to mrs q and the family destroy the power of as a rival with the aid of the king of france louis xii he assistance to the latter who comes to and young now fearing for his life at the hands of his treacherous father in law deserts rome and and louis xii proceeds against falls and s wife as representative of the pope aged eighteen is sent to receive the homage of but the plot merely there comes a nice point in here on which comment is the basis it was one time assumed that alexander the father during all these various treated his daughter as his mistress her brother also bore the same relation to her father and son were rivals then for the affections and of the daughter sister to the affections of the son the father has the daughter her husband back to rome from all accounts he was very much in love with his wife who was beautiful but dangerous because of her charms and the manner in which she was by others in when he was twenty and twenty three he was back and the next year because of caesar s jealousy of his of his own wife caesar being perhaps denied his usual freedom was while going up the steps of the palace by his brother in law and that in the presence of his father in law alexander vi the pope of rome according to one account on sight of jumping out from behind a column sought refuge behind alexander the pope who spread out his purple robe to protect him through which drove his knife into the bosom of his brother in law the dear old father and father in law was severely shocked he was quite depressed in fact he shook his head the wound was not fatal however was removed to the house of a cardinal near by where he was attended by his wife and his sister in law wife of both of whom he apparently feared a little for they were compelled first to partake of all food presented in order to prove that it was not poisoned in this in this sick chamber doorway � suddenly and unexpectedly one day there appears the figure of the scene and present is not given is in his bed and this time dies is the crime a at forty not at all this is papa alexander s own this is a family affair and father is very fond of caesar so the matter is hushed up witness the interesting final chapters goes off october to fight the princes in once more among whom are and one of s ex husbands july alexander leaves the palace in rome to fight the one of the two powerful families of rome with the assistance of the other powerful family the in his absence his beloved is acting pope january first or is to son and heir to d whose famous villa near rome is still to be seen neither nor his father was anxious for this union but papa alexander pope of rome has set his heart on it by and threats he brings about a marriage � not being present � celebrated with great pomp at st peter s january arrives in the presence of her new husband who falls seriously in love with her her fate is now to settle down and no further befall on account of her except one a certain an italian noble appears on the scene and falls violently in love with her she is only twenty three or four even now d her new husband becomes violently jealous and result further peace until her death in in her thirty ninth year during which period she had four children by � three boys and one girl as for brother caesar he was unfortunately leading a more career on december when he was only twenty six as a general fighting the allied minor princes in he caused to be in his at and da two who with others had against him some time before at awed by his growing power they had been so foolish as to endeavor to him by for him from their and presenting it to him and allowing themselves to be to his house by of friendship result august father pope alexander vi charming society figure polished gentleman lover of the chase patron of the arts for whom and had worked breathes his last he and caesar had fallen desperately mrs q and the family sick at the same time of a fever when caesar sufficiently to attend to his affairs things are already in a bad way the are to seat a pope to the the spanish on whom he has relied do not prove friendly and he loses his control the funds which papa was wont to supply for his are no longer pope ii succeeding to the throne takes away from caesar the assigned to him by his father for the honor of recovering what our have in may having gone to on a safe conduct for the spanish governor of that city he is arrested and sent to spain where he is thrown into prison at the end of two years he to escape and to the court of his brother in law the king of who him to aid in the castle of a subject here march while elsewhere is peacefully with her he is killed i have given but a feeble outline of this charming mixed in with it are constant or of wealthy and the of their estates whenever cash for the of caesar s wars or the protection of properties are needed the and child loving old pope was exceedingly about these little matters of human life when he died there was a fight over his coffin between priests of different and belonging to caesar the coffin being too short his body was down in 