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Updated: September 13, 2025
We understand all poisons, but do not use them." "Has my mother asked you for any?" said the king, breathlessly. "Sire," replied Lorenzo, "Queen Catherine is too able a woman to employ such means. She knows that the sovereign who poisons dies by poison. The Borgias, also Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, are noted examples of the dangers of that miserable resource.
Minnette had promised them a thousand dollars to divide among them if they discovered aboard the raider the treasure of the Borgias, a collection of precious stones, that the captain of the Graf von Posen had taken from an Italian merchant ship which had been captured and sunk by the Germans.
I believe the secret of the poison used is forgotten, but you may read of it in books relating to the Vatican of old days and concerning the old families of Italy. I might mention the Borgias particularly. So you see my difficulty, Wigan. The crime literally reeked of Italy, and we had two Italians amongst our dramatis personae." "A significant fact," I said.
The armor which he donned in their first encounters he never doffed, but waged fierce war with the whole brood of Borgias at Ostia, at the French Court, in Romagna, wherever and whenever he found opportunity. He and five other Cardinals among them his cousin Raphael Riario refused to sell their votes.
and their choice would be appropriate, for where else could the Borgias be so well remembered as in a land famous for its poisons? The children are of a much lighter colour until they begin their life in the open air. The woman, as a type, differs very little from the man. She is rather shorter as is the case with all the pure and mixed Mongolian races.
I'm afraid that I'll have to write my own memoirs, but for posthumous publication, of course." "I'm sure I would like to read them. You have turned murder into a fine art you should have been a contemporary of the Borgias." "Do you know, Mr. Trenholm, I have thought of something like that myself. I am quite proud of my success.
But examine the dead, and how divine the effect of the cause! How go back to the records of the Borgias, and amidst all the scepticisms of times in which, happily, such arts are unknown, unsuspected, learn from the hero of Machiavel how a clasp of the hand can get rid of a foe!
Treaty of Blois Alliance between France, Venice, and the Borgias Lodovico appeals to Maximilian His gift to Leonardo and letter to the Certosini The French and the Venetians invade the Milanese Desertion of Gonzaga and treachery of Milanese captains Loss of Alessandria Panic and flight of Duke Lodovico Surrender of Pavia and Milan to the French Treachery of Bernardino da Corte and surrender of the Castello Triumphal entry of Louis XII.
One little sip of this antidote would have rendered the most virulent poisons of the Borgias innocuous. Doubt not that it will be as efficacious against those of Rappaccini. Bestow the vase, and the precious liquid within it, on your Beatrice, and hopefully await the result."
He had painted bishops, also the wicked Borgias, and many other great personages, but all of these are gone and to this day, no one knows what became of them. At last Titian began one of his greatest paintings, "The Tribute Money," and he set about it because he had been criticised.
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