Borgia family; Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572; Italy -- History -- 1492-1559
[23]And, incontinent, says Monsignor Hans Burchard the vulgar
tittle-tattling Caerimonarius, (wilfully misquoting the Vulgate Psalm
cxi. 9,) having assumed the papal power, _dispersit et dedit pauperibus
bona sua_, He hath dispersed, He hath given to the poor, his goods.
(_Authorised Version_, _Psalm_ cxii. 9.) To Cardinal Orsini He gave the
Vicechancellor’s palace of San Lorenzo _in Damaso_, the fortalices of
Soria and Monticelli, the revenues of the cathedral of Cartagena in
Spain, worth five thousand ducats (which He had been administering for
Don Cesare (detto Borgia) in accordance with the Breves of the Lords
Xystus P.P. IV and Innocent P.P. VIII), and the legation of the Mark of
Ancona. To Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza-Visconti He gave His new palace
on Banchi Vecchi (_v._ p. 67), the town of Nepi, the revenues of the
cathedral of Agria in Hungary, worth ten thousand ducats, and named him,
at the age of thirty-seven years, Vicechancellor of the Holy Roman
Church. To Cardinal Colonna He gave the Abbacy of Subjaco with all its
fortresses and rights of patronage, confirming the same to his house for
ever. To Cardinal Riarjo He gave the huge palace in Trastevere (now
Corsini) vacated by Cardinal Sforza-Visconti, benefices in Spain
producing four thousand ducats yearly revenue, and confirmed him in his
office of Cardinal-Chamberlain. To Cardinal Savelli He gave the
legations of Perugia and Civita Castellana, including twenty towns and a
revenue of three thousand ducats; and to other cardinals the remainder
of the preferments which He now vacated.
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