Chronicles of
The House of Borgia
[Illustration:
_From a Portrait in the Vatican Library._
_Alexander P. P. VI._
]
CHRONICLES OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA
BY
FREDERICK BARON CORVO
“=Go lytil quayer / submytte you euery where
Under correction of benyuolence
And where enuye is / loke ye come not there
For ony thynge / kepe your tretye thens
Eruye is full of frowarb reprehens
And how to hurte lyeth euer in a wayte
Kepe your quayer / that it be not ther bayte.=”
(WILLIAM CAXTON, in the _Boke of Curtesye_, A.D. 1477.)
LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1901
“GIANNOTTO IL DOMANDO QUELLO CHE DEL SANTO PADRE ET DE’CARDINALI ET DE
GLI ALTRI CORTIGIANI GLI PAREA.
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QUANTI SONO. ET DICOTO COSI CHE SE IO BEN SEPPI CONSIDERARE QUIVI
NIUNA SANTITA NIUNA DIVOTIONE NIUNO BUONO OPERA O EXEMPLO DI VITA O D’
ALTRO IN ALCUNO CHE CHERICO FOSSE VEDER MI PARVE MA LUSSERIA AVARITIA
ET GOLOSITA ET SIMILI COSE ET PIGGIORI (SE PIGGIOR ESSER POSSONO IN
ALCUNO) MI VI PARVE IN TANTA GRATIA DI TUTTI VEDERE CHE IO HO PIU
TOSTO QUELLA PER UNA FUCINA DI DIABOLICHE OPERATIONI CHE SI DIVINE. ET
PER QUELLO CHE IO ESTIMI CON OGNI SOLLECITUDINE ET CON OGNI INGEGNO ET
CON OGNI ARTE MI PARE CHE IL VOSTRO PASTORE ET PER CONSEQUENTE TUTTI
GLI ALTRI SI PROCACCINO DI RIDUCERE A NULLA ET DI CACCIARE DEL MONDO
LA CHRISTIANA RELIGIONE. LA DOVE ESSI FONDAMENTO ET SOSTEGNO ESSER
DOVREBBER DI QUELLA. ET PERCIO CHE IO VEGGIO NON QUELLO ADVENIRE CHE
ESSI PROCACCIANO MA CONTINUAMENTE LA VOSTRA RELIGIONE AUMENTARSI ET
PIU LUCIDA ET PIU CHIARA DIVENIRE MERITAMENTE MI PAR DISCERNER LO
SPIRITO SANTO ESSER D’ ESSA SI COME DI VERA ET DI SANTA PIU CHE D’
ALCUN’ ALTRA FONDAMENTO ET SOSTEGNO.”
(GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. _DECAMERON._
GIORNATA J. NOVELLA IJ.)
Preface
Great Houses win and lose undying fame in a century. They shoot, bud,
bloom, bear fruit;—from obscurity they rise to dominate their Age,
indelibly to write their names in History: and, after a hundred years,
giving place to others who in turn shall take the stage, they descend
into the crowd, and live on, insignificant, retired, unknown.
Once upon a time, Caesars were masters of the world; and the genius of
Divus Julius, of Divus Augustus, was worshipped everywhere on altars.
There are Cesarini at this day in Rome, _cosa grande ch’ il sole_,
masters of wide domains, but not of empires. Once upon time, Buonaparte
held Europe in its grip. Buonaparte at this day keeps exile in Muscovy
or Flanders. Once upon a time, the Sforza were sovereigns-regnant; and
of their daughters were made an empress and a queen. There are Sforza at
this day at Santafiora and at Rome; peers of princes only, not of kings.
Once upon a time, Borgia was supreme in Christendom. There are Borgia at
this day, peers of France; or patricians whose names are written in the
Golden Book of Rome.
In little more than a century, from 1455 to 1572, Borgia sprang to the
pedestal of fame; leaping at a bound, from little bishoprics and
cardinalates, to the terrible altitude of Peter’s Throne; producing, in
those few years, two Popes, and a Saint and General of Jesuits. It is
true that there died, in the nineteenth century, another Borgia of
renown,—the Lord Stefano Borgia, Cardinal-Presbyter of the Title of San
Clemente—a great and good man, admirable by Englishmen for a certain
gracious deed which is not yet written in English History; and who
preferred a second place to that giddy pre-eminence on which his kin
formerly had played their part.
