Show THE WORLDS GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE by dodd uil mead the ric boo boi sian T tr REM people sot sat in an upper room ii f it gorgeous million palace one night in ili hy the rhe eldest of the trio was wak u singularly beautiful woman of ial perhaps forty she was rosa hosn itie alle fail relt italian ot of tier her duy tile the rooms two other occupants were ere tier her son aud and daughter cesare find they were tile lie signal that announce the tit election of rodrigo llor gla fattier father of cesore cesaire Ce siire anti lucrezia lin us its pope italy in ili the fifteenth century i was waa split up into hito nume numerous rouil petty kingdoms principalities polities and du duchies chles iloie re or less independent of one rie ni not iother I 1 er yet et nil all subject to the lie spiritual author ity lt of if home itolle the pope 1410 ti held vast po territories und armed forces there wag little coalition throughout gnout central and eastern hu rope lope atul italy find ferniany Gerni any were full of ingnor hentes russia was slowly taking shape lii ipe us till independent und and ugilt ed nation the lie forriter western empire waa lint but a dianie and tho eastern empire wits MIS a thing of tile past great erent powers castile und and aragon Ar aETon were just uniting under und r ferdinand and isabella france was recovering recover ing from tile lie successive beatings england libil till given elien tier her though much of tier lier territory wits ft its still in alandi reat i reit britain wits is no not its now itow one nil nation inn for wars with scotland still re 1 11 d nt at ingeri it 4 thus it may bo be seen heen that hint nearly till nil europe wits torii liy bixl fill luikar hick or vol littlon yet it 11 brighter day wits MS d in 1 I 1 i 1 1 l th the P tuilio crushon life Vil stern by capturing constantinople ihu alnis also ending the ague drebin drel lill of re le the olo old western ein pile tills this dream lind had impeded italy italis progress regi and obstructed germany consolidation now that it wun wits a tiling of lie past these lips mid other oilier notions were enabled to 1 I settle kettle down and turn tin i their thoughts lliott atts to progress hence during tile the latter half of the century een tury dawned the era known us its uye tip or rebin 11 I 1 it was the transition period between lie middle ays ages and modern times and in this transition rodrigo bolgla unconsciously play I 1 a strong part borgia bolgla was wag ele pope pop taking till the title alexander in 1192 1492 the year columbus discovered disco descove veed ed america like It lebard ill III und and many another drel lie made a just and wise temporal ruler tie he was a a titan nian of most abandoned personal te rhonal character through the tie fa an vor of his unde uncle pope lope callistia Cal littia tit he had in early life risen aleli in ili tile church now on mounting tile lie chair one of its ills first acts wits v us I 1 to 0 make its 1 i I gli teen yen r old son moil ve ce anre u cardinal ile iio also married ills hit dung daughter ter I 1 to the hie son of it neighboring crince soon 4 oon after she m saw it a liance to make it a better mui mitt ringe so poisoned tier lier husband nt nit slie site Is s also credited with one or more of ills successors dlo vaunt the new popes eldest son aon wim was created a duke lestore dorela pre that rank to a cardinals titi murdered giovanni and left the church for a military career within a very few yeara by battle diplo inay inacy and cold blooded murder cesare had conquered for himself a large larce part of italy and undoubtedly planned to make himself temporal ruler as aa ills his father was the spiritual lord of the entire nation ills his ci eltges elt les crimes crime and an d excesses set italy aghast but ills hla fattier father who was completely under the young mans influence refused to punish or ln in any way check him charles VIII king aln of prance france cast copying eyes on the rich little kingdom of naples und and led an aa anny across the alps to annex it to ili hl own dominions pope alexander barred his bis way and at last by bribes bribe diplomacy and open force combined with a fatal contagion that ravaged the french army drove him back by irm 1503 the plans of pope alexander and cesare borgis were so go far complete that the latter was about to be crowned king of romagna an aa an important step in his plan of ruling italy when fate intervened to in it a most dramatic fashion faigh lon several cardinals who nho had offended the pope were in voted oy dy him to supper poisoned wine flacks flasks were prepared for them by alexander through a servants ml mistake one of the poisoned flagons flagens was set bet before the pope and camare the former was killed and the latter made dangerously ill by the noxious drought draught cesare floreta borgia afterwards told gleeola tile lie wily florentine dip tome lomat nid and writer 1 I had prepared to meet every emergency except the disabling of my father and am myself As it was cesarea Ce enemies gained instant control of the situation the ambitious youth was overthrown and ilia his golden plans crumbled to dust A few later he aled fighting in exile the Borgi att dream of spiritual and temporal empire was forcier at an ead through alexanders of the huly haly papal office a revulsion of feeling tet set in temporal power powei reacted in the throwing off of the retter that had for centuries helped to hold back the nations from p otres ogre s the way was paved for a ret urn to the original aadva purpose of tin the papay y the rhe political of the system reaching their ani scroll under tinder borgia died down doun leavert room for betterment twiler aleut of wh buth chard nd tata |