Vulgar words in The Tragedies of the Medici (Page 1)
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* * * * * The direct line of Cosimo, "_Il Padre della Patria_," the elder surviving son of Messer Giovanni di Averardo "Bicci" de' Medici, ended with Caterina, Queen of France, the only legitimate child of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, and last _Capo della Repubblica_ of Florence; and Alessandro the Bastard, first Duke of Florence, the illegitimate son of Pope Clement VII.
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_The First Tyrannicide_ "Go at once, ye base-born bastards, or I will be the first to thrust you out--Begone!"
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The two "bastards" were Ippolito, the natural son of Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, and Alessandro, the so-called illegitimate son of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, the virtual ruler of Florence.
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He made no claim to political eminence, and his self-abnegation led to the return to Florence of his more pushful brother, the Cardinal, who was accompanied by Giulio de' Medici, the bastard son of the murdered Giuliano.
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In the Vatican, that "refuge for bastards and foundlings," room was found for two boys, cousins, each the offspring of a Medici father, but illegitimate.
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Ippolito, just fourteen years old, was the bastard son of Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours.
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She and Don Ippolito, the bastard son of Duke Giuliano, are inseparable companions.
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Some of the suite tried to interfere and to pacify the enraged woman, but to no avail, she went on vehemently to denounce the intrusion of the two bastards.
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Go at once, ye base-born bastards, or I will be the first to thrust you out!"
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In 1523, when Clement so artfully persuaded the Florentine ambassadors to request the despatch of the two bastards, Ippolito and Alessandro, to Florence, the only man who maintained his opposition was Messer Giacopo de' Salviati, and he again protested in person both to Clement in Rome and before the _Signoria_ in Florence, against the creation of Alessandro as Head of the Republic.
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Once more this "loyal citizen" withstood the bastard Duke, when he put his hand to the building of the fortress of San Giovanni.
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As for a successor to Alessandro, the Cardinal at first suggested Giulio, the Duke's bastard son, a child of eight years of age.
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The adherents of the dead bastard Duke were neither few nor uninfluential.
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Julius III., in 1552, had bespoken Lucrezia for his bastard nephew, Fabiano Conte Del Monte--a man without resources and of no recognised position nor of good character--it was just a selfish whim of the Pope--the children never saw each other.
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He repeated the conversation the old Duke and he had held about Eleanora degli Albizzi and her child, and advised the Prince, for his own advantage, to inform his father that any steps he might take to advance his _innamorata_ or their bastard, would be resented by him as Regent of the Duchy.
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He was surrounded by heirs-presumptive and aspirants to the throne--Don Antonio, his brother's adopted son; Don Giovanni, his father's legitimatised son by Eleanora degli Albizzi; his brother Piero, and any one of his bastard sons, and several other scions of the house.