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194. Pope Leo X - From the Vault · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: Hello delicious friends, Hello delicious friends, and welcome to Who
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Speaker 1: Did What Now? The history podcast that is not your
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Speaker 1: history class with me your host Katie Charlewood, History Harlotte
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Speaker 1: and reader of books. Well, well, well I had a
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Speaker 1: fun weekend, and by fun, i'man tiring. It was my
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Speaker 1: daughter's tenth birthday, so I took her and my son
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Speaker 1: down to Dublin for the day, well overnight, and we
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Speaker 1: stayed in that's like really cool hotel and everything was
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Speaker 1: like super fun. We went to Dublin EA, which is
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Speaker 1: like the whole Viking thing in Dublin, and then we
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Speaker 1: went to and we did a VR sandbox thing. We
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Speaker 1: did lots of stuff and everyone's go melt. Everything's fun
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Speaker 1: and we had great plans to get up early and
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Speaker 1: go to the zoo the next morning. However, fate was
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Speaker 1: not on our side because we had to be evacuated
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Speaker 1: from our hotel at one o'clock in the morning due
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Speaker 1: to a small fire. So whatever happened and whatever room,
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Speaker 1: whatever floor, I don't know right, all I know is
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Speaker 1: one o'clock in the morning, fire alarm's going off and
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Speaker 1: we're getting out of that room and like we're all
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Speaker 1: in pajamas, and because it's the summer, they're all short
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Speaker 1: pajamas and like my son also, he's like eleven, he
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Speaker 1: runs hot, so he sleeps with just shorts on. And
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Speaker 1: so like I wake up, I just start grabbing the
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Speaker 1: jackets off of the like the the coat hangers, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, shoes on. And he sets a boat up
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Speaker 1: and he's like, what's going on? And I'm like, it's okay,
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Speaker 1: it's just a fire alarm. I need you to get
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Speaker 1: your jacket on. So I give him his jacket. I
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Speaker 1: tell him to put your shoes on, and I try
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Speaker 1: to wake up his sister. Now, this girl, this girl
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Speaker 1: slept through fire alarms. This girl could sleep through a jackhammer.
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Speaker 1: This girl could sleep through an earthquake, and yet here
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Speaker 1: we are. I am trying to wake her up. I'm
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Speaker 1: shaking her, he's shaking her. She's not budgeting, and I'm like, crap,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to carry this kid down the stairs.
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Speaker 1: Like she's playing sports. So she's all muscle as well.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, dear, let's hope the gem has
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Speaker 1: been kicking off like never miss leg day. So I
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Speaker 1: was like, great, put on my ceial killer rain jacket,
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Speaker 1: grab my phone, grab my room key in the pockets,
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Speaker 1: go grab my child, and so why scoop her up?
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Speaker 1: And that's when she wakes up because she's like what
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Speaker 1: is going on? And then she hears the fire alarm.
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Speaker 1: She's freaking out, and I'm like, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: I was like, fire alarm, don't worry about it. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna go downstairs. Here, put this jacket on. Here, let
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Speaker 1: me get your shoes on. So I get her shoes on.
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Speaker 1: I'm tying her legs.
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Speaker 2: Is.
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Speaker 1: At this point, my son has opened the door and
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Speaker 1: he's walking out of it, so I have her. She's
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Speaker 1: walking beside me. I literally grab at teddy, throw it
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Speaker 1: into her, IMS like hold this because they both got
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Speaker 1: a teddy. Ah, we're going down the stairs. Well, we
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Speaker 1: go out the room and he's ahead, and then I
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Speaker 1: can't see him in the hallway and the man who's
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Speaker 1: holding me the fire escape door open. It's like I
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Speaker 1: stand there, I'm holding her, and I shout his name,
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Speaker 1: and then this guy goes he describes my son, and
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Speaker 1: I go yes, and he goes he's already going down
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Speaker 1: the stairs, and I go great. So we get out
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Speaker 1: onto the stairwell. When I'm on the stairwell, I can
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Speaker 1: physically see him. He is like he is leading the way,
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Speaker 1: he's showing people out. His hands are over his ears though,
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Speaker 1: because he just cannot deal with the noise, and he
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Speaker 1: is heading to the assembly point out in the car park.
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Speaker 1: So off we go. We get there, it's cold, and
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Speaker 1: then it gets to the point where they've gone from
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Speaker 1: being half asleep to being full of adrenaline. And then
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Speaker 1: like it's like it's just it's just there's so many
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Speaker 1: of us, but like it's so funny because there was
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Speaker 1: so many people who were not only fully dressed but
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Speaker 1: had their cases with them. And I'm like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: what's that important to you unless that case is full
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Speaker 1: of medication or like you know, something irreplaceable, Like you
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Speaker 1: don't if there's a fire alarm, you get out. Like
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Speaker 1: nobody was really panicking so much on my floor, Like
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Speaker 1: we went down three flights, but I was like, no,
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Speaker 1: there's a fire alarm. We're getting out of the building.
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Speaker 1: And if nothing else in my brain, I'm like I
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Speaker 1: need them to know that if they hear the alarm,
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Speaker 1: they need to leave the building, you know, because the
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Speaker 1: last thing I want is for them to hear an
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Speaker 1: alarm and just be like what, like, I'll just stay
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Speaker 1: It'll be fine, because it might not be at that point.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, we're outside, we're out there, my friends start
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Speaker 1: sending pictures of their of their dogs and stuff, you know,
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Speaker 1: my friend to her like she was sending me with
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Speaker 1: dog pictures and the kids love talks. So it was
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Speaker 1: really really great distracting then, but like I just love
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Speaker 1: the fact they a dreamly kicked in and she's like
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Speaker 1: I'm in bloody shorts and she's like it's cold. She
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Speaker 1: was so mad at it. But yeah, then she was like,
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Speaker 1: as we get back to the room after the firemen
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Speaker 1: come and after everything comes down and we're told to
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Speaker 1: go back to the room, like apparently there was like
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Speaker 1: a small fire somebody was smoking in a room and
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Speaker 1: like nothing, it was more like a little trash can
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Speaker 1: of bit kind of went up. But it was all fine.
