cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos

cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos
cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chos

cortegiania:[T]he Cardinals, shutting themselves up the same night in the Conclave, unanimously chose for Sovereign Pontiff Alessandro of the Family of F a r n e s e […] a man adorned with l e a r n i n g and of s p o t l e s s character, who had exercised the cardinalate with better a r t than he had obtained it, since it was certain that the Pontiff Alexander the Sixth had granted that dignity not to him but to madonna Giulia his sister, a lady of most excellent form. And the Cardinals concurred the more willingly in electing him because he was now approaching the seventieth year of his age, and being reputed of a bad constitution, - which opinion was p r o m o t e d  by himself with some art - they were in hopes that his pontificate would be but short.Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy { x } -- source link


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