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Giustiniani, writing to his Government in the spring of 1503, informs the Council of Ten that it is the Pope's way to fatten his cardinals before disposing of them that is to say, enriching them before poisoning them, that he may inherit their possessions. It was a wild and sweeping statement, dictated by political animus, and it has since grown to proportions more monstrous than the original.
But everything in Hell seems rather strange, and the place is not at all as it was rumored to be by the priests and the bishops and the cardinals that used to be exhorting me in my fine palace at Breschau." "And where, did you say, is this palace?" "In Noumaria, where I am the Emperor Jurgen.
The Pope, accompanied by his cardinals, went solemnly to the church of Saint Mark to render thanks to God for the grace thus singularly vouchsafed to the Holy See and to all Christendom; and a Te Deum was performed in presence of the same august assemblage. But nothing could exceed the satisfaction which the event occasioned in the mind of Philip the Second.
I never met a man of a mind more ecclesiastical; he loved to dispute and to inform himself of doctrine and the history of sects; and when I showed him the cuts in a volume of Chambers's Encyclopaedia except for one of an ape reserved his whole enthusiasm for cardinals' hats, censers, candlesticks, and cathedrals.
The Emperor and Empress, once crowned, proceeded to the great throne, at the entrance of the church, by the great door, being solemnly led there by the Pope and the Cardinals. The Imperial procession then formed again in the order in which it had come to Notre Dame, the Empress going before the Emperor.
The cloud is still upon him he may forget it for an hour, but each day begins in gloom uncertainty is the only hell. At last he boldly importunes and asks that a day shall be set to try his case. Nobody knows anything about his case! Charges what charges? However, a Committee of Cardinals wish to see him why, yes, Thursday at ten o'clock!
By heavens, it will be one of the grandest things ever seen on the stage, not excepting even the nosegay of Duraja!" I now perceived that one of these young men was a poet, and the other a comedian. The latter advised the former that he should cut out a few of his cardinals, if he did not want to make it impossible for the manager to produce the piece.
"But how shall we get the others to know the intentions of Roderigo?" asked the elder of the two women. "My father has provided for everything, and proposes an easy method; you know, my mother, with what sort of ceremonial the cardinals' dinner is carried in." "Yes, on a litter, in a large basket with the arms of the cardinal far whom the meal is prepared."
And now the trumpets sounded, and the mighty organ thundered forth a welcome, while cardinals and priests lifted their voices, and the clergy sang the "Salvum fac imperatorum nostrum." And ever and anon, through the open windows of the cathedral, the people shouted, "Long live the emperor! Long live our fatherland!"
After his death in 1513, the money- loving cardinals tried to evade the prohibition by proposing that the endowments and offices hitherto held by the chosen candidate should be equally divided among themselves, in which case they would have elected the best-endowed cardinal, the incompetent Raphael Riario.
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