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Speaker 1: It was all sort of no worries. But anyway, they
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Speaker 1: grew up, we're back in. Everything's fine, and like she's complaining, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sleep now. I'm just like too much
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Speaker 1: of this. And I was like, all right, give her
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Speaker 1: a cuddle zoonked out, she goes, but yeah.
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Speaker 3: The next morning she's like, I just don't think. I
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Speaker 3: don't think I'm up to the zoo today. And I
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Speaker 3: was like, okay, okay. So we ended up doing an
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Speaker 3: escape room instead. We did a Sherlock Holmes escape.
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Speaker 1: Room and we beat it by ten minutes. And it's
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Speaker 1: actually really funny because we were doing the escape room
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Speaker 1: and I was still reading the first clue because they'd
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Speaker 1: found it and they'd read it and they handed it
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Speaker 1: to me and as I'm reading it, They've solved it.
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Speaker 1: I was like what And I'm like, these are my children,
6:20
Speaker 1: but anywhare I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Katie,
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Speaker 1: it's Pride month. Cut your jibber jabber in fact me,
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Speaker 1: in fact you. I will. But first we've got to
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Speaker 1: get our source on the Black Prince of Florence by
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Speaker 1: Catherine Fletcher. Cardinal Benadelia Sally and Church Patronage in sixteenth
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Speaker 1: century Italy by Helen Hyde. Church in Politics in Renaissance Italy,
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Speaker 1: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Sorerne by Kate Lowe.
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Speaker 1: The Certificate of Leo the Tenth by William Roscoe under
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Speaker 1: the Knife. A History of Surgery in twenty eight Remarkable
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Speaker 1: Operations by Arnold van delar Sex and Spirituality in fifteen hundred,
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Speaker 1: to Rome by Joe Burke. History of the Popes from
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Speaker 1: the Close of the Middle Ages, drawn from the secret
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Speaker 1: archives of the Vatican and other original sources by Ludwig
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Speaker 1: von Pastor. The Medici Popes by Herbert M. Vaughan. And
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Speaker 1: of course we have our favorites history dot com and
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Speaker 1: biography dot com. I use it incomfortably good. Then let's begin.
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Speaker 1: So Pope Leo the Tenth did not start his life
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Speaker 1: as Leo the tenth obviously, or his pope. That would
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Speaker 1: be weird. He came into the world as Giovanni de
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Speaker 1: Lorenzo de Medici, yes added the accent for dramatic effect,
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Speaker 1: apologies to any Italian listeners. And he was born on
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Speaker 1: the eleventh of December in fourteen seventy five in Florence, Italy.
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Speaker 1: He was the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, head
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Speaker 1: of the Florentine Republic and Claris Rossini. So he was
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Speaker 1: the second son of Lorenzo de Medici. And being the
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Speaker 1: second son, there's kind of rules. So the first son
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Speaker 1: He's going to inherit everything. He is your main sort
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Speaker 1: of link in the chain. Here is where your lineage,
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Speaker 1: your heritage, your money, that's all going to go down.
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Speaker 1: Him has said, that's just how things were in the past.
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Speaker 1: Oh so I'm just saying this is a random second son,
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Speaker 1: I mean second son of a prominent figure, but still
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Speaker 1: second son from the fourteen hundreds. And we have a birthday.
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Speaker 1: Do you know how hard it is to find a
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Speaker 1: medieval women's birthday. I've just been out there. It's absolutely shocking.
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Speaker 1: But we have Giovanni here. So he is the second
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Speaker 1: son and the first son they usually go and you know,
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Speaker 1: run the family business or whatever. The second son usually
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Speaker 1: goes into the church because that would be an ecumenical matter.
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Speaker 1: The second son usually goes into the clergy because that's
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Speaker 1: another place of power, especially in Italy, because you know,
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Speaker 1: Italy as a general rule, very Catholic, like quite a
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Speaker 1: lot of well for quite a lot of Europe, especially
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Speaker 1: incredibly Catholic for most of this definitely Christian, but usually Catholic.
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Speaker 1: So just as a sidebar, when people discuss medieval Europe,
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Speaker 1: they do not mean like Europe as a whole, especially
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Speaker 1: as a geographical concept, because we see geography as this
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Speaker 1: is the line drawn in the sand, this is this area,
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Speaker 1: this is that area, and you know, it was less
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Speaker 1: of a physical geographic location and it was more related
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Speaker 1: to political ecclesiastical affiliations. Effectively, medieval Europe is Christian Europe.
