad moment to excite a new schism in the Church, just when
2811 9,3 | his accomplices heretics, schismatics, persecutors of the Church
2812 4,2 | tutor and the pride of his scholar together combined to agitate
2813 14,1 | nothing ourselves, lest science should give us the lie. ~
2814 6,3 | lances with their fearful scimitars. Happily the king, who had
2815 5,2 | republic, commonly called the Scipio of Florence, snatched from
2816 6,1 | viceroy; d'Aubigny, of the Scotch Stuart family, lieutenant
2817 7,4 | could be discovered from scouring the town, except the body
2818 4,5 | At sight of her, Sforza scowled with an anxious and threatening
2819 11,5 | day of the bull-fight, had screamed when Caesar was all but
2820 5,6 | Holiness was at that moment screened by some masonry, this supplied
2821 8,3 | with the impassibility of a scribe, appending no remark or
2822 12,2 | suppose, all the pope's scruples vanished; on the 25th of
2823 10,1 | difficult matter for Alexander, scrupulously examining the actions and
2824 5,1 | had been lighting up the sea-coast so as to keep open the communications
2825 14,1 | into a bottle hermetically sealed, that made the liquid poison.] ~ ~
2826 2,2 | view to an attack, on the seas or the mountains, the Adriatic
2827 5,4 | went out at the gate of San Sebastiana, at the same moment that
2828 6,4 | Camillo Vitelli, and Francesco Secco, who were all eager to follow
2829 13,5 | two chosen out to die to a secluded spot outside the ramparts
2830 11,5 | displayed, and the able seconding of his soldiers, they were
2831 7,3 | after the lapse of a few seconds, regained some small strength,
2832 11,4 | broke up his army into three sections, sent one-third to Imola,
2833 8,1 | never been more the home of sedition, luxury, and carnage, according
2834 Epi,1| words the merchant uses to seduce a customer, the superiority
2835 9,3 | persecutors of the Church and seducers of the people. ~The firmness
2836 9,1 | lips, and that was all; the seed, though scattered by another
2837 13,5 | consequent disappearance of all seeds of trouble and dissension
2838 | seem
2839 | seems
2840 Epi,1| court of Rome, and there sees the shameful life led by
2841 7,4 | only then that the Duke of Segovia, who had been kneeling almost
2842 5,8 | presented by Charles to the Seigneur de Precy, rose in revolt
2843 10,2 | because the two owners of the seigneury, had first to be disposed
2844 12,1 | did not hinder Caesar from seizing in the space of a few days
2845 8,4 | struck dawn by an apoplectic seizure directly after his supper;
2846 4,1 | precious stones which he had selected from the family treasures.
2847 2,3 | superior in merit to him self. The one was his nephew,
2848 1,1 | after living a life of self-indulgence, just died, after a death-struggle
2849 2,2 | feeble in person, full of self-will, and consorting rather with
2850 11,1 | The second plan was the selling of indulgences, a thing
2851 6,1 | were at either end of a semicircular chain of hills resembling
2852 6,4 | somewhat from the defeat at Seminara. At almost the same time
2853 12,4 | gentlemen in their suite, the Senate of Rome and all the lords
2854 11,5 | Italy." ~The doge and the senators, who, as we said, were already
2855 4,2 | Lastly, by the treaty of Senlis, dated the 23rd of May,
2856 5,1 | butcheries produced a tremendous sensation at Florence, the richest
2857 2,2 | nest, destitute of both sense and money, feeble in person,
2858 11,1 | bulls contained the severest sentences of excommunication against
2859 5,4 | clock in the morning, a sentinel placed on a watch-tower
2860 3,4 | plans of Alexander VI; the separation was therefore changed into
2861 9,1 | deprived of the rights of sepulture. Savonarola appealed from
2862 5,2 | Signoria were to remove the sequestration imposed upon the property
2863 11,4 | had come hither to make a seraglio for the victor which might
2864 3,4 | French peasants or the German serfs; they bore arms, they had
2865 9,2 | to his congregation in a sermon full of strength and eloquence. ~
2866 9,1 | to attend at Savonarola's sermons. After this mandate, any
2867 6,3 | men scattered instead of serrying their ranks and fighting
2868 15,3 | great changes in Romagna. Sesena was once more in the power
2869 15,3 | morning, just as Caesar was setting foot on his vessel, he was
2870 14,2 | his crimes. His age was seventy-two, and he had reigned eleven
2871 13,2 | whether he attacked them severally or all together. ~Caesar
2872 11,1 | both bulls contained the severest sentences of excommunication
2873 12,1 | the space of a few days Severeto, Scarlino, the isle of Elba,
2874 10,4 | others, Galeazzo di San Severing, who commanded under him,
2875 3,4 | from the first showed a severity which neither the rank nor
2876 11,4 | de Mendoza, archbishop of Seville; Jacques, archbishop of
