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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	1,449	5	10.4561	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64740	Anekdota eteroūiaka, or, The secret history of the house of Medicis written originally by that fam'd historian, the Sieur de Varillas ; made English by Ferrand Spence.; Anecdotes de Florence. English	Varillas, Monsieur (Antoine), 1624-1696.; Spence, Ferrand.	1686 (1686)	Wing V112; ESTC R2059	224,910	556

they had rested satisfied with delivering them out of Misery in case they were oppress'd or in helping them to maintain their Family by Consideration if it was Illustriot●s Sixtus his aim was nothing less at his coming to the Papacy than the preferring his to the Highest Dignities of Civil Life He had nine Nephews namely five of his own Name della Rovere who were Children of his three Brothers already dead and four that went by the Names of Riari● Basso and Sanson●o which were the three Families into which his Sisters and one of his Nieces had married Of the five Paternal Nephews two of them were Sons of Rafaele his eldest Brother namely Giuliano and Gi●vani Giuliano had received the Cardinals Cap that became vacant by his Uncle's Exaltation and the Title of Saint Peter in Bonds And because he then testified an Inclination to France he was made Bishop of Carpentras by which means he insinuated himself into the Amity of King Lewis the Eleventh who gave him many Benefices Giovanni had acquired at his Uncle's Cost the Soveraignties of Sora and Sinigaglia in Vmbria and had such a fair Prospect as to fansie he was almost secure of succeeding in the Dutchy of Vrbin by his Marriage with Giovanna onely Daughter to the Famous Federico the Fiest Duke of that State for tho' Federico had a Son call'd Guidubar that Son had so little Health that the Physicians despair'd of his living long enough to leave any thing of his Name to Posterity The Pope's third Nephew was his youngest Brother's onely Son call'd Leonardo He had the Trust of ●refect of Rome and was ally'd to the House of Naples by marrying a Natural Daughter of King Ferrando The fourth and fifth Nephews call'd Christoforo and Domenico were Sons of his Holinesses third Brother and possess'd the Seigneury of Viconovo and several other Noble Lands towards the Coast of ●eno●a But it was not the Excess onely of the Pope's Ambition which rendred it insupportable it being accompanied with a Capriciousness of Humour that was built neither upon Interest nor Probability For tho' Sixtus in all appearance ought to have set a greater value on the five Nephews I have just mention'd than on the four others that onely appertain'd to him on the Womens side tho' all manner of Reasons oblig'd him so to do and tho' Giuliano alone who was the eldest was endued with all the wonderful Qualities which since rendred his Pontificate so famous under the Name of Giulio the Second most certain it is that he could never obtain from his Uncle ●●●her to com●ort himself as Head of the House della Rovere or do the Functions of Cardinal-Nephew or that his Brother or three Cousins should any more than be profit by what was refus'd him In a word Sixtus his strongest Inclinations were ever in favour of his Sisters Children and principally of the eldest who had two namely Piero and Geronimo Riario ●iero had been a Cordelier as well as his Uncle and deserved perhaps thereby the preference in his Friendship He was made Cardinal the same day as Giuliano but had the advantage over him in being declared Cardinal-Nephew and carrying the Bishoprick of Trevisa which Giuliano had begg'd Afterwards he had the richest Benefices conferr'd on him that fell vacant and so powerful was he rendred that he had the greatest Train of any of the Sacred College But his Defects were so great that Fortune alone could neither correct nor cover them for on the one side he was so prodigal that the Revenues of the Papacy could hardly cope with his hideous Expences and in his time it was they first saw at Rome since the Lording Days of the Ancient Caesars a Man who consumed in two years space Two hundred thousand Crowns which he had got from his Uncle and Sixty thousand he had borrow'd He obtain'd for himself the General Legantine Power in Italy and visited by turns in that Quality the Princes and Republicks that his Splendor and Magnificence might be the more seen and ador'd but he had so weakned his Health by the multitude and excess of his Debauches that he had almost wholly lost the use of the most necessary Parts of the Body at Five and twenty years of age Contrariwise his Brother Geronimo on whom the Pope had cast his Eyes to make him his Principal Heir was more severe and had no fondness for any other Divertisement than that of Hunting He loved Action to that degree that after his rate of talking there seem'd not to be any Affairs in the Ecclesiastick State of moment sufficient to employ him He would needs manage all and was vex'd at those who dutifully offer'd to ease him but in return he burnt with the same Fire as his Uncle and the Soveraignty of Forli which he had purchased so dear had onely serv'd to give him the greater disgust to a Private Life And indeed he had conceived so much Aversion to it that he had prevail'd with the Pope to create Cardinals Geronimo Basso his Aunt 's Son and Rafaele Sansonio his Sister's Son and could not endure his other Relations whom he was constrained to leave in the Obscurity of their Birth He had been so cajoll'd by the Duke of Milan that this Prince had match'd him with Caterina Sforza his Natural Daughter and the Pope in consideration of this Alliance had sent on the very Wedding-day a Cardinals Cap to the youngest of the Legitimate Sons of that Duke call'd Ascanio Riario had nothing more to do to compleat his Establishment than to set footing in Vmbria from whence it would have been easie for him to spread himself into Romagna and perhaps likewise into Tuscany but as he had no Troops and that a great deal of Money was needful for the necessary Levies his Uncle made no scruple of setting to sale the Offices of the Chancery and the Court of Rome which under the preceding Popes had ever been the Reward of Ability or Virtue He created five Colleagues through whose Hands all Expeditions of the Datary must pass successively and nine new Offices in the Apostolick Chamber that were purchas'd at excessive Rates He made no Reflexion either upon the ignominious Commerce he was going to introduce on the honest Liberty he was about to strip the Court of Rome of or the Inconveniencies that would ensue from the time when a stop would be put to the Labour and Industry of the most refin'd Italians by retrenching gratuitous Dignities which serv'd them for a Bait and enkindled their Emulation He augmented the ancient Imposts and created new ones He created extraordinary Tenths and likewise brought an Army on foot whereof the Cardinal de San Piero accepted the Legation rather to satisfie his Warlike Humour than out of kindness to Riario whose Prosperity he could not look upon without Envy Federigo d' Vrbin was requested to accept of being General and to engage him to act the more heartily they changed his Generality and Quality of Count