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"'I guarantee his Holiness absolute immunity from cold, he replied, 'and that none of my subjects shall molest him either going or returning. "'But, I objected, 'granting that you are not the Devil, how the devil, let me ask, do you expect to gain admittance at midnight to the Appartamento Borgia? "'Think you I cannot pass through a stone wall? answered he, and vanished in an instant.
The wizard had kept his word. Not a rat was seen or heard upon the pilgrimage, which was exceedingly toilsome to the aged Pope, from the number of passages to be threaded and doors to be unlocked. At length the companions stood before the portal of the Appartamento Borgia. "Your Holiness must enter alone," Cardinal Barbadico admonished, with manifest reluctance.
Among the paintings of this palace, the most beautiful are Raffaelle's frescos in the stanze and loggie. The principal oil paintings are in the appartamento Borgia, which also contains the Transfiguration, by Raphael. In the Sistine chapel is the Last Judgment by Michael Angelo.
The Jew's political sympathies are invariably patriotic, and he calls himself, not Ebreo, but Veneziano. The famous and beautiful Ca' Doro now belongs to a Jewish family; and an Israelite, the most distinguished physician in Venice, occupies the appartamento signorile in the palace of the famous Cardinal Bembo.
He admitted having made his customary report to his Holiness the preceding night, but knew nothing of any supernatural ratcatcher, and nothing of any midnight rendezvous at the Appartamento Borgia.
The ground-floor is devoted to the small commerce of various kinds already mentioned; the first story above is occupied by tradesmen's families; and on the third or fourth floor is the appartamento signorile.
"I prayed him to be more explicit, and offered to be the bearer of any communication to your Holiness. "'I will unfold myself to no one but the Pope himself, he replied, 'and the interview must take place when and where I please to appoint. Let him meet me this very midnight, and alone, in the fifth chamber of the Appartamento Borgia. "'The Appartamento Borgia! I exclaimed in consternation.
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