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Title: Lucretia Borgia
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Gregorovius, Ferdinand, 1821-1891 Garner, John Leslie
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 Borgia family--Biography Femmes fatales--Italy--Rome--Biography Renaissance--Italy Rome (Italy)--Court and courtiers--History--16th century Italy--History--1492-1559.
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
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ime have been different from what it isto-day. There were casinos and wine houses on the slopesof Monte Mario—whose summit was occupied even at thattime by a villa belonging to the Mellini—and on the hillsbeyond the Flaminian Way. Nicholas V had restored thebridge over the Tiber, and also begun a tower nearby, whichCalixtus III completed. Between the Ponte Molle and thePorta del Popolo there was then,—just as there is now,—awretched suburb. At the bridge crossing the Tiber they found a weddingescort composed of the senators of Rome, the governor ofthe city, and the captain of police, accompanied by twothousand men, some on foot and some mounted. Half abowshot from the gate the cavalcade met Casars suite.First came six pages, then a hundred mounted noblemen,followed by two hundred Swiss clothed in black and yel-low velvet with the arms of the Pope, birettas on theirheads, and bearing halberds. Behind them rode the Dukeof Romagna with the ambassador of France at his side, 210 UT
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AEEIVAL OF THE BRIDAL ESCORT who wore a French costume and a golden sash. Aftergreeting each other mid the blare of trumpets, the gentle-men dismounted from their horses. Caesar embraced Car-dinal Ippolito and rode at his side as far as the city gate. IfValentinos following numbered four thousand and the cityofficials two thousand more, it is difficult to conceive, takingthe spectators also into account, how so large a number ofpeople could congregate before the Porta del Popolo. Therows of houses which now extend from this gate could nothave been in existence then, and the space occupied by theVilla Borghese must have been vacant. At the gate thecavalcade was met by nineteen cardinals, each accom-panied by two hundred persons. The reception here,owing to the oration, required over two hours, conse-quently it was evening when it was over. Finally, to the din of trumpets, fifes, and horns, thecavalcade set out over the Corso, across the Campo di Fiore,for the Vatican, where it was salu

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