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The Life of Cesare Borgia

CHAPTER VII
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Women play no part whatever in his history.

Not once shall you find a woman's influence swaying him; not once shall you see him permitting dalliance to retard his advancement or jeopardize his chances.

With him, as with egotists of his type, governed by cold will and cold intellect, the sentimental side of the relation of the sexes has no place.

With him one woman was as another woman; as he craved women, so he took women, but with an almost contemptuous undiscrimination.

For all his needs concerning them the lupanaria sufficed.
Is this mere speculation, think you?
Is there no evidence to support it, do you say?
Consider, pray, in all its bearings the treatise on pudendagra dedicated to a man of Cesare Borgia's rank by the physician Torella, written to meet his needs, and see what inference you draw from that.


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