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3004 4,1 | the King of Naples, to be spokesman for all four. Unluckily,
3005 16,1 | room, made a false step and sprained his foot; at the dinner-hour
3006 14,1 | of Frejus; Francesco di Sprate, bishop of Leome; Adriano
3007 3,1 | from the source whence had sprung eight years of happiness,
3008 6,3 | the flower of his army, a squadron of Stradiotes, and more
3009 4,4 | immediate disposal a hundred squadrons of heavy cavalry, twenty
3010 4,3 | they waste their time and squander their money in a vain display
3011 13,4 | signal they might either stab or arrest them; next he
3012 8,3 | palace and the gate; then the stable doors were opened, and four
3013 13,5 | seized and shut in the palace stables. When he entered the hall
3014 9,1 | soon piled up in a huge stack, which the youthful reformers
3015 11,2 | Milan was evidently but the stage before Naples. It was very
3016 3,3 | hopes. He rose giddy and staggering like a drunken man, and
3017 1,1 | two-and-twenty courts, the thirty staircases, and the two thousand bedchambers;
3018 5,1 | when he suddenly heard two startling pieces of news. A jealous
3019 7,4 | declaring his resolve to die of starvation. And indeed for more than
3020 4,3 | the young people with a stately and magnificent escort of
3021 6,3 | like a king, and doing as steady work as the lowest in rank
3022 11,2 | a magnificent Andalusian steed of Arab origin, light as
3023 3,2 | barebacked the most fiery steeds, could cut off the head
3024 11,3 | in the same manner with steeled darts and flaming arrows.
3025 14,2 | great and the climb rather steep, the pope, when he reached
3026 1,1 | which, if the journal of Stefano Infessura may be believed,
3027 2,3 | of December 1476, in St. Stephen's Church, and assumed the
3028 10,2 | her their hands when she stepped from her litter or her horse,
3029 14,1 | sent their servants and the steward to make all preparations,
3030 8,2 | lock of the cupboard turned stiffly the hand would naturally
3031 9,1 | lust of power. Thus had he stigmatised Alexander's new amour with
3032 1,1 | presented the appearance of a still-born edifice, even sadder than
3033 13,3 | fail to keep the present stipulations, and to unite in the destruction
3034 2,1 | naught, it was good enough to stir up a war. The two brothers,
3035 5,7 | pope's benediction, and stooped to kiss his feet. But this
3036 8,4 | the duke's treasure was stored, the precious stones he
3037 3,4 | arranged for the provision of stores in the public granaries
3038 1,3 | 11th of August, 1492, arose stormy and dark; this did not hinder
3039 15,2 | when the latter arrived at Storta, he found the Orsini's army
3040 7,1 | Soriano road, and the battle straightway began. The pontifical army
3041 10,4 | it might help him in his straits. His plan was to disguise
3042 1,2 | added the younger, with a strangely mocking smile, "our father
3043 15,2 | and, being a first-rate strategist, echelonned his retreat
3044 6,2 | though the Taro, only a streamlet the day before, had become
3045 3,4 | election means not only of strengthening the league, but of making
3046 7,4 | should fall, he gave the strictest orders for the pursuit of
3047 4,1 | though as yet he was not strictly an usurper. Although the
3048 8,1 | their city was making a new stride in the direction of ruin.
3049 11,4 | vicar-general; Thomas, archbishop of Strigania; Piero, archbishop of Reggio,
3050 7,2 | and wore at his neck a string of Eastern pearls, perhaps
3051 5,4 | reputation for quickness in stringing and drawing their iron bows. ~ ~
3052 8,4 | another ten, covered with striped cloth of gold, the stripes
3053 8,4 | striped cloth of gold, the stripes alternately raised and flat
3054 7,3 | murderers' daggers, their strokes were redoubled, and the
3055 14,3 | King of Naples. Four posts, strongly welded to the floor and
3056 6,1 | d'Aubigny, of the Scotch Stuart family, lieutenant in Calabria;
3057 12,4 | severed from the trunk, stuck up on the end of a pike. ~
3058 8,2 | less than a matter of the stud farm. But as both of these
3059 7,2 | his cap was a gold chain studded with diamonds of which the
3060 3,2 | of Pisa, where he was a student. His ambition had sometimes
3061 2,3 | cultivated mind, and had studied the sciences above all,
3062 Pro,1| treatise 'On Celibacy', and of 'Studies in Pliny': the year before,
3063 3,1 | singular way: he knew the stuff that was in young Roderigo,
3064 3,2 | to God beforehand that we stumble not because of you; for
3065 15,1 | After the first moment of stupefaction, all who had an injury to
3066 11,5 | vengeance, he threw off his stupor and dashed away to the ducal
3067 10,1 | period, in which the king was styled their liberator and the
3068 12,4 | were with him were utterly subdued either by sickness or by
3069 1,2 | Cardinal Colanna his abbey of Subiaca; he gives Cardinal Sant'
3070 3,1 | the gift of the abbacy of Subiaco, and sent him in the capacity
3071 5,2 | condition of their again submitting to the rule of Florence; ~ ~
3072 5,2 | pay to Charles VIII, as subsidy, the sum of 120,000 florins,
