Show THE WORLDS GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Q ui by add atad st catap Coin piny ny the borgias T people sat in un till upper room of if a gorgeous roman palace one night lit in 1102 tile hie eldest of the lie trio wua wits it singularly bountiful beautiful woman of perhaps forty stio she wits hosit lit lie fuer t italian of tier her day the rooms two to other occupants were tier son hon und tind daughter cosare cesare anil and lucrezil Luc reIn rezIn they were awaiting the sig nul aul that should announce ounce the election cli citon of rodrigo borgia faglier of desare anil and luerecia Luc Lue reIn rezia ns as popo pope italy lit in the century was split up into numerous pt petty kins king donis pall ties and duchies it moie lore or loss less independent of one another r yet nil all t to tile spiritual luthor ity ll 11 of rome home the pope too held MI posses possessive sivi territories anti forces force there ll itro was little coalition coall tion central uil ril and eastern lu eu rope lope italy ital till and dennim wire full of it minor was ns slowly scowl tik tali ing shape as is tin nil independent and unit milt PI nation millon flip former western empire was uusi but it a name naine and lie eastern custom vill un clr was a tiling of the lie post past great powers castile und and aragon were eia just uniting under rind and Isi isella thella france was ais recover ing from the successive boa beatings tings ell h lind gln given lier her though antich of IKI fier wits is still lit in british li inels grent britain was ais not 08 no one nation for wars N till S still r re burred tit nt alms it may m he bv seon seen that flint nearly oil nil europe wits torn tool kiy ind of to illation yet it brighter dij day atiq s dawning in ili irs 1453 dic turks crushed tin the 1 Ii siti empire by capturing constad constar loplz alnis fill also ending the abie vague 6 ati i 1 ot of re establishing tile old Wo pile this 1 I his irvain had impeded Itt ital ilys s progress all aind d Gerin allys consolla consol ld atlon now no bilat it wits as a thin of the past these aid iii d 0 ti wr till nil eions were MII to settle dovil doimi all anil tuni MIT their thoughts to progress pro gresi flence during the balter lillei half of f lie lilt Fifi nil century cent uty dawna ind di the ern era known ns as the renaissance or rebirth it was MIS tile transition period between tile middle aiges dij is and modern times and lit in ats this lif ditro pinned 11 strong purt part 11 jagla wits MI elected pope taking the title alexander i NI 1 I lit in 11 92 tile air COlu ailius discovered america i lili like lil i richard ill III und and many another coun conn drel lit lie imide it just and wise temporal ral ruler er ito HP was n nian linn of most I l cha character through tile I 1 lie ani fn or of ills i acle cle pope III lip lie had in it early enil life risen high in ill the hurch now on mounting the chair one of ills his first acts was to millie ills his eighteen year eni old foil on ce C carp I 1 ire a cardinal lie ho also inari led ills his daughter lucrezia Lue rezia to lie flip son gon of it aring prince prime soon i after sli slip 0 sn it chance to make a better III ani ringe alige so pol tier lier husband us as she is ib illse cl edited credited with etli polson liiK hig 0 one lie or more of tits ills successors glo the new popes eldest son wits was rented a lue duke borgia preferring flint rank to n murdered giovanni and left dw church for si it military career lt liln a very er few years by b bittle battle diplo anney nine and cold blooded minder cire cesare had bail conquered for himself it chirgo part of italy and undoubtedly planned to ninke litin elf ruler us its tits his father was ns tho alie spiritual lord of the entire nation ills his cruelties cruel ties ci lines and excesses set et italy against but ills 1114 father who ho was completely under tile lie young influence refused to punish or in tiny wily ni check chieck him charles Cli urles vill VIII king of lar france ance cast cin vying pa es on oil ohp lie rich little king kill lorn dom of hapli s and led ili an aminy acro aeliss the alps allis to unisex it to ills own on do millions rope pope alexander aini barred red tits bis way vi und and nt at last in by billens and open forte foree combined with alli i fatal contusion tint that ravaged the 1 frotich rein ti nam di dim ove him back 11 ay URI W tile plans pi ins of 11 bope 0 1 e alet under ander and all retire cesare bolgla were 0 o i for fir complete that flip lie latter waa is to 1 lie t loaned kin or of romagna ni nn nil important 1 11 step in tits his plan of kiil r n italy alien fate intervened d lit in it 11 usi arn matle fashion Se card lital ohp 10 lo had tided the pop were uin lit in toted by b hlin to supper poisoned unit ll 11 iks I ks were cre propped pre for thein hy h Alex tinder through a servants heru nils take hike one of the poison d fla was set before tri th pope and cesare tho the former was w is killed and the hitter iatter amide dangerously ill III by the noxious dr glit cesare Ilor boight iii afterwards told alc olo I 1 the wily feol antille en tille dip alomal and writer 1 I tin hoc prepared to meet evary emergency mer gency except tile the simultaneous UR of my father and myself As it vas was cesares ene niles gained instant control of tile situation the youth was overthrown and his golden plans crumbled to dust A few fe ears years later he died fightlin fight lim in exile elle the berglan dream of spiritual and temporal empire was as forever tit nl an end through alexanders of tile loli billial office u revill sion of feeling set fret in n temporal power umi anum 4 react el in tie file throw throwing inc oft off of tho the fetters that had for K unities to lo hold back tile the nations nit lons from p 1 l tuross ts resa ross the I 1 he way was for a return to flip ali original sacred sac red pull guipo polte P of the papacy rile rhe political of the system 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