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1 The frequency with which the German historian cites Matarazzo as an authority is oddly inconsistent, considering that when he finds Matarazzo's story of the murder of the Duke of Gandia upsetting the theory which Gregorovius himself prefers, by fastening the guilt upon Giovanni Sforza, he devotes some space to showing with perfect justice that Matarazzo is no authority at all.
Indeed Gregorovius cites the pamphlet as one of the authorities to support Burchard, and to show that what Burchard wrote must have been true; the other authority he cites is Matarazzo, disregarding not only the remarkable discrepancy between Matarazzo's relation and that of Burchard, but the circumstance that the matter of that pamphlet became current throughout Italy, and that it was thus and only thus that Matarazzo came to hear of the scandal.
It is idle of Gregorovius to say that the logic of the crime is inexorable in its assigning the guilt to Cesare fatuous of him to suppose that, as he claims, he has definitely proved Cesare to be his brother's murderer. There is much against Cesare Borgia, but it never has been proved, and never will be proved, that he was a fratricide.
These nephews drop their original name and take their mother's, Italianizing its spelling to Borgia. Their uncle, the Pope, appoints the elder, Don Pedro Luis, Captain of the Church; the second, Don Rodriguez...." "Don Rodriguez?" said Caesar. "In Spanish you can't say Don Rodriguez." "Gregorovius calls him that." "Then Gregorovius, no doubt, knew no Spanish." "In Latin he is called Rodericus."
But the question is not really one of whom you will believe to have been present at that unspeakable performance, but rather whether you can possibly bring yourself to believe that it ever took place as it is related in the Diarium. Gregorovius says, you will observe, "Some orgy of that nature, or something similar, may very well have taken place."
G. F. Young, The Medici, 2 vols. , an extended history of this famous Florentine family from 1400 to 1743; Ferdinand Gregorovius, History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, trans. from 4th German ed. by Annie Hamilton, 8 vols. in 13, a non-Catholic account of the papal monarchy in Italy, of which Vol. VII, Part II and Vol. VIII, Part I treat of Rome about 1500.
Such is the monstrous story! Gregorovius, in his defence of Lucrezia Borgia, refuses to believe that she was present; but he is reluctant to carry his incredulity any further. "Some orgy of that nature," he writes, "or something similar may very well have taken place.
The eleventh chapter of the Principe gives a short sketch of the growth of the temporal power, so framed as to be acceptable to the Medici, but steeped in the most acid irony. See, in particular, the sentence 'Costoro solo hanno stati e non li difendono, hanno sudditi e non li governano, etc. See the dispatch quoted by Gregorovius, Stadt Rom, vol. vii. p. 7, note. Op. Ined. Ricordi No. 28.
Giesebrecht, quoted by Hergenröther, K.G., i. 449. Hergenröther, i. 449-453. Reumont, ii. 6. Reumont, ii. 9. Montalembert, Gregorovius, Kurth. Gregorovius, i. 312, 315. Orosius, Hist., vii. 43. Photius, i. 111. Photius, i. 120. Guizot, Sur la Civilisation en Europe, deuxième leçon. Edict of Valentinian III., in 447. When St.
In this you have some more of what Gregorovius terms "inexorable logic." He kissed him, but he spake no word to him; therefore, they reason, Cesare murdered Gandia. Can absurdity be more absurd, fatuity more fatuous? Lucus a non lucendo! To square the circle should surely present no difficulty to these subtle logicians.
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