The history of the House of Borgia is the history of the healing of the
Great Schism; of the Renascence of letters and the arts; of the
Invention of Printing; of the Muslim Invasion of Europe; of the
consolidation of that Pontifical Sovereignty which endured till 1870;
the history of the Discovery of a World; the history of the Discovery,
by man, of Man.
“To penetrate the abyss of any human personality is impossible. No man
truly sees his living neighbour’s, brother’s, wife’s,—nay, even his own,
soul.” (_John Addington Symonds._) Much more obscure must be his
friend’s; and darker still, his enemy’s;—and these alive. What, then,
can be known of personalities, who are but distant, perhaps
uninteresting, mere names?
Chronicles there are, and chroniclers; and no more reliance can be
placed in those, than in modern morning and evening newspapers. The same
defect is common to both,—the personal equation, the human nature of the
writer, historian, journalist.
Cardinal Bartolomeo Sacchi (detto Platina) was “a heathen, and a bad
one.” He had to stand his trial on a charge of worshipping false gods,
was acquitted for want of evidence, and departed this life in the Odour
of Sanctity. Modern discoveries, in the secret recesses of the
catacombs, have proved that he was used to carry on his nefarious
practices there, with a handful of other extravagant athenians of like
kidney. He wrote a History of the Popes, which fairly deserves to be
called veracious: but he had a personal grudge against the Lord Paul
P.P. II. Who had put him to trial for paganism and grieved him with the
torture called The Question; wherefore, he got even with His Holiness
when he wrote His life, and a more singular example of truth untruly
told would be hard to find. Platina died in the reign of the Lord Xystus
P.P. IV; and his History of the Popes was continued by Onofrio Panvinii,
who, according to Sir Paul Rycaut, gravely states that, in 1489, the
Lord Innocent P.P. VIII permitted mass to be said without wine, in
Norway; because, that country being cold and the distance far, the wine
either was frozen, or was turned to vinegar, before it could be brought
thither. Obviously, Platina and Panvinii require credible corroboration.
Messer Stefano Infessura lays himself open to suspicion, as to his bona
fides and as to his knowledge, by his remarks on the Lord Xystus P.P.
IV.
Monsignor Hans Burchard, whose original Diarium awaits discovery, is
careless, Teutonic, and petty.
The Orators of the Powers compile their state-dispatches from what they
have picked up when hanging about the doors of palaces, or from the
observations of bribed flunkeys.
Messer Paolo Giovio, preconised Bishop of Nocera by the Lord Clement
P.P. VII, Messer Francesco Guicciardini, and Messer Benedetto Varchi,
were Florentines, who wrote in the Florentine manner, of Rome and Roman
affairs, from an antipathetic point of view, and solely on the gossip
and tittle-tattle that filtered through to Florence after long years.
Yet they wrote in stately delicate language, “Dante’s desiderata,—that
illustrious cardinal courtly curial mother-tongue, proper to each
Italian state, special to none, whereby the local idioms of every city
are to be measured, weighed, compared.” Only—only—the student of their
work must know that, (in common with all professional manufacturers of
squibs, libels, and lampoons, in every age,) what they liked they
praised; and what they loathed they rhetorically and categorically
damned, compiling concise catalogues of all the worst crimes known to
casuistry, to lay at their foe’s door. Therefore, the student of history
must learn the personal sympathies and antipathies of these historians;
he must find their personal equation: and, when he has deducted that, he
may arrive at least in juxtaposition with truth. This method has been
attempted in the present work—in the absence of impersonal authorities.
_Mi sembra che la storia si sia servita della famiglia Borgia come di
tela sopra la quale abbia voluto dipingere le sfenatezze dei secoli XV,
XVI._ “It appears to me that history has made the House of Borgia to
serve as a canvas whereon to depict the unbridled licence of the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.” (_Ragguali, sulla vita di Marino
Sanuto, 207, note._) By some historians, the Borgia women are delineated
as “poison-bearing maenads,” or “veneficous bacchantes”; the Borgia men
as monsters utterly flagitious: both men and women of a wickedness
perfectly impossible to human nature, perfectly improbable even in
nature kakodaimoniacal. By other historians, chiefly, strange to say, of
the French School, and afflicted with the modern itch for
rehabilitation, the identical Borgia are displayed in the character of
stainless innocents who shine in the light of inconceivable virtue.
