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Paul II was the first to dread and mistrust the culture of his secretaries, and his three successors, Sixtus, Innocent, and Alexander, accepted dedications and allowed themselves to be sung to the hearts' content of the poets there even existed a 'Borgiad', probably in hexameters but were too busy elsewhere, and too occupied in seeking other foundations for their power, to trouble themselves much about the poet-scholars.
And, finally, contemporary history was now treated in hexameters or distichs, sometimes in a narrative and sometimes in a panegyrical style, but most commonly to the honour of some prince or princely family. We thus meet with a Sforziad, a Borseid, a Laurentiad, a Borgiad, a Trivulziad, and the like.
Paul II was the first to dread and mistrust the culture of his secretaries, and his three successors, Sixtus, Innocent, and Alexander, accepted dedications and allowed themselves to be sung to the hearts' content of the poets there even existed a 'Borgiad, probably in hexameter but were too busy elsewhere, and too occupied in seeking other foundations for their power, to trouble themselves much about the poet-scholars.
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