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Updated: May 9, 2025
'The king of Naples, says Guicciardini, 'though he dissembled his grief, told the queen, his wife, with tears tears which he was wont to check even at the death of his own sons that a Pope had been made who would prove most pestilent to the whole Christian commonwealth. The young Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, again, showed his discernment of the situation by whispering in the Conclave to his kinsman Cibo: 'We are in the wolf's jaws; he will gulp us down, unless we make our flight good. Besides, there was in Italy a widely spread repugnance to the Spanish intruders Marrani, or renegade Moors, as they were properly called who crowded the Vatican and threatened to possess the land of their adoption like conquerors.
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