Vulgar words in The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes (Page 1)

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 425   ~   ~   ~

Only, as there was as yet no precedent in Church history for a bastard's donning the scarlet, the pope hunted up four false witnesses who declared that Caesar was the son of Count Ferdinand of Castile; who was, as we know, that valuable person Don Manuel Melchior, and who played the father's part with just as much solemnity as he had played the husband's.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 426   ~   ~   ~

The wedding of the two bastards was most splendid, rich with the double pomp of Church and King.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 845   ~   ~   ~

The king at once ordered his division into two detachments, and giving one to Bourbon the bastard, to make head against the Stradiotes, he hurried with the second to the rescue of the van, flinging himself into the very midst of the melee, striking out like a king, and doing as steady work as the lowest in rank of his captains.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,066   ~   ~   ~

The three condemned men were preceded by a constable, who rode backwards on an ass, and held in his hand a long pole, on the end of which were hung, still bleeding, the amputated limbs of a poor Jew who had suffered torture and death for some trifling crime.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,318   ~   ~   ~

Thus the King of France found himself master of Ludovico Sforza and of Ascania, of a legitimate nephew of the great Francesco Sforza named Hermes, of two bastards named Alessandro and Cortino, and of Francesco, son of the unhappy Gian Galeazza who had been poisoned by his uncle.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,916   ~   ~   ~

At these words the Jew exclaimed, "God damn them all!

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