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"Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, 'Caesar wills that you die. but it was a legate a latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, 'His holiness requests you to dine with him. "Spada set out about two o'clock to San Pierdarena.
Besides, you forget, Caesar, an indigestion declares itself immediately, while a prick or a bite occasions a delay of a day or two. Caesar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner. "The table was laid in a vineyard belonging to the pope, near San Pierdarena, a charming retreat which the cardinals knew very well by report.
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