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The testimony of a contemporary and a Roman should have weight; but no other writer, except Mariana who evidently bases his statement on Infessura mentions this Domenico, and we shall soon see that there could have been no legal, acknowledged marriage of Vannozza and this unknown man.
1 Istoria d'Italia. Now, bastards were by canon law excluded from the purple, and it is probably upon this circumstance that both Infessura and Guicciardini have built the assumption that some such means as these had been adopted to circumvent the law, and as so often happens in chronicles concerning the Borgias the assumption is straightway stated as a fact.
Against him in particular has the spleen of the papists been directed, for by them his writings are regarded as the poisonous source from which the enemies of the papacy, especially the Protestants, have derived material for their slanders regarding Alexander VI. Their anger may readily be explained, for Burchard's diary is the only work written in Rome with the exception of that of Infessura, which breaks off abruptly at the beginning of 1494 which treats of Alexander's court; moreover, it possesses an official character.
The ceremonies connected with the obsequies of Pope Innocent VIII lasted as prescribed nine days; they were concluded on August 5, 1492, and, says Infessura naively, "sic finita fuit eius memoria." The Sacred College consisted at the time of twenty-seven cardinals, four of whom were absent at distant sees and unable to reach Rome in time for the immuring of the Conclave.
Giulia Farnese, whom Infessura noticed among the wedding guests and described as "the Pope's concubine," caused endless gossip about herself and his Holiness. This young woman surrendered herself to an old man of sixty-two whom she was also compelled to honor as the head of the Church.
This much is certain: the husband was sometimes in the city and at others traveling about in the territory of the Church and in her interest." The ambassador, however, never mentions the name of this man, which, however, Infessura says was Domenico d'Arignano. Ippolito d'Este and Alessandro Farnese were made cardinals the same day.
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