2877 7,4 | part of the bank where the sewers of the town are discharged
2878 11,5 | consideration due to her sex and condition, but also
2879 10,4 | monk, so that mounted an a shabby horse he might pass for
2880 6,4 | whom Alexander called the shackles of the papacy. We saw that
2881 7,3 | magnificent pine trees that shaded the house of Rosa Vanozza,
2882 11,5 | cross direction, and as the shades of evening were now beginning
2883 11,5 | and vanish again like a shadow, taking the direction of
2884 14,3 | in the nails: amid those Shakespearian pleasantries that sound
2885 2,2 | desire based far more on his shallow character and impetuosity
2886 7,1 | His Holiness can grant. He shared this distinction with the
2887 5,8 | defrayed by all in equal shares. ~The formation of this
2888 12,2 | treaty the two kings were sharing their conquests beforehand:
2889 7,3 | and boldly grasp the very sharpest thorns, whatever reluctance
2890 1,1 | the dead pope, to dress, shave and paint him, to have the
2891 1,1 | daggers retire into their sheaths. ~Now the eyes of this multitude
2892 10,4 | far too well to consent to shed their blood without reward;
2893 14,1 | the throat of the fattest sheep in the flock. ~The nomination
2894 16,1 | into strips, joined the sheets, table napkins and cloth,
2895 6,4 | bank of the Taro, and took shelter in a poor house. There he
2896 5,5 | had its own name, their shields each telling of territorial
2897 2,3 | exercises that should make him shine in their eyes, above all
2898 16,2 | this cavalry at the first shock gave way and took flight
2899 4,2 | any idea that the earliest shocks were at hand he had profited
2900 8,4 | the horses and mules were shod with golden shoes, and these
2901 14,3 | machines at which farriers shoe horses; every day a bull
2902 12,4 | the same cavalcade, which shone the more brightly under
2903 5,5 | visibly trembled, the glass shook in the windows, and behind
2904 1,1 | looked like a gigantic needle shooting up from the middle of truncated
2905 2,3 | Zara, Spalatra, and the shore of Albania; in the Ionian
2906 7,1 | they with arms four feet shorter had no chance even of returning
2907 5,5 | long cloaks adorned with shoulder-knots, and plates of silver whereon
2908 1,3 | eyes were fixed: a general shout saluted its fall; little
2909 9,3 | hootings, and pursued with showers of stones. Savonarola, thanks
2910 11,5 | his side in his own army, showing him honours befitting a
2911 3,2 | tawny beard whom Raphael shows us in the fine portrait
2912 1,3 | threatening character: there was a shrewd suspicion that the procession,
2913 9,1 | sacrifice. So actually on Shrove Tuesday a considerable number
2914 1,3 | trembled, then vanished shuddering into space, and, a great
2915 12,3 | upon the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. ~The capture of Naples
2916 12,4 | utterly subdued either by sickness or by the terror of death.
2917 14,1 | accordingly put the wine an a sideboard apart, bidding the waiters
2918 6,3 | he had decided to take a sideway course, and had given orders
2919 3,1 | the Cardinals of Naples, Sierra, Portugal, Santa Maria-in-Porticu,
2920 7,4 | depths of despair: amid sighs and sobs of grief, all he
2921 5,8 | promise to his mother, he signalised his return by a terrible
2922 5,2 | Nerli coming towards him, signalling to him that it was useless
2923 9,2 | brief, announced to the Signaria that unless they forbade
2924 5,2 | resolution was perhaps of more significant moment in Florence than
2925 5,6 | Christian kings of France, to signify, through their ambassadors,
2926 1,3 | Eminent and most Reverend Signor Roderigo Lenzuolo Borgia,
2927 9,1 | threatening voice must be silenced at any cost. ~But mighty
2928 7,1 | most rapid movements, and silencing the enemy's artillery by
2929 5,7 | when she saw him; for so silent and mysterious was the cardinal
2930 1,2 | cloak: he, guided by the silvery sound it had made in touching
2931 14,2 | father assistance, Caesar was similarly seized; the effect of the
2932 9,1 | religion to a primitive simplicity. Towards the first of these
2933 1,3 | and, a great cry breaking simultaneously frog a hundred thousand
2934 Epi,1| have committed some grave sin and need absolution; then
2935 5,8 | flight, and expressed the sincerest regret to His Majesty, declaring
2936 5,1 | as a final condition, a 'sine qua non', however, of his
2937 9,3 | the smoke arise, began to sing a psalm, and the flames
2938 6,3 | encounter, where each man had singled out his own foe as though
2939 7,4 | threw them so as to make it sink under; as soon as it had
2940 5,2 | exclaimed: ~"Very good, sire; blow your trumpets, and
2941 4,5 | first cousins, sons of two sisters of the house of Savoy. So
2942 9,3 | ecclesiastical judges to sit in the Florentine tribunal.
2943 1,1 | obelisk covered the actual site where the vestry now is,
2944 2,1 | what were their respective situations in regard to Italy, which
2945 3,1 | less the two hundred and sixtieth successor of St. Peter. ~ ~
2946 12,3 | which had now reigned for sixty-five years. Frederic, its head,
2947 3,2 | black-haired cavalier with pale skin and tawny beard whom Raphael
2948 6,1 | already engaged in several skirmishes with the French troops during
2949 Pro,1| of his convent, as if the slab of his tomb had already
2950 6,3 | the middle of the fray, slashing at the horses' legs and
2951 Pro,2| happy." ~"Florence is a slave, Florence is poor," cried
2952 16,2 | them thrusting a sharp and slender iron pike through a weak
2953 16,1 | though by magic, and he slid under the table in a profound
2954 7,3 | one but Caesar paying the slightest attention to him, for at
2955 7,2 | he said, in a voice whose slightly mocking tone gave the only
2956 3,2 | favouritism a pope cannot slip without a fall, and cannot
2957 6,1 | Besides, on the western slope of the hills there was a
2958 4,3 | Rome and Naples did men slumber while ruin was at hand;
2959 3,1 | where he might perhaps have slumbered on like an ordinary man,
2960 12,4 | with a joy so great that it smacked of the humble beginnings
2961 6,3 | dealing heavy blows that smashed in the visors of the dismounted
2962 8,2 | to the taste and to the smell, impossible to discover
2963 13,5 | at once so loyal and so smiling that Gravina and Orsina
2964 11,5 | rendered up to him without a smirch upon her bridal veil, or
2965 2,2 | tranquillised his kingdom and smoothed the way for a child who
2966 3,3 | thirty years; and like a snake, she knew haw to envelop
2967 2,3 | verses almost as well as the so-called Magnificent; but he was
2968 Pro,2| human things he seemed to soar, a spirit already detached
2969 4,5 | knees and threw herself sobbing into her husband's arms.
2970 7,4 | and ashes on his head, he sobbingly avowed all the errors of
2971 Epi,2| Abraham, himself a chaste, sober, and upright man, that he
2972 4,3 | had gained for them the sobriquet of "the Jews of Christendom,"
2973 Epi,2| since I returned from this Sodom, firmly resolved on becoming
2974 5,4 | came in at another. His sojourn was not long. Two days later,
2975 4,1 | when the old king, at the solicitation of Piero, suddenly drew
2976 5,5 | Italian gendarme, with a solid grooved end, and on his
2977 6,3 | in consequence had less solidity. Those who were thus disarmed
2978 3,1 | enemies, the reputation of a Solomon for wisdom, of a Job for
2979 | someone
2980 | somewhere
2981 6,4 | following, at the Castello della Somma, at the foot of Vesuvius;
2982 9,3 | veil, while their religious song was yet heard mounting upward
2983 3,4 | manuscripts of AEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides had come (
2984 6,3 | this moment the French were sorely pressed in the rear; and
2985 12,4 | Francesco Borgia, Cardinal of Sosenza, legate a latere, to accompany
2986 5,2 | order his trumpets to be sounded. Hereupon Piero Capponi,
2987 3,1 | to be separated from the source whence had sprung eight
2988 6,2 | cavalry by fighting in the spaces between them. ~The second
2989 2,3 | side of the Gulf, Zara, Spalatra, and the shore of Albania;
2990 7,1 | thought he might as well spare him half his journey, and
2991 14,1 | told, and only to persons specially indicated; the butler accordingly
2992 14,3 | 100,000 Roman crowns in specie, several boxes full of jewels,
2993 8,2 | from time to time strange spectacles were exhibited. We will
2994 11,2 | seeking to discover the fair spectator who had given so lively
2995 5,8 | haul; for, in his twofold speculation in this wretched young man,
2996 Epi,2| his friend, and this was speedily done; and the new convert
2997 15,3 | Ostia, and cross over to Spezia, where Michelotto was to
2998 10,4 | single drop of it to be spilled for less than its weight
2999 5,4 | raise or lower like the spines of a porcupine. To each
3000 4,5 | accommodation prepared in the Spinola and Doria palaces. Lastly,
3001 1,2 | step, crossed Borgo San Spirito, and took the street of
3002 7,4 | noise made when the body splashed into the water, the horseman
3003 5,7 | Borgia appeared, riding on a splendidly harnessed mule, and behind