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Speaker 1: That's what they mean. So if anybody discusses anything out
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Speaker 1: with that, that's not what they're talking about. That's why
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Speaker 1: generalizations happen and you go, oh, but what about this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's because they're not counting it. Because history is written
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Speaker 1: by monks and stuff, and that's basically what it all
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Speaker 1: comes down to. The monks were the ones writing the notes,
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Speaker 1: so back to them being Christian. So Italy is so
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Speaker 1: Christian that the King of Italy became the head of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Roman Empire. No one as the Holy Roman
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Speaker 1: Emperor like that. Too much power the Church wielded. They
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Speaker 1: had like an empire, and a lot of things couldn't
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Speaker 1: happen sort of within medieval Europe without the pope, say so,
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Speaker 1: without that blessing with that power. So there would be
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Speaker 1: political power, which one some would have, and then another
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Speaker 1: form of political power through the church, so one would
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Speaker 1: go through official political channels and one would go through
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Speaker 1: the religious channels, and it was just a way of
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Speaker 1: ensuring that sort of power. I don't have a better
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Speaker 1: way to put it, Like, it's just covering all your bases,
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Speaker 1: you know, making sure you've every corner covered, you know,
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Speaker 1: so if you need something through, you have these alliances
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Speaker 1: and affiliations and all of these connections. So it was
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Speaker 1: deemed very early on that the second son, Medici number two,
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Speaker 1: was going to have a career in the church. And
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Speaker 1: when he's seven, he ends up getting benefices, which is
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Speaker 1: basically rewards for being you know, good and holy and
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Speaker 1: wanting to do churchy things. And he gets these and
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Speaker 1: his dad's like, just careful now, you don't want to
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Speaker 1: get into like luxury and vices and all this kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff because you want to be like good, like
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Speaker 1: a good dude. Ah ha. This may shock you, but
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Speaker 1: that is not how this story is going to go.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to go at all. So his dad, Lorenzo,
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Speaker 1: being incredibly important, starts you know, lobbying on his behalf
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Speaker 1: to Pope Innocent the Eighth to name him the Cardinal
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Speaker 1: of Santa Maria Dominica. Sorry for the accent, I can't
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Speaker 1: help myself. I should probably add there's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: lot of nepotism in this story. Like you think there's nepotism,
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Speaker 1: you think you've seen an epo baby. No no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no no. Yr is not a level of nepotism
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Speaker 1: than sort of Renaissance Italy. Like the amount of favors
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Speaker 1: and people getting jobs just because you know they're related
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Speaker 1: to a pope is absolutely ridiculous. Like this has gotten
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Speaker 1: to a point where the pope has access to all
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Speaker 1: this money and all this power, and they're just living
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Speaker 1: it up like half the time. Like I understand the
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Speaker 1: concept of wanting to help your friend or relative or whatever,
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Speaker 1: but there comes a point where it's not helpful and
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Speaker 1: it's just incredibly self serving. But yeah, he ends up
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Speaker 1: being named cardinal at age thirteen, which I feel is
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Speaker 1: just too young to be a cardinal. Like he doesn't
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Speaker 1: become a priest, and I think at this point he's
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Speaker 1: like he should. You should be a priest first and
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Speaker 1: then work your way up to cardinal, Like isn't that
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Speaker 1: how it's supposed to go. You're supposed to go up
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Speaker 1: the steps, up the ladders, you learn your bit. But no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no not Giovanni ya no no no, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to do that, bloody ridiculous. So he's not allowed
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Speaker 1: to wear like the insignia or do stuff in the
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Speaker 1: you know, in the college until he's sixteen. Like they're
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Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, you can't be doing that, which
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Speaker 1: is shocking. So he can be a cardinal as long
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Speaker 1: as he doesn't like dress like a cardinal, like you
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Speaker 1: can be in our group, but you can't wear the uniform.
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Speaker 1: But weird, but we I mean he has, you know,
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Speaker 1: a child at this point, so I get it. So
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Speaker 1: seeing as he can't be like proper for long cardinal,
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Speaker 1: he ends up getting an education at Lorenzo's court, and
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Speaker 1: it is a humanist education, the same one Henry the eighth,
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Speaker 1: and you know, very well rounded education actually, so you're
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Speaker 1: learning sort of arithmetic and languages and music and dance
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Speaker 1: and philosophy like all of this stuff. A love that
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Speaker 1: through danceing there everybody had to dance the Middle Ages,
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Speaker 1: like you don't have a lot of hobbys, you don't
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Speaker 1: have a lot of opportunities, like you're gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to work at a party, you know. But he gets
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Speaker 1: a humanist education, and he has I mean, he's being
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Speaker 1: taught by all these amazing thinkers like Marcadio Paccini, Bernardo Babienna,
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Speaker 1: Like he is doing well, and he is studying. On
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Speaker 1: top of all this, he's studying theology and canon law,
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Speaker 1: so he's you know, he's learning, he's working his way up. Now,
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Speaker 1: when he's sixteen, he is formally admitted into the Sacred
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Speaker 1: College of Cardinals and is allowed to live in Rome.
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Speaker 1: Now a month after he gets into the College of Cardinals,
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Speaker 1: his father dies, So Lorenzo is just dead. He's gone
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Speaker 1: to put So Lorenzo passes away and he has to
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Speaker 1: return to Florence to go deal with the funeral and
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Speaker 1: you know, all of those important things. So he goes
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Speaker 1: and does that, and he's dealing with all that. He's grieving,
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Speaker 1: I would assume God, I hope, so he could be
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Speaker 1: bad if he wasn't. So he's doing all that. But
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Speaker 1: then he has to return to Rome because Pope Innocent
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Speaker 1: has died and so a new pope needs to get elected.
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Speaker 1: So he returned to the conclave and he opposes the
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Speaker 1: election of everyone's favorite, horrible pope, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who
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Speaker 1: ends up being elected as Pope Alexander the sixth. Because
17:34
Speaker 1: none of these popes want new names, they'll have to
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Speaker 1: be the fifth, the sex of the twelve, the eight. Like,
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Speaker 1: let's have a weird pope. Let's have a pope with
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Speaker 1: a weird name like Chad. Could you imagine a Pope Chad?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Come on, Like that'd be very funny, Pope Chad. Pop
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the names of about
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Speaker 1: the popes. I feel like some silly would be very
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Speaker 1: good and very fun Pope tim he so he opposes
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Speaker 1: were Drugo Borgia and that doesn't work out, so he
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Speaker 1: ends up heading back to stay with his brother Piero
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Speaker 1: in Florence. So a lot of stuff is going on
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Speaker 1: at this point. I don't know if you remember now,
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Speaker 1: A lot of this would have been covered in Arlacretzia
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Speaker 1: Borgia episode and our Catarnus Forza episodes about all of
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Speaker 1: the tumultuous, crazy shit that was happening in in Italy
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Speaker 1: at this time. So first we have Girolamo Savonorala. I
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Speaker 1: have definitely mispronounced that name. So we have him, and
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Speaker 1: he is this puritan friar so he's a monk, right,
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Speaker 1: think of you know, the high Sparrow from Game of Thrones.
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Speaker 1: He's puritan, he's a fanatic. He is a fanatical monk, tyrannical.
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Speaker 1: Some might even say like he is very into austerity measures,
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Speaker 1: like the Tory government, and he's all about, you know,
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Speaker 1: poverty is good, in pain is good and frivolity is bad.
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Speaker 1: And he's just he's just making enemies left, right and center.
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Speaker 2: Like he's.
