Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Alfonso Petrucci, Cardinal and Conspirator: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts
The history of the Petrucci Conspiracy fills one of the saddest pages in the annals of the Roman Pontificate. It is described by Guicciardini in his thirteenth book, and in the biographies of Alfonso Petrucci, given by Palatins (fastz' Cardz'nalz'um) and by Eggs, in his Farpam Dada. The life of Leo X. Which they give respectively in their Gesta Pontzf Romanomm and the Pontzficz'um Doclum throws further light upon the melancholy narrative. The incidents of the conspiracy have been closely followed, the characters of Laodamia Petrucci and Violante Riario* being the only non - historic ones. They are designed to represent the spirit of the re generated Italy of the present as contrasted with the demoralized Italy of the past.
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