Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . ll this indecentbuffoonery was the young rakeCardinal Pietro, who won specialapplause for his mise-en-scene of a play called Susanna andthe Elders, acted by Florentine comedians. Six months later this dignitary of the Church died, aged 28,worn out by his licentious excesses; whereupon Pope Sixtustransferred his patronage to another nephew, or bastard—namely Girolamo Riar
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . ll this indecentbuffoonery was the young rakeCardinal Pietro, who won specialapplause for his mise-en-scene of a play called Susanna andthe Elders, acted by Florentine comedians. Six months later this dignitary of the Church died, aged 28,worn out by his licentious excesses; whereupon Pope Sixtustransferred his patronage to another nephew, or bastard—namely Girolamo Riario, Pietros brother, till then an obscurecustom-house official at Savona—who in a short time foundhimself lord of Forli and Imola and husband of CaterinaSforza—that lady of Forli whose daring and loyalty were sosmirched by her vengeful cruelty.^ About the same time 1 He was assassinated in 1488, but Caterina continued to hold the townsfor her son, Ottaviano, until in 1499 Caesar Borgia captured them. TheRiarii-Sforza family is still extant in Naples. A fine portrait of Caterina byVasari is in the Palazzo Vecchio; for she later married Giovanni Medici andbecame mother of the famous Giovanni delle Bande Nere. Q 241. Catbrina Sforza [Vasari) ITALY FROM DANTE TO TASSO another Rovere, namely Giovanni, brother of the Pope, waswedded to the daughter of Frederic of Montefeltro, whomSixtus created Duke of Urbino (see Table X). In 1477another of the same litter was made cardinal—namely B-affaeleRiario, a boy of 17, still at school at Pisa—nephew or bastardof the deceased prelate, Pietro. Now at this time Pope Sixtus was beginning to discoverthat his friendship with Ivorenzo de Medici was a mistake,seeing that but for the Medici his proUgd, Girolamo, mighthave made himself master of the whole of Romagna, andof Tuscany to boot. He determines to undermine, if possible,the power of these Medici, and begins by transferring fromthe Medicean bank in Rome to that of the Pazzi his vastc
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