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Speaker 1: One of the reasons that the Medici's get kicked out
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Speaker 1: of Florence. So he's causing all this shit. And then
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Speaker 1: of course we have King Charles the eighth of France,
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Speaker 1: who is like invading and just causing shit again in
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Speaker 1: the previous episodes, and it gets to the point where
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Speaker 1: there's an uprising in Florence and like they're super into
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Speaker 1: this monk dude, and they're just sick of all the
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Speaker 1: shit that's happening, and they effectively kick the Medici's out
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Speaker 1: of Florence. So this is Piero manages to go to
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Speaker 1: Venice and Albino and Giovanni. He ends up in the
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Speaker 1: Midlands and France and I'm not going to say Germany
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Speaker 1: because it's like German states, so he could have ended
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Speaker 1: up in Prussia, for example. I'm not sure where exactly
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Speaker 1: in Germany he was, but he was going around. He was,
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Speaker 1: he was getting about. When he's eighteen, he manages to
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Speaker 1: come back to Rome and he's still very young, and
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Speaker 1: he is received very well by the current Pope Borgia
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Speaker 1: or you know, Alexander the sixth, and so he lives
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Speaker 1: in Rome and he's spending time getting to know like
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Speaker 1: literature and art, and he's reading stuff. He's getting involved
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Speaker 1: in the art scene, menace the berets and the clicking
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Speaker 1: the fingers instead of clapping. So the Medici's getting kicked out.
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Speaker 1: Part of it was a little bit of a power
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Speaker 1: play from, you know, the pope, because the Borges kind
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Speaker 1: of had some issues with them, you know, here and there,
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Speaker 1: and so off they went. But then Alexander the sex
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Speaker 1: dies and in fifteen oh three, Pope Julius the Second
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Speaker 1: ascends to the pontificate, and you know, Giovanni pretty happy.
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Speaker 1: Cardinal Giovanni there is like, that's cool. Pope Julius is cool.
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Speaker 1: We're cool with Pope Julius. Everything is fine. The very
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Speaker 1: same year, something good slash bad, depending on your perspective.
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Speaker 1: Happens to Giovanni because his brother Piero dies, so you know,
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Speaker 1: obviously sad that his brother is no longer with him,
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Speaker 1: but also with him out the way, Giovanni is now
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Speaker 1: the head of the Medici family. And Giovanni he is
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Speaker 1: getting in good with the Pope because when he is
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Speaker 1: twenty nine, that's right, twenty nine years old, hasn't even
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Speaker 1: hit the Big three oh yet, hasn't even had a
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Speaker 1: chance to have a quasi life crisis. No, barely a
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Speaker 1: gray hair on any of those balls. Yeah, prop Backe
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Speaker 1: Poles Again, you didn't think I was going to do it,
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Speaker 1: but I did. But yeah, he's twenty nine and he
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Speaker 1: gets appointed the papal legate of Bologna and Romagna. Basically
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Speaker 1: he's the representative of the Pope in these places. So
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Speaker 1: in Bologna and Romagna, he is the Pope stood. He
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Speaker 1: is the person you talk to if you want to
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Speaker 1: get a message to the Pope or the Pope wants
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Speaker 1: to get the message to you. So he's you know,
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Speaker 1: he's the mode man, he's Julie the guard dog. So
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Speaker 1: Florence at this point is a republic and it's aligned
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Speaker 1: with the French, so it's sided with them. The Medicis
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Speaker 1: have been kicked out, and Pope Julius has sent Giovanni
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Speaker 1: to basically deal with them, so he's he's been sent
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Speaker 1: with a papal army to go deal with this, but
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Speaker 1: unfortunately things don't go well, so the French end up
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Speaker 1: winning this battle and they capture Giovanni with their retreating forces.
23:37
Speaker 1: So even though they've won, they have suffered such a
23:41
Speaker 1: massive loss that they're just stuck. They have no choice
23:46
Speaker 1: but to just leg it back and run away, and
23:49
Speaker 1: they take Giovanni with them. He manages to escape head
23:53
Speaker 1: back to Florence and re establishes the Medicis as like
23:58
Speaker 1: the main guys in Florence like the head Honchos, although
24:03
Speaker 1: his younger brother ends up taking proper control at that point,
24:08
Speaker 1: but anyway, they become the most important family in Florence
24:14
Speaker 1: and the French get driven out of Italy. Now, Pope
24:23
Speaker 1: Julius he is not well. His time on this mortal
24:29
Speaker 1: coil is coming to an end, and so everyone is
24:36
Speaker 1: expected to return to Rome. So then Pope Julius dies
24:42
Speaker 1: right and they need to elect a new pope. There
24:48
Speaker 1: are considerably less cardinals there at the papal conclave in
24:53
Speaker 1: fifteen thirteen because you know, the French cardinals are not
24:57
Speaker 1: there because of you know, the invade and Getaly thing
25:01
Speaker 1: be whether Medici's and the spores us and the yeah yeah,
25:04
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, just wild, absolutely wild. And so all the
25:10
Speaker 1: votes go in and who gets carried in to the
25:16
Speaker 1: building but Giovanni, because he is suffering from terrible anal
25:23
Speaker 1: fictiers and festuls like it gets to the point where
25:29
Speaker 1: people are commenting on how bad it smells.
25:34
Speaker 2: Now.
25:35
Speaker 1: It is also commented that his particular lifestyle led to this. Basically,
25:41
Speaker 1: he was doing a lot of butt stuff, anal sex,
25:46
Speaker 1: you know, sort of me all the other terminology for it,
25:50
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. Butt stuff just sounds funny
25:52
Speaker 1: to me. So I'm gonna stick with the butt stuff,
25:57
Speaker 1: even though it feels really childish. Bit in a lau
26:01
Speaker 1: opian and I'm on a load of drugs tracks It's okay.
26:06
Speaker 1: They were prescribed by a doctor. Yes, And at the
26:12
Speaker 1: age of thirty seven, thirty seven, Giovanni is elected pope. Now.
