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Showing posts with label Jacob Burckhardt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacob Burckhardt. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Quote of the Day (Jacob Burckhardt, on the Borgias)

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“Whether it were that father [Rodrigo Borgia, a.k.a. Pope Alexander VI] and son [Cesare Borgia] had drawn up a formal list of proscribed pe...
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