No man, save One, since Adam, has been wholly good. Not one has been
wholly bad. The truth about the Borgia, no doubt, lies between the two
extremes. They are accused of loose morals, and of having been addicted
to improper practices and amusements.
Well; what then? Does anybody want to judge them? Popes, and kings, and
lovers, and men of intellect, and men of war cannot be judged by the
narrow code, the stunted standard, of the journalist and the
lodging-house keeper, or the plumber and the haberdasher. So indecently
unjust a suggestion only could emanate from persons who expect to gain
in comparison.
Why should good hours of sunlight be wasted on the judgment seat, by
those who, presently, will have to take their turn in the dock? Why not
leave the affairs of Borgia to the Recording Angel?
All about the Borgia quite truly will be known, some day; and, in the
interim, more profitable entertainment may be gained by frankly and
openly studying that swift vivid violent age, when “the Pope was an
Italian Despot with sundry sacerdotal additions;” when “what Mill, in
his Essay on Liberty, desired,—what seems every day more unattainable in
modern life,—was enjoyed by the Italians; _there was no check to the
growth of personality, no grinding of men down to match the average_.”
“Amorist, agonist, man, that, incessantly toiling and striving,
“Snatches the glory of life only from love and from war—
that is the formula in which the Borgia best may find expression. For
they, also, were human beings, who were born, struggled through life,
and died.
* * * * *
In this Ideal Content of the House of Borgia, there is matter for a
score of specialists. The present writer lays no claim to any special
knowledge whatever; although his studies obviously have led him more in
one direction than in another. Curbed by his limitations, he makes no
pretensions to the discovery of new or striking facts: but he humbly
trusts that he has been enabled to throw new and natural light on myths
and legends, and to re-arrange causes and events in a humanly probable
sequence.
In dealing with circumstantial calumny, he has adopted an unworn system;
_e.g._, in the case of persons said to have been raised to the purple in
reward for criminal services. Here, he furnishes complete lists of the
persons raised to the purple; and, when the names of those accused of
crime do not appear therein, he takes the fact as direct and positive
refutation of the calumny.
Touching the matter of names and styles, he has made an attempt to
correct the slipshod and corrupt translations of the same, which, at
present, are the vogue. To allude to Personages in terms which are
appropriate enough for one’s terrier, or for one’s slave; to speak of
sovereigns as mere John, or of pontiffs as plain Paul; are breaches of
etiquette of unpardonable grossness. The present writer has tried, at
least, to accord to his characters the use of the names, and the
courtesy of the styles that they actually bore.
In his manner of writing, he has endeavoured to rush from mood to mood,
in consonance with the subject under consideration, with something of
the flippant breathless masterful versatility which Nature uses. For men
were very natural in the Borgian Era.
It is said that the style of a history should be grave and stately; and
so it should be, when History is written in epic form. But to write of
men and women,—human men and women,—on those inhuman lines, is nothing
but an unnatural crime; and, also, as ridiculously incongruous and
inconsistent, as it would be to sing the _Miserere mei Deus_ to the tune
of the _Marseillaise_. For human nature is not at all times grave and
stately; but has its dressing-gown-and-slipper periods,—being human
nature. The aim of this work is to display the Borgia alive and
picturesque and unconventional, as indeed they were; not monumentally to
freeze them into ideally heroic moulds, or to chisel them into
conventionally unrecognisable effigies.
The writer does not write with the simple object of “white-washing” the
House of Borgia; his present opinion being that all men are too vile for
words to tell.
Further, he does not write in the Roman Catholic interest; nor in the
Jesuit interest; nor in the interest of any creed, or corporation, or
even human being: but solely as one who has scratched together some
sherds of knowledge, which he perforce must sell, to live.
It should be unnecessary to say that no persuasion of, and no offence
to, any man, or any school of thought, is intended in these pages; and
that the writer, in the absence of desired advice, has written what he
has written under correction.
He returns thanks to the officers of the Oxford University Galleries, of
the Bodleian Library, and of the British Museum, for courteous and
valuable assistance.
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