26:22
Speaker 1: The story is that some of them felt sorry for him,
26:25
Speaker 1: and they didn't think he was going to be round
26:27
Speaker 1: much longer. Because you know, because of all of his
26:30
Speaker 1: anal issues. But yeah, he gets elected and he decides
26:36
Speaker 1: on the name Leo. So he is Pope Leo the tenth.
26:41
Speaker 1: And now he is in charge of the church and
26:45
Speaker 1: his younger brother is in charge of the Medici family.
26:50
Speaker 1: So over the next couple of days, so this is
26:56
Speaker 1: how quick it was. On the fifteenth of March, he's
26:59
Speaker 1: ordained as a pre On the seventeenth of March Saint
27:03
Speaker 1: Patrick's day, he was ordained as the Bishop of Rome.
27:07
Speaker 1: And on the nineteenth of March he was officially named pope. Now,
27:14
Speaker 1: no no events. That's four days. Over the course of
27:17
Speaker 1: four days he went through all of the ecumenical stuff,
27:24
Speaker 1: all of the all of all of the clergy, like
27:29
Speaker 1: leveling up, like he leveled up through the clergy with
27:35
Speaker 1: four days. Four days he did it, which is worrying.
27:40
Speaker 1: And so he is known as the young Pope obviously
27:43
Speaker 1: because he's very young. Have you seen popes, they're generally
27:48
Speaker 1: quite wrinkly, like their their prunes and human form. You
27:52
Speaker 1: know that they're getting on a bit. And this may
27:55
Speaker 1: shock you, but he is the last non priest to
27:59
Speaker 1: ever be a pope, and I think for good reason.
28:04
Speaker 1: Now Leo is in charge and he starts spending money. Now,
28:09
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but the Vatican
28:11
Speaker 1: is hella rich, like they are rolling in it. They
28:15
Speaker 1: have so much money. And you know, people would say
28:20
Speaker 1: to Leo, listen, have you considered being a bit more pious?
28:26
Speaker 1: I mean he was praying, he would fast before Mass,
28:29
Speaker 1: and he would do like all of the things one
28:32
Speaker 1: would expect someone deeply religious to do, so he would
28:36
Speaker 1: go through all of that. But then also, it's been
28:40
Speaker 1: a fuck ton of money. So he he spent so
28:45
Speaker 1: much money, like so much money, to the point that
28:49
Speaker 1: he spent over the next two years all of the money,
28:54
Speaker 1: like all of all of the paper money. And they're like,
28:57
Speaker 1: can you maybe not do that? And he said, ah,
28:59
Speaker 1: fuck for game of Socials, I'm gonna just renovate this pitch.
29:05
Speaker 1: Because what he does is he makes a pornographic bathroom.
29:08
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard about the Pope's pornographic bathroom.
29:12
Speaker 1: This is the one. This is the secret Vatican bathroom
29:17
Speaker 1: full of sort of artwork frescoes. Perhaps that is the
29:24
Speaker 1: frescos it's artwork away and it's it's it's it's basically
29:29
Speaker 1: porn it's pornographic imagery. It's just a big, dirty bathroom.
29:32
Speaker 1: It's very funny. So you've got that.
29:34
Speaker 2: And he is.
29:37
Speaker 1: Enlarging the Vatican Palace and he's ordering like churches and
29:42
Speaker 1: chapels to be built around Rome. But he's not just
29:46
Speaker 1: spending on himself, like he's also forking a lot of
29:50
Speaker 1: money out to charity. So this is where I say, like,
29:52
Speaker 1: you can be like two things at once, Like you
29:54
Speaker 1: can do good things and you can do awful things.
29:57
Speaker 1: This is why, like bad people can do good things
29:59
Speaker 1: and people can do bad things, and some people are
30:02
Speaker 1: absolute cunts like this Fela, because what he does is
30:06
Speaker 1: he decides that not only is he going to spend
30:08
Speaker 1: all the Vaticans of money, he doesn't give a shit,
30:14
Speaker 1: and he has to find ways to make more money.
30:18
Speaker 1: And he does this by creating new offices and offering
30:26
Speaker 1: these roles to the highest bidder, so you could get
30:29
Speaker 1: a job if you were rich effectively instead of being
30:32
Speaker 1: capable or good. And so he started selling papal indulgences.
30:39
Speaker 1: He's giving beneficials out. He is just going to town.
30:44
Speaker 1: And it gets to the point that he is just
30:48
Speaker 1: spending so much money, and he's not his outgoings are
30:52
Speaker 1: more than his incomings effectively. And he then has to
30:57
Speaker 1: deal with King Francis the First, because King Francis the
31:02
Speaker 1: First of France, France, Francis of France, he has a
31:09
Speaker 1: little bit power hungry because he wants to regain control
31:13
Speaker 1: of Milan in Naples, and he marches to Italy to
31:17
Speaker 1: head an army to just try and take over. And
31:23
Speaker 1: you've got the French, the French, the French. I can't
31:29
Speaker 1: be able to do this the French. You've got the
31:30
Speaker 1: French army and you've got the Swiss army and they're
31:33
Speaker 1: fighting in Mariniano, and the French take control of Milan,
31:39
Speaker 1: and it's it's just it's not great. And also Italy's
31:47
Speaker 1: not too cool with that. The Pope's not too cool
31:49
Speaker 1: with that. And in the meantime, he is trying to
31:56
Speaker 1: do with a bunch of stuff because he was hoping
31:58
Speaker 1: to put his brother in charge of a load of stuff.
32:02
Speaker 1: They wanted to make him a powerhouse and to be
32:06
Speaker 1: a Roman patrician, so he was hoping to invest all
32:14
Speaker 1: of his sort of political plans in his brother. He
32:18
Speaker 1: had made him a Roman patrician and he was hoping
32:21
Speaker 1: to really really get the ball rolling there and really
32:24
Speaker 1: gain power through Giuliano. Effectively, his plan was to put
32:30
Speaker 1: in charge of the kingdom in central Italy, so he
32:34
Speaker 1: was hoping to have him in charge of Ferrara and
32:36
Speaker 1: Urbuno and Beacenza and Parma, and he was just really
32:43
Speaker 1: hoping to get all this going. But then Juliana dies
32:48
Speaker 1: or sorry, Giuliano dies, and his son, Leo's nephew Lorenzo
32:55
Speaker 1: I know, I know another name. The kids repeated, he
32:58
Speaker 1: is now, he's now the big boss. He's now where
33:01
Speaker 1: all those all those plans are going. He is putt
33:05
Speaker 1: Mel's eggs in one basket, so he's got plans for him.
