One enemy at the time.
Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all.
Man is not born to be happy.
Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable.
Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare,
In the chaos of war, I would have looked simply small, and therefore neither a promise nor a threat.
Borgia bastard could never be the social equal of a legitimate Medici.
And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.
Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.
Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world.
God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.
People do not smile when they are in hell,
You would be surprised by the strength of a desperate man.
Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and over, moving so fast that sometimes you cannot even make out the spokes. It...
You draw(the painter)
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, the...
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
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