In this matter, assertion--coupled with whorling periods of vituperation--have ever been considered by the accusers all that was necessary to establish the accusations.

It has never, for instance, been considered necessary to cite the names of the cardinals composing that regiment of victims.

That, of course, would be to challenge easy refutation of the wholesale charge; and refutation is not desired by those who prefer the sensational manner.
The omission may, in part at least, be repaired by giving a list of the cardinals who died during the eleven years of the pontificate of Alexander VI.

Those deaths, in eleven years, number twenty-one--representing, incidentally, a percentage that compares favourably with any other eleven years of any other pontificate or pontificates.

They are: Ardicino della Porta.