33:09
Speaker 1: So he deals with him, and then he takes Apolito,
33:12
Speaker 1: who is his nephew, because he is but he's illegitimate,
33:17
Speaker 1: so he raises him because that's that's always good to
33:20
Speaker 1: have on hand. Because here's the thing, he's the pope.
33:22
Speaker 1: He can declare him legitimate anytime he wants, so he
33:25
Speaker 1: has power here, so he's dealing with that. And then
33:32
Speaker 1: the following year, when he's thirty eight, he ends up
33:36
Speaker 1: having a meeting with Francis, of course, and he ends
33:41
Speaker 1: up at the Concordat of Bologna, and it's basically a
33:45
Speaker 1: treaty with Franz where Francis the First gets the right
33:49
Speaker 1: to appoint all of the churchmen in France, which sounds
33:54
Speaker 1: super fun. So we're in fifteen seventeen, which is he
34:00
Speaker 1: very very busy here for Leo. Oh my god, I
34:04
Speaker 1: forgot the elephant. Okay, So when Leo gets elected to
34:09
Speaker 1: you know, being pope, he is gifted a white elephant
34:15
Speaker 1: by the King of Portugal because he's trying to stay
34:17
Speaker 1: on his good side obviously, and it's a big way
34:19
Speaker 1: elephant called Annon, but the Pope calls him Hanno, right,
34:23
Speaker 1: and he loves this elephant more than fucking life itself.
34:28
Speaker 1: Like this elephant gets treated the best it has, can
34:34
Speaker 1: do tricks, it lives in a gold room that's just
34:37
Speaker 1: having a great time. Hannah is treated so fucking well,
34:41
Speaker 1: and the Pope fucking loves this elephant like I don't
34:45
Speaker 1: know what else to tell you, Like he is the
34:47
Speaker 1: way people obsess over their dogs. That's the way Leo
34:52
Speaker 1: treats this elephant like he loves it. He has parties
34:57
Speaker 1: with it. I cannot know you how much weird elephant
35:02
Speaker 1: related history, I know, but I know far too much
35:06
Speaker 1: elephant related history, far too much. But anyway, he has it,
35:13
Speaker 1: and he has it for four years. So this is
35:17
Speaker 1: the year we still have it. Currently, fifteen seventeen, we
35:20
Speaker 1: still have Hano the elephant, still very much living his
35:24
Speaker 1: best life. Now the elephant is not the only thing
35:29
Speaker 1: he loves. He also spends a lot of special time
35:34
Speaker 1: with certain cardinals, certain bishops, certain friends, best friends, roommates.
35:44
Speaker 1: Wink wink, not nudge. But we'll get back to that
35:47
Speaker 1: in a moment. So what happens is Europe, Christian Europe
35:52
Speaker 1: ends up banding together because they're so afraid of the Turks.
35:56
Speaker 1: So they are terrified they are going to be overrun
36:02
Speaker 1: by the Turks. Is you know, as if they haven't
36:06
Speaker 1: just been like invading all of these other countries and
36:09
Speaker 1: trying to enforce you know, Catholic dogma upon them, like
36:14
Speaker 1: as if that's not a thing, when that was very much,
36:18
Speaker 1: you know, a millennia of things. You know, it's just
36:25
Speaker 1: it's wild. So there is this like peace between like
36:31
Speaker 1: France and Spain and the Habsburg monarchy and Venice and
36:35
Speaker 1: because they were like want to fight against you know,
36:38
Speaker 1: the Turks because again they're worried about someone doing to
36:43
Speaker 1: them what they did to other people. Oh no, it
36:47
Speaker 1: isn't the consequences of your own actions, wisha wisha. So yeah,
36:54
Speaker 1: they're doing that. But and then there's a little bit
36:57
Speaker 1: of peace for well. But then of course you have
37:00
Speaker 1: Henry the eighth, who's like consistently in a deck measuring
37:04
Speaker 1: contest with the King of France Kevin. Francis are just
37:08
Speaker 1: like wasting money trying to screw each other over. So
37:16
Speaker 1: Leo here manages to get one hundred and fifty thousand
37:19
Speaker 1: ducats in order to like help Henry the eighth in
37:29
Speaker 1: order to enter the Imperial League of Spain and England
37:32
Speaker 1: against France, like they're just trying to fuck it over.
37:36
Speaker 1: And this warlands from like February to September that year.
37:45
Speaker 1: But it brings uh, it does help. It brings up Lorenzo.
37:50
Speaker 1: He manages to get up and as well does well
37:54
Speaker 1: for himself. Although there is like a bunch of stuff
37:59
Speaker 1: messed over, and there was supposed to be a crusade
38:02
Speaker 1: and then obviously the cruseqe can happen, and this whole
38:06
Speaker 1: war caused him eight hundred thousand ducats in total eight
38:11
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. I don't even know how much that isn't
38:13
Speaker 1: today's money. A fucked on, That's what I know. But
38:19
Speaker 1: at the end, Lorenzo is the new duke, Duke Duke
38:23
Speaker 1: of Rubino, so, you know, not the worst way for
38:27
Speaker 1: it to end, but there is a bunch of stuff
38:30
Speaker 1: going on. So they end up having a party, right,
38:33
Speaker 1: and they are celebrating and they're having a good time,
38:38
Speaker 1: and they're all drinking wine and the elephants there, and
38:43
Speaker 1: the elephant is offered wine that drinks from a goblet.
