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The Life of Cesare Borgia

CHAPTER XVI
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There is a story that, with life not yet extinct, the poor youth was carried into church by the pitiful crowd.

But here a friar, discovering that he still lived, called in the soldiers and bade them finish him.

This friar, going later through Cagli, was recognized, set upon by a mob, and torn to pieces--in which, if the rest of the tale be true, he was richly served.
Into the theatre of bloodshed came Paolo Orsini from his mission to Valentinois, bringing with him the treaty for signature by the condottieri.

Accustomed as they were to playing fast and loose, they opined that, so far as Urbino was concerned, enough changes of government had they contrived there already.

Vitelli pointed out the unseemliness of once again deposing Guidobaldo, whom they had just reseated upon his throne.


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