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Calixtus made Pedro Luis generalissimo of the Church, prefect of the city, Duke of Spoleto, and finally, vicar of Terracina and Benevento. Thus in this first Spanish nepot was foreshadowed the career which Cæsar Borgia later followed. During the life of Calixtus the Spaniards were all-powerful in Rome.
Pope Sixtus IV loaded them with honors, and great astonishment was caused by a magnificent hunt which Girolamo Riario, the all-powerful nepot, gave for them, at Magliana on the Tiber. These princes departed from Rome on the fourteenth of April.
The Riario palaces were stormed and looted, and Girolamo Riario the Pope's "nepot" threw himself into the castle of Sant' Angelo with his forces. The Orsini and Colonna were in arms, "so that in a few days incendiarism, robbery, and murder raged in several parts of the city.
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