38:47
Speaker 1: And then in the middle of this party, Hanno, the
38:51
Speaker 1: elephant head starts to wobble. He starts making noises and
38:57
Speaker 1: then collapses. Now there's two two stories to this, the
39:06
Speaker 1: first being that the elephant was fed gold leaf and laxative,
39:12
Speaker 1: which did something to it, And the other is that
39:19
Speaker 1: the elephant was provided poisoned wine because the wine that
39:25
Speaker 1: the elephant had not drank was supposed to be like
39:29
Speaker 1: celebratory wine for you know, the pope and his pals,
39:35
Speaker 1: and so Leo starts getting suspicious, who out of everybody
39:43
Speaker 1: was going to do that to him? But Leo sees
39:47
Speaker 1: what's happening, and he decides to tell people that someone
39:54
Speaker 1: is planning to impart him, and he has a reason
39:57
Speaker 1: for that. But first his beloved Hannah the Elephant gets
40:03
Speaker 1: a full church funeral, a full church service proper, like again,
40:10
Speaker 1: really loved the elephant very much into this, and so
40:16
Speaker 1: he has a massive funeral for it. And then Hannah
40:18
Speaker 1: the Elephant is buried under the Vatican where their bones
40:23
Speaker 1: still lay, like that elephant is still there. So here's
40:28
Speaker 1: the thing. Pope Leo has a lover, the twenty six
40:32
Speaker 1: year old Cardinal Alphonso Patricci. Now Leo has ousted Patricci's
40:39
Speaker 1: cousin and he is well mad, and so he ends
40:42
Speaker 1: up heading back to Siena, which does not sit well
40:46
Speaker 1: with the Pope, not at all. So Siena the tennis Siena.
40:52
Speaker 1: It is a town, it's a city. It's Tuscan city technically. Yeah,
40:57
Speaker 1: it is a rival of Florence, which is the pope city.
41:01
Speaker 1: So they're basically like my town against your town. So
41:09
Speaker 1: he had put like Sienna under the protection of the papacy,
41:13
Speaker 1: so like Pope's like, I'm looking after that, to worry
41:15
Speaker 1: about it, and yeah, Patuci ends up involved in this
41:20
Speaker 1: alliance and he's trying to negotiate retaking the city, and
41:25
Speaker 1: Leo was pest absolutely mader this. He's fucking not with
41:32
Speaker 1: it at all, not get on the situation. And so
41:37
Speaker 1: like one is betrayed, the other's betrayed. They're all pisted
41:39
Speaker 1: over with each other. And he decides he wants to
41:43
Speaker 1: get rid of him, and he is looking at his elephant,
41:46
Speaker 1: he's looking at everything around him, and he goes, you
41:48
Speaker 1: know what, I've got a plan. I'm going to accuse
41:53
Speaker 1: him of murder. And that's what he does. So he
41:59
Speaker 1: ends up sending like a letter to Portrucci offering him
42:04
Speaker 1: safety and security and like, you know, everything's fine, we
42:07
Speaker 1: just want to chat and have a talk, and so
42:12
Speaker 1: he brings him over and he arrives only to be arrested. See,
42:18
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to Petrucci, a bunch of people from servants to
42:24
Speaker 1: surgeons have been rounded up, tortured and interrogated, and they
42:30
Speaker 1: were all pointing the finger to like this conspiracy of cardinals.
42:35
Speaker 1: And you've got the surgeon who's like, yeah, he paid
42:39
Speaker 1: me to poison him during a surgery for his Inno
42:45
Speaker 1: Festulis so like he was just gonna like poison his
42:49
Speaker 1: ass quite literally, like that's what he says. And then
42:54
Speaker 1: you've got sort of these letters appear saying that the
42:57
Speaker 1: person did this, this person did that, and they get
43:01
Speaker 1: arrested and people are shocked and a bit a bit worried.
43:08
Speaker 1: So all the main players involved, they are found guilty
43:11
Speaker 1: in a trial by a bunch of cardinals. Right, so
43:15
Speaker 1: you have Nini and Vicelli and Riario Petrucci. They're all
43:21
Speaker 1: found guilty. So Nini and Vercelli were hung, drawn and
43:26
Speaker 1: quartered with their bodies displayed on the bridge outside of
43:28
Speaker 1: the Castle Santangelo, you know, to prove a point. And
43:36
Speaker 1: Petrucci was supposed to be a few days later. But
43:40
Speaker 1: between these executions and the next round of executions, Leo
43:45
Speaker 1: appoints thirty one new cardinals, like doubling the size of
43:50
Speaker 1: the college, like since the re establishment of the single paper,
43:54
Speaker 1: say in Rome, like sixty seventy years before, Like the
44:00
Speaker 1: most amount of cardinals had been appointed at any one
44:03
Speaker 1: time was twelve. But he went for thirty one, almost
44:07
Speaker 1: as if he was trying to get more people in
44:09
Speaker 1: his corner, right, So he manages to elect elect to
44:14
Speaker 1: create amount. But it was like four Florentines, Medici allies
44:22
Speaker 1: and laws cnes, including Raphael Patricci, so like a rival
44:31
Speaker 1: branch of the cardinal's family, Alfonso's family, so effectively, a
44:38
Speaker 1: lot of these older cardinals that had been there, their
44:41
Speaker 1: power had sort of been displaced, and this new college
44:44
Speaker 1: of cardinals had appeared. So yeah, there was supposed to
44:49
Speaker 1: be an execution for Alfonso Patricci like three days after this,
44:55
Speaker 1: and the remaining conspirators quote unquote were freaking out, so
45:02
Speaker 1: Souly his family goes to France and asks the crown
45:05
Speaker 1: to like jump in in his behalf zick. The government
45:11
Speaker 1: of Genoa manages to intervene to Castalysi flees to Rome
45:16
Speaker 1: and like loses all of his like good shit, and
45:23
Speaker 1: he gets stripped of being cardinally like loses everything. One
45:28
Speaker 1: of the other conspirators manages to like pull a sagapred
45:31
Speaker 1: and Roy and tricks Leo tense guards into following like
45:35
Speaker 1: a decoy entourage while he manages to sneak the fuck
45:38
Speaker 1: out of Room and Soule who's having a bunch of
45:44
Speaker 1: issues he because of you know, the crown and the
45:49
Speaker 1: government lobbying on his behalf, he gets moved to a
45:52
Speaker 1: most comfortable sell and Riario his family and friends are
45:59
Speaker 1: making arrangements to pay his fine. So like most fines
46:03
Speaker 1: for this for the conspirators was like twelve and a
46:07
Speaker 1: half thousand ducats, Riario his was one hundred and fifty thousand.
