Vulgar words in Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 - The Fine Arts (Page 1)
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The two servants are grouped below in conversation, one on each side of the browsing ass.
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The bastards of the house, Ippolito and Alessandro, were expelled from Florence in 1527.
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The Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a fox by nature and infamous through his indulgence for a vicious bastard, was made Pope under the name of Paul III.
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"The avarice of the Pope, but more that of his bastard, then called Duke of Castro," inclined Paul to believe this charge; and Pier Luigi was allowed to farm the case.
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"[380] Of Paul he says that he "believed neither in God nor in any other article of religion;" he sincerely regrets not having killed him by accident during the siege of Rome, abuses him for his avarice, casts his bastards in his teeth, and relates with relish the crime of forgery for which in his youth he was imprisoned in the castle of S.
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Like the jackass in the fable, they put on the dead lion's skin of his manner, and brayed beneath it, thinking they could roar.