3073 2,3 | Greece seemed to be mere suburbs of Venice. ~In the intervals
3074 4,5 | fact he had to make sure of succeeding the man he had assassinated. ~
3075 10,2 | in consequence of Louis's successes, which had caused some coolness
3076 4,5 | vaunted beforehand, for whose successful execution, moreover, he
3077 4,4 | arms: he had already fought successfully against Florence and Venice,
3078 13,1 | this part of Italy by the successive captures of the duchy of
3079 5,6 | investiture, for himself and his successors, of the kingdom of Naples;
3080 6,3 | all possible speed to the succour of the centre, together
3081 10,1 | did not allow himself to succumb at the first blow, and in
3082 12,4 | in vain for the second; suffice it to say that just as there
3083 10,1 | fired. Twenty-one days had sufficed for the French to get possession
3084 11,3 | foul, suspicion had been sufficiently diverted from the true assassins;
3085 10,2 | Sforza in exchange for his suffrage. Ascanio had naturally lost
3086 4,5 | him have a proof of it, suggesting that they should lend him
3087 8,3 | scarlet robe, which was suited to him, says his historian
3088 7,2 | do you think this dress suits me?" ~Accustomed as he was
3089 6,1 | Catanzaro, Aquila, and Sulmone; then leaving behind in
3090 3,4 | wool, hemp, fur, alum, sulphur, bitumen; those products
3091 11,1 | that before the end of the summer Bajazet would land two considerable
3092 3,3 | plunge headlong from the summit of our grandeur, losing
3093 6,4 | of excommunication, and a summons to appear before him in
3094 7,2 | pages and servants, clad in sumptuous liveries, incomparable for
3095 16,2 | queen by her subjects, and sung as a goddess by Ariosto
3096 5,5 | would have shown in the sunlight. The young king was to take
3097 8,4 | but only men, women and sunshine. ~The king, on the pretext
3098 16,1 | that he offered to come and sup with him: Caesar gratefully
3099 2,1 | into Rome, mounted on a superb horse, clothed in a magnificent
3100 3,2 | face something infernal and superhuman. Such was the man whose
3101 6,1 | messenger found Charles busy superintending the passage of the last
3102 Epi,1| to seduce a customer, the superiority of the Christian religion
3103 9,3 | Bonvicini would not give up this supernatural aid, they far their part
3104 3,3 | to the Virgin amounted to superstition, her fondness for her children
3105 14,1 | by his heels; convulsions supervened, and a froth deadly and
3106 12,4 | October, fifty courtesans supped in the apostolic palace
3107 10,2 | off as soon as he left the supper-table, but on arriving at Urbino
3108 10,2 | was on his way home from supping with Dan Elisio Pignatelli.
3109 5,6 | screened by some masonry, this supplied him with another excuse,
3110 10,3 | preparations for departure when a suppressed excitement began to spread
3111 13,2 | hour had perhaps came for suppressing them also, and in the usurpation
3112 5,5 | bands, their velvet and silk surcoats, their swords each of which
3113 11,5 | so numerous that it must surely indicate the approach of
3114 5,3 | sooner than later, and by the surest means you might be pleased
3115 15,2 | gained the ear of the pope's surgeon, who placed a poisoned plaster
3116 11,3 | arrested the doctors, the surgeons, and a poor deformed wretch
3117 5,4 | into the form of an axe and surmounted by a four-cornered spike,
3118 2,3 | but his uncle Ludovico, surnamed 'il Moro', because of the
3119 10,3 | of those who command is surpassed by the baseness of those
3120 4,5 | began with a magnificence surpassing anything that Italy had
3121 15,4 | Cesena and Bertinoro had surrendered their fortresses to the
3122 6,3 | and apparently prepared to surround it; at the same moment loud
3123 11,2 | and the windows of the surrounding houses served as boxes for
3124 14,3 | instinctively feel, and which alone survives every other, even in the
3125 1,3 | bursts of laughter, without suspecting, for all their irreverence,
3126 14,2 | wore round his neck, which suspended a gold medallion that enclosed
3127 14,3 | condition left everyone in suspense: had the mighty Duke of
3128 3,1 | nineteen days, and he was now sustained by his own merit alone against
3129 5,8 | the Bishops of Nepi and of Sutri, and the people also sent
3130 10,1 | made between vassals and suzerain; accordingly he brought
3131 10,1 | league with the circle of Swabia to war against the Swiss,
3132 5,3 | Vesuvius was threatening to swallow up Naples. He must therefore
3133 14,2 | reached his own rooms he had swallowed an antidote known only to
3134 15,1 | world: for a moment Europe swayed, for the column which supported
3135 5,3 | aforesaid Sultan Bajazet do swear by the true God, who has
3136 5,7 | VIII and Alexander VI were swearing a friendship which neither
3137 14,3 | nailed down to his bed, sweating off the effects the poison
3138 7,3 | table, and as the air was sweet and mild they walked about
3139 Pro,1| gentle-tongued women of his, those sweet-voiced poets, his palaces and their
3140 6,4 | During the night the torrent swelled so high that the Italian
3141 7,1 | enemy's artillery by the swiftness and accuracy of their attack.
3142 7,4 | what was that black thing swimming about. 'Sir,' said one of
3143 1,1 | Pope Sixtus V, the sublime swineherd, who did so many things
3144 3,2 | head of a bull at a single sword-stroke; moreover, he was arrogant,
3145 11,5 | their general: they all swore, on their honour, that if
3146 7,4 | the other by the feet, swung it three times, and the
3147 12,4 | were set on the floor in a symmetrical pattern, and a great quantity
3148 13,1 | was carrying forward that system of invasion which was to
3149 8,1 | Alexander was too good a tactician to leave his daughter married
3150 16,2 | Caesar's courage and skilful tactics, Prince Alarino was beaten
3151 11,2 | lashing his sides with his tail. Then he rushed upon Alfonso,
3152 4,1 | was constantly filled with tailors, jewellers, and merchants
3153 Epi,2| well, are using all their talents, art, endeavours, to banish
3154 8,4 | this magnificent gift and talked with him for nearly a couple
3155 5,4 | been a head higher than the tallest of the Gascons. But they
3156 3,2 | insincere. According to Tammasi, he was great among the
3157 15,1 | 2000 soldiers with Charles Taneo at their head, with the
3158 9,2 | of the Duomo and on the tap of the Campanile. ~ ~ ~
3159 10,1 | Castelnuovo, Ponte Corona, Tartone, and Alessandria, while
3160 3,3 | friends. Still, as their tastes were very different, hatred
3161 3,2 | cavalier with pale skin and tawny beard whom Raphael shows
3162 11,1 | pilgrimage. For gathering in this tax a veritable army of collectors
3163 5,8 | infantry, and each of them was taxed for a contingent; thus the
3164 9,2 | would strike, the great teacher who must be involved in
3165 Pro,1| its aim the altering of teaching that was human, not faith
3166 9,1 | result was that the master's teachings were issued from other lips,
3167 3,1 | acquiring, his historian tells us, even in the eyes of
3168 5,8 | of his estates, and was temporarily in hiding there. This reply
3169 5,8 | an occasion to break the temporary peace which he had granted
3170 15,3 | exposing himself to the temptation of keeping them later on,
3171 9,2 | involve in his destruction the tempter who plunged so many souls
3172 2,3 | their eyes, above all with tennis, a game at which he very
3173 1,3 | the multitude. At last the tenth stroke trembled, then vanished
3174 6,1 | facts, when he heard at San Teranza that his vanguard, commanded
3175 15,3 | for he was weary of these tergiversations, and feared a trap; so he
3176 5,4 | Bishops of Concordia and Terni, and his confessor, Mansignore
3177 5,4 | Calabria went up an the terrace which tops the fortress,
3178 9,2 | reform such as this was terrifying to Alexander; so he resolved
3179 5,5 | shields each telling of territorial estates, and their colours
3180 5,3 | But here was this house tettering, and a volcano more terrible
3181 15,1 | Orsina, his father. Caesar thanked Colanna, and replied that
3182 9,2 | preparations in, just as in the theatre every actor has his dressing-room;
3183 Pro,1| inspiration: he was not a theologian, but a prophet. Yet, although
3184 Epi,1| than here will you find theologians capable of contending with
3185 4,5 | crew who were at Genoa or thereabouts had already brought over
3186 5,6 | shall receive in exchange therefor such boons as he may demand.
3187 5,6 | Divine Providence places thereon; but the Most Christian
3188 10,2 | rights, and revenues accruing thereunto. This had so greatly increased
3189 2,2 | with a large head, a short thick neck, broad chest, and high
3190 6,3 | suddenly found himself in the thickest ranks of the Stradiotes,
3191 5,2 | street he had passed through thickly lined with people, but every
3192 1,2 | a cavity hollowed in its thickness enclosed a letter, which
3193 11,5 | stolen from me, and the thief is the most treacherous,
3194 2,2 | and high shoulders; his thighs and legs were long and thin;
3195 13,5 | march against you, ought, he thinks, to excite your gratitude
3196 11,4 | took the third to Cesena, a third-rate town, which was thus suddenly
3197 9,3 | suffering from hunger and thirst and beginning to get impatient:
3198 5,7 | him, and round the table thirteen cardinals. The king at once,
3199 4,3 | who had sat for the last thirty-four years in the Signoria. The
3200 15,2 | Conclave was composed in all of thirty-seven cardinals, he with his twelve
3201 6,4 | Atella, after a siege of thirty-two days, on the 20th of July,
3202 11,4 | the Pope's vicar-general; Thomas, archbishop of Strigania;
3203 7,3 | grasp the very sharpest thorns, whatever reluctance his
3204 3,1 | the discussion of the most thorny cases. All the same, he
3205 3,3 | now that we have come to a thorough understanding, Caesar, receive
3206 10,3 | and her lover, too: the threat had reached Caesar's ears,
3207 8,4 | nailed on that more than three-quarters of their number, were lost
3208 12,4 | liveries. Among this brilliant throng might be seen Olivero and
3209 5,2 | sallied forth in crowds, and thronged about the piazza of the
3210 1,3 | mattered rain, lightning, or thunder? They were preoccupied with
3211 1,3 | balcony, and between two thunderclaps, in a moment of silence
3212 11,1 | coming up. Foreseeing a thunderstorm, he ordered the cardinal
3213 11,5 | motionless, and, as it were, thunderstruck; then suddenly, with a cry
3214 7,3 | departure was fixed for Thursday the 15th of June: at the
3215 Epi,1| it was no use trying to thwart him, and wished him good
3216 3,1 | had cast its eyes on the tiara only after cherishing hopes
3217 12,4 | evenings in the days of Tiberius, Nero, and Heliogabalus,
3218 1,1 | the smoke of the voting tickets which were being burned,
3219 2,3 | reasons of state come in, the ties of blood and parentage are
3220 3,3 | perpetually in the heart of a tiger. The two brothers none the
3221 5,4 | German soldiers, with short tight coats of various colours:
3222 13,4 | not bear to appear more timid than his companions, than
3223 Pro,1| took a yet more deathlike tinge, while at the same time
3224 11,1 | published two bulls, one to levy tithes of all ecclesiastical revenues
3225 11,5 | of flattering nobles and titled courtesans, who were always
3226 5,8 | feelings by bestowing all the titles, offices, and fiefs on those
3227 4,4 | arranged at Vicovaro, near Tivoli, and the three interested
3228 1,2 | bishop who examines it: to-morrow is a feast-day; to the Cardinals
3229 16,1 | the governor honoured the toast: Caesar at once began his
3230 7,1 | from the towns of Perugia, Todi, and Narni, where the inhabitants
3231 Epi,1| you will postpone this toil till you have committed
3232 3,3 | and incessantly though he toiled to establish our fortunes,
3233 11,3 | Alfonso made an elegant toilet, and about ten o'clock at
3234 10,2 | lavishing upon him all the tokens of affection he had shown
3235 5,6 | felt a desire to visit the tombs of the holy apostles, has
3236 6,2 | fordable to-day, might from tomorrow onwards prove an insurmountable
3237 2,1 | of the dead, close to the Tophana Gate; and on the 30th of
3238 5,4 | up an the terrace which tops the fortress, and assured
3239 9,3 | the scaffold, snatched the torch from the executioner's hand
3240 5,5 | artillery-men there was a torch-bearer, this illumination gave
3241 12,4 | more brightly under the torchlight and brilliant illuminations,
3242 5,1 | neighbour of his, the Marquis of Torderiovo, had betrayed to the French
3243 16,1 | window and bed curtains, tore them into strips, joined
3244 11,2 | started by professional toreadors: after they had exhibited
3245 15,2 | and then returning by the Torione gate; but Caesar anticipated
3246 7,4 | On the morrow, the pope, tormented by the gloomiest presentiments
3247 4,4 | cunning as his father in the tortuous game of politics so much
3248 9,3 | confessions were the fault of his torturers, and the vengeance would
3249 2,2 | he showed himself always totally wanting in prudence and
3250 4,5 | The balls, fetes, and tourneys began with a magnificence
3251 1,1 | which on the eastern side towers above the court of St. Damasius;
3252 3,4 | surroundings than the ordinary townsman of our day. Further, there
3253 7,2 | the same colour. One hand toyed mechanically with his gloves,
3254 4,3 | faithful to their political tradition, which had gained for them
3255 9,2 | but in this instance the tragedy that was about to be played
3256 2,2 | dint of executions, had tranquillised his kingdom and smoothed
3257 10,4 | Hermes, and finally, after transferring the wretched Ludovico from
3258 8,2 | that they are literally translated from Burchard's Latin journal. ~ ~
3259 8,3 | to set before him are a translation from the journal of the
3260 12,3 | Through her those rights were transmitted to the house of La Trimouille
3261 1,3 | to it, so great were the transports of joy and impatience among
3262 1,3 | were heaped up over all the Trastevere; but to this crowd what
3263 12,4 | ones. ~Then the illustrious travellers embarked on their return
3264 6,1 | clock in the afternoon, to traverse the whole of the Italian
3265 12,3 | his son's conquests, and traversing all the Romagna with Lucrezia,
3266 14,2 | to bring two glasses on a tray, poured out this wine, which
3267 11,5 | and the thief is the most treacherous, the most impious, the most
3268 3,2 | saint, they may at least tread in the path of a true pontiff.
3269 12,2 | to Louis, who profited by treasonable acts he did not have to
3270 15,4 | accompanied by the pope's treasurer and many of his servants.
3271 4,5 | been obliged to sign three treaties of peace that were all vexatious
3272 5,7 | and, like an emperor's son treating with a king, kissed his
3273 Pro,1| Ermolao Barbaro, author of the treatise 'On Celibacy', and of 'Studies
3274 11,2 | one instant motionless and trembling, then fell upon his knees,
3275 5,1 | two butcheries produced a tremendous sensation at Florence, the
3276 2,2 | if we are to believe La Tremouille) little of body but great
3277 3,4 | Spaniard beneath her golden tresses, a courtesan beneath her
3278 14,3 | Peter's, where, set on trestles, it was exposed to public
3279 2,3 | she owned the marches of Treviso, which comprehend the districts
3280 11,1 | Capanile on his way to the tribune of benedictions, a enormous
3281 1,1 | elected her kings, consuls, tribunes, emperors, and popes: thus
3282 12,1 | Faenza, the payment of a tribute of 9000 ducats, and the
3283 4,2 | Gandia, the principality of Tricarico, the counties of Chiaramonte,
3284 4,5 | Antoine de Bessay, Baron de Tricastel, bidding him take to Asti
3285 5,8 | power, by negotiations, by trickery, or by actual force. The
3286 7,2 | as he was to his master's tricks of circumlocution, the bravo
3287 2,3 | Aquileia; Istria, except Trieste; she owned, on the east
3288 7,2 | horses, caparisoned in velvet trimmed with silver fringe, and
3289 3,4 | mocking parody of the heavenly Trinity. ~Nothing occurred at first
3290 12,4 | drew forth a great many trinkets, chains, necklaces of pearls
3291 5,1 | Magnificent, continued its triumphal march through Tuscany. ~
3292 2,3 | of his father, and yet he triumphed over his enemies, one after
3293 1,3 | er the world victorious trod;~ But Alexander still extends
3294 5,8 | the league was made known, Tropea and Amantea, which had been
3295 7,2 | and hat, and pass my time trotting about from church to church,
3296 5,8 | the sole author of all the troubles that the pope and his family
3297 5,3 | a peace or a two years' truce, or else when, for any reason
3298 1,1 | shooting up from the middle of truncated columns, walls of unequal
3299 12,4 | his head, severed from the trunk, stuck up on the end of
3300 7,4 | night had fallen, his most trusty and honoured servants carried
3301 9,1 | sacrifice. So actually on Shrove Tuesday a considerable number of
3302 9,3 | sent as deputies Gioacchino Turriano of Venice, General of the
3303 13,4 | upon Tuscany, because the Tuscans were his friends; but that
3304 10,4 | mounting hurriedly with twenty-five men, he first surrounded
3305 10,1 | single gun had been fired. Twenty-one days had sufficed for the
3306 Pro,1| Este, and at the age of twenty-three, summoned by an irresistible
3307 Pro,1| leaning against one of the twisted columns of the bed-head,
3308 15,2 | Caesar, who was numerically two-thirds weaker than his enemy, saw
3309 2,3 | secondary States, and of little tyrannies, Rome was set on high, the
3310 2,2 | to the ownership of the Tyrol. He was therefore too full
3311 2,2 | five vowels, a, e, i, o, u, the initial letters of
3312 3,2 | painted him as a monster of ugliness, while others, on the contrary,
3313 5,2 | and he would give them his ultimatum in writing. ~This reply
3314 13,4 | Metaurus, a little river of Umbria which runs into the Adriatic
3315 11,3 | Peter's; so he went out unaccompanied through one of the garden
3316 13,4 | impossible to make a defence unaided, had retired, the one to
3317 Pro,2| entered it, with face and step unaltered; far above human things
3318 6,2 | of defeat. This want of unanimity was the reason why the answer
3319 8,3 | Caesar's wishes, gave a unanimous vote, and the pope, as we
3320 11,5 | and the Council of Ten; unannounced, he rushed into their midst,
3321 Pro,1| necessities) were useless and unavailing, and so he had come to understand
3322 11,3 | day with a ceremony not unbecoming in itself, though unsuited
3323 9,3 | retracted. But scarcely was he unbound, and was still lying on
3324 5,8 | whereas Michelotto felt an unbounded admiration for Caesar, Caesar
3325 8,3 | wearing only the Moor's dress unbuttoned in front; the man wore his
3326 Pro,1| kneeling on the flags, praying unceasingly before a wooden crucifix,
3327 1,2 | one of the columns of the uncompleted basilica, and gliding slowly
3328 1,2 | him with an impatience so unconcealed that both as they saw him
3329 11,3 | footing and fell to the ground unconscious; his assassins, supposing
3330 5,6 | first president stood up, uncovered, and resumed his discourse
3331 11,4 | short conference without uncovering his face. M. de Villeneuve
3332 6,3 | seeing the baggage alone and undefended, rushed after that in hope
3333 15,1 | beforehand: the Vatican was undermined, he declared, and if his
3334 16,1 | When this was done, he undid the bandages on his leg,
3335 11,2 | husband, and they left her undisturbed in her government of Spoleto. ~
3336 11,5 | could only work his own undoing, either his bride should
3337 13,3 | to a conference they were undone. Indeed, Caesar had the
3338 3,3 | no claims but such as our undue partiality accorded them;
3339 5,5 | new and strange, listened uneasily to a dull sound which got
3340 1,1 | truncated columns, walls of unequal height, and half-carved
3341 4,5 | was going forward into an unfamiliar country, with a declared
3342 7,3 | brought him a letter. The duke unfastened it, colouring up with pleasure;
3343 6,1 | organisation for which he was quite unfitted, turned his eyes towards
3344 5,2 | VIII sat with covered head, unfolded a paper and began to read,
3345 5,4 | drums beating, ensigns unfurled. It was composed, says Paolo
3346 6,3 | continuing to fight with unheard-of courage and running the
3347 5,4 | remaining conditions were so unimportant that they could be brought
3348 10,2 | him weakest, he ordered an uninterrupted fire, to be continued until
3349 8,1 | from heaven the right of uniting and disuniting. There was
3350 3,4 | of making its power and unity conspicuous in the sight
3351 3,2 | father's election at the University of Pisa, where he was a
3352 2,2 | AUSTRIAE EST IMPERARE ORBI UNIVERSO." ~This means ~"It is the
3353 | unlike
3354 | unlikely
3355 5,8 | admiration for Caesar, Caesar had unlimited confidence in Michelotto.
3356 7,4 | take away what I had just unloaded, when, about two o'clock
3357 8,3 | the executioner." ~This unlooked for accident, taken as a
3358 12,4 | best knows how to make and unmake men according to their deserts.~
3359 5,5 | dwelling-place; but the pope was unmoved by these demonstrations;
3360 7,2 | for her was strange and unnatural, had induced her to defer
3361 5,8 | marriage with Pesaro was unoccupied, and himself returned to
3362 11,2 | his search had not been unrewarded, far he had recognized one
3363 8,2 | and four guards. The clerk unrolled the paper he carried and
3364 9,3 | passed through the fire unscathed. ~But it was only the sacred
3365 1,2 | crown piece; but this crown unscrewed, and in a cavity hollowed
3366 6,4 | had even attempted, though unsuccessfully, as perhaps His Holiness
3367 11,3 | unbecoming in itself, though unsuited to his high rank. Dan Francesca
3368 8,2 | sentence; the two servants untied a packet, and, stripping
3369 4,5 | scarcity of food or from the unwholesome air, both of which were
3370 5,4 | parleyings to which his unwillingness must give rise, Piccolomini
3371 5,8 | for ostensible object the upholding of the majority of the pope,
3372 11,1 | breaking it in; smashing the upper flooring, it fell into the
3373 Epi,2| himself a chaste, sober, and upright man, that he had seen enough.
3374 1,3 | followed the tumult and uproar which had been heard a few
3375 3,1 | Valencia for Rome. ~This letter uprooted Roderigo from the centre
3376 12,1 | the man to have his plans upset for nothing, made conditions
3377 9,1 | fatherland and the Borgias of upsetting the faith, who demanded
3378 13,5 | but scarcely had they gone upstairs and into the first room
3379 9,3 | song was yet heard mounting upward to the gates of heaven. ~~
3380 13,1 | same day that the Duke of Urbina's troops started for Camerino,
3381 4,5 | that he had sent Pierre d'Urfe, his grand equerry, on in
3382 Epi,1| perdition; so he began to urge him gently as a friend to
3383 4,5 | Doria palaces. Lastly, he urged that ridicule and disgrace
3384 5,6 | unto him, is here to beg urgently that you accord him three
3385 Epi,1| fair words the merchant uses to seduce a customer, the
3386 2,2 | consoled himself for these usurpations by repeating the maxim,
3387 7,1 | Alexander, as he could not utilise these against the Orsini,
3388 6,1 | too had pitched his tents, utilising for his defence the natural
3389 11,3 | consequence ready to be utilized in the pope's new political
3390 11,4 | defending himself to the uttermost, although he had been forsaken
3391 14,1 | their simony paid and their vacated offices sold, the pope made
3392 15,3 | surrender of the fortresses of Val di Lamane and Faenza, by
3393 8,4 | an him the investiture of Valence, in Dauphine, with the title
3394 8,4 | Whitsunday following the Duke of Valentois received the order of St.
3395 13,1 | and the other towns of the valley of Chiana, which submitted
3396 4,1 | wear a collar of pearls valued by itself at 100,000 ducats,
3397 Pro,2| God will forgive your vanities, your adulterous pleasures,
3398 10,1 | of Imola and Farli, the Variani of Camerina, the Montefeltri
3399 14,1 | the pope's fancy, would vary from 10,000 to 40,000 ducats; ~
3400 14,3 | silver and many precious vases; all these were carried
3401 15,1 | column which supported the vault of the political edifice
3402 9,2 | offered to go down into the vaults of the cathedral with his
3403 4,5 | an enterprise so loudly vaunted beforehand, for whose successful
3404 10,3 | gliding meanwhile through his veins; then going to bed in perfect
3405 5,7 | stopped in the evening at Velletri. There the king, who had
3406 13,2 | father Gian, Antonio di Venafro, the envoy of Pandolfo Petrucci,
3407 13,1 | lord, and his two sons, Venantio and Hannibal; the eldest
3408 14,3 | CHRISTUM:~ EMERAT ILLE PRIUS, VENDERE JUKE POTEST"; ~that is, ~ "
3409 14,3 | inscribed upon the tomb: ~ "VENDIT ALEXANDER CLAVES, ALTARIA,
3410 1,1 | sacred edifice, with its venerable associations, in which Charlemagne
3411 11,1 | Madonna, was exposed for the veneration of the faithful in a chapel
3412 15,3 | under the command of Giacopo Venieri, who had failed to capture
3413 10,3 | sold for 5000 ducats to Ventura Bonnassai, a merchant of
3414 Epi,2| see his friend, and Jean ventured to ask what he thought of
3415 2,3 | his prudence, which often verged upon duplicity. He had a
3416 11,5 | hospitality respected by the veriest barbarian, a man who will
3417 11,1 | gathering in this tax a veritable army of collectors was instituted,
3418 2,3 | Bergamo, Brescia, Crema, Verona, Vicenza, and Padua; she
3419 9,3 | anyone must see who knew the versatile spirit of the public, would
3420 6,1 | in Calabria; Etienne de Vese, commander at Gaeta; and
3421 5,6 | the room where the sacred vestments are put off; the pope feigned
3422 1,1 | the actual site where the vestry now is, it looked like a
3423 4,5 | treaties of peace that were all vexatious enough, viz. with Henry
3424 2,3 | his nephew, the Count of Viana, who, basing his claim on
3425 16,2 | an obscure village called Viane, in a wretched skirmish
3426 1,3 | struck slowly, each stroke vibrating in the heart of the multitude.
3427 11,4 | of Oristagny, the Pope's vicar-general; Thomas, archbishop of Strigania;
3428 3,3 | confided to our weak hands the vice-chancellorship, the vice-prefecture of
3429 10,3 | clerk of the chamber and vice-legate of Viterbo, having fallen
3430 3,3 | vice-chancellorship, the vice-prefecture of Rome, the generalship
3431 2,3 | Brescia, Crema, Verona, Vicenza, and Padua; she owned the
3432 6,1 | of the house of Bourbon, viceroy; d'Aubigny, of the Scotch
3433 4,5 | he started himself from Vienne, in Dauphine, on the 23rd
3434 11,5 | the most serene republic viewed the outrage perpetrated
3435 10,1 | and bestowed the town of Vigavano on Trivulce as a reward
3436 3,4 | establishment of a strong and vigilant police force, and a tribunal
3437 Pro,1| wooden crucifix, fevered by vigils and penances, he soon passed
3438 12,1 | the capital by a single vigorous stroke; so he made his entry
3439 5,4 | nephew of Pius II, who had vigorously opposed the house of Anjou;
3440 4,5 | fleets were in the ports of Villefranche, Marseilles, and Genoa,
3441 3,3 | fury of the rabble and the vindictive hatred of the Roman barons,
3442 12,1 | his trees, torn down his vines, and destroyed a few fountains
3443 11,5 | assassin; he is a man who will violate every law, even, the law
3444 8,2 | teeth became the teeth of a viper, and the friend died cursing
3445 6,1 | round to his side by the virtuous act of restoring the citadels
3446 5,4 | vanguard of the enemy was visible on the horizon. At once
3447 5,5 | nearer and nearer. The earth visibly trembled, the glass shook
3448 9,1 | making a house-to-house visitation, claiming all profane books,
3449 12,4 | Piombino, the pope and his son visited the island of Elba, where
3450 12,3 | interval Alexander had been visiting the scenes of his son's
3451 15,3 | recognised in his nocturnal visitor Giuliano della Rovere. ~
3452 8,4 | France, where the illustrious visitors received so numerous a guard,
3453 6,3 | blows that smashed in the visors of the dismounted horsemen. ~ ~
3454 13,5 | 5~On their side, Vitellazzo, Gravina, Orsino, and Oliverotto,
3455 8,1 | according to the Cardinal of Viterba, not even in the days of
3456 6,1 | de Lilly, the bailiff of Vitry, and Graziano Guerra respectively
3457 10,2 | his plans to his father viva voce and to receive his
3458 10,2 | plans to his father viva voce and to receive his final
3459 10,1 | Annona, Arezzo, Novarro, Voghiera, Castelnuovo, Ponte Corona,
3460 4,4 | game of politics so much in vogue at the Italian courts. He
3461 5,3 | this house tettering, and a volcano more terrible than her own
3462 12,2 | Aubigny, having passed the Volturno, approached to lay siege
3463 6,4 | Calabria with six thousand volunteers and a considerable number
3464 4,3 | at some magnificent and voluptuous royal audience of ancient
3465 8,3 | wishes, gave a unanimous vote, and the pope, as we may
3466 14,1 | repeat here what we read, and vouch for nothing ourselves, lest
3467 2,2 | simply founded on the five vowels, a, e, i, o, u, the initial
3468 3,2 | but we have acted thus, vowing an inward vow that when
3469 7,4 | the raven's croak of the 'vox populi', let himself fall
3470 5,8 | So Caesar soon abandoned vulgar schemes of this kind and
3471 14,2 | carried about a consecrated wafer, neither steel nor poison
3472 7,4 | him food except with the wailings of a woman or a roar as
3473 16,1 | him; by day it hung at his waist, by night it was under his
3474 7,4 | there, his gloves in his waistband, gold in his purse; the
3475 14,1 | sideboard apart, bidding the waiters on no account to touch it,
3476 10,3 | become a kind of marketable ware, always ready for sale to
3477 5,7 | from the serpent you have warmed in your bosom. He has bitten
3478 10,1 | In vain did his friends warn him to distrust this man,
3479 15,4 | presented himself armed with his warrant before Don Diego Chinon;
3480 5,7 | Caesar; "be calm; blood shall wash out disgrace. Consider a
3481 5,4 | a sentinel placed on a watch-tower at the top of the Castle
3482 7,4 | the cool night air, and watching lest other men should come
3483 12,1 | that produced salubrious waters. This did not hinder Caesar
3484 11,2 | beginning to gain upon him, waving a red cloak in his left
3485 6,4 | fashion he contrived to weaken his neighbours each by means
3486 6,2 | between them. The French army, weakened by the establishment of
3487 15,2 | was numerically two-thirds weaker than his enemy, saw his
3488 8,4 | a man of two conspicuous weaknesses, one as deplorable as the
3489 4,1 | them, his favourite, was to wear a collar of pearls valued
3490 4,3 | 3~The wedding of the two bastards was
3491 7,4 | the retreat were she was weeping for the Duke of Gandia,
3492 7,3 | have made his power far weightier than it is. The man who
3493 8,4 | numerous a guard, and were welcomed by a populace so eager to
3494 5,2 | few evasive words to the welcoming speeches which were addressed
3495 14,3 | Naples. Four posts, strongly welded to the floor and ceiling,
3496 16,2 | certain, from his master's well-known courage, that disaster had
3497 2,1 | the South Spain, in the West France, and in the North
3498 6,1 | infantry. Besides, on the western slope of the hills there
3499 6,2 | once, the riders getting wet up to their knees, and the
3500 12,4 | made procession through the whale town, greeted by cries of "
3501 7,1 | time Vitelli's light troops wheeled upon the flank, following
3502 5,8 | that he knew nothing of his whereabouts, but was certain that he
3503 3,2 | so far above our deserts, whereto it has pleased the Divine