46:16
Speaker 1: Like the richest man in Rome, agustinoch Like, he pays
46:23
Speaker 1: like a third of the sum. And Riario gets released
46:28
Speaker 1: at his exile, so he's off, He's buckled off to Naples.
46:31
Speaker 1: Soule is released like a week later, and he's found
46:34
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand ducats and he's confined. He's on home arrest,
46:38
Speaker 1: right home arrest, house arrest, and he's stuck in his
46:42
Speaker 1: house and he loses like a bunch of stuff and
46:47
Speaker 1: then he dies a year later. So eah, So like
46:53
Speaker 1: through all this, Leo makes was half a million ducats
46:59
Speaker 1: out of all this, which is two hundred and fifty
47:03
Speaker 1: times the income of the proest cardinal in Rome. Now
47:12
Speaker 1: what happens for Petrucci? Like he apparently it said you
47:18
Speaker 1: know that he was going to kill the pope Gerrieri
47:20
Speaker 1: yari yea what maybe he said in anger, Maybe he
47:23
Speaker 1: said intentims to say. All we know was that Leo
47:27
Speaker 1: wanted rid of him, and he needed an excuse to
47:30
Speaker 1: do so, and framing someone for murder or attempted murder
47:34
Speaker 1: of the pope during anal surgery is definitely one way
47:37
Speaker 1: to do it. But as Pertrucci is in his cell
47:41
Speaker 1: awaiting his execution, somebody breaks in and strangles him with
47:47
Speaker 1: a red silk cord, which is known as the Turkish method.
47:53
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an intimate death. I mean, I'm not
47:55
Speaker 1: one to get people advice on murder, but that is
47:58
Speaker 1: an intimate, specific death. There are so many other options,
48:03
Speaker 1: in so many ways he could have been executed, but
48:07
Speaker 1: that's a deeply personal personal thing. Maybe it was meant
48:13
Speaker 1: to be an insult, I'm not sure, but it was.
48:15
Speaker 1: It is what it was. Now again, we're still in
48:18
Speaker 1: fifteen seventeen, and there was a lot of stuff happening.
48:21
Speaker 1: So some of you may know.
48:22
Speaker 2: Fifteen seventeen for a very particular reason for the church,
48:27
Speaker 2: and it's because Martin Luther he takes his ninety five
48:31
Speaker 2: these season he nails them to the church door in Germany.
48:36
Speaker 1: See seven years before Martin Leather had actually come to
48:39
Speaker 1: Rome and then seen all the sort of wanting luxury
48:45
Speaker 1: and all of the all of the nepotism and the
48:49
Speaker 1: scheming and just the awfulness he thought, because he was like,
48:54
Speaker 1: this is not good, this is all too much. And
48:59
Speaker 1: so like Leo and Martin Luther, they had they had
49:05
Speaker 1: not done well. Leo had ended up actually excommunicating Martin Leather,
49:11
Speaker 1: which is weird. Do you know how hard it is
49:14
Speaker 1: actually to get excommunicated, Like, it is so hard to
49:17
Speaker 1: be excommunicated by the church. I've tried. It's not an
49:21
Speaker 1: easy thing to do. So basically, this is the start
49:24
Speaker 1: of the Reformation, and you have like these fractures in
49:28
Speaker 1: these factions sort of splitting up, and Protestantism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism,
49:33
Speaker 1: like all of these different sort of branches appear, and
49:39
Speaker 1: they're all going, we're not super into the whole Roman
49:43
Speaker 1: Catholicism right now because of all the dodginess that's happening
49:47
Speaker 1: in the church and all the money landering and you know,
49:52
Speaker 1: making weird crime families happen, and also a lot of
49:56
Speaker 1: this weird family tree, which is a wreath. It's there's
50:00
Speaker 1: a lot of it going on. It's not good. So
50:03
Speaker 1: he is so mad about all of this sort of
50:06
Speaker 1: Reformation shit happening that he releases his papal bull or
50:10
Speaker 1: is that to call it his people bullshit? And he
50:13
Speaker 1: is just so mad, denouncing all so on and so forth,
50:19
Speaker 1: and Martin Luther ends up burning the papal bull he'd
50:23
Speaker 1: been sent because he gets sent because he's like, you
50:26
Speaker 1: need to remove these forty one sentences, which we think
50:29
Speaker 1: are heretical, and you've got like sixty days to do it.
50:33
Speaker 2: He's got a.
50:33
Speaker 1: Deadline, right, and you know, he gets this. He gets
50:39
Speaker 1: this on the fifteenth of June, but it's not until
50:42
Speaker 1: the tenth of December then he actually just drew up
50:44
Speaker 1: burns the damn thing. So he's like, he's like, I mean,
50:47
Speaker 1: that's more than sixty days, that's that is, But he
50:52
Speaker 1: burns it anyway, He's like, ooh, just a big show
50:54
Speaker 1: at this point. It's a big fuck you to him.
50:58
Speaker 1: And and yeah, Leo's like, m M, you know what,
51:05
Speaker 1: you are excommunicated. No, So in fifteen twenty one, King
51:12
Speaker 1: Henry the Eighth he brings a book, Septum Sacramentorum, is
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Speaker 1: presented to put Leo the tenth and Leo gives Henry
51:22
Speaker 1: the title of Defender of the Faith because he's like,
51:26
Speaker 1: so Auntie Martin Luther like he's so Catholic, which is
51:30
Speaker 1: funny in hindsight because yeah, then exactly stick with that
51:37
Speaker 1: to a long did way. But then of course we
51:40
Speaker 1: have Lutheranism is like spreading into Scandinavia. It is just
51:43
Speaker 1: all over the shop, and is it King Christian King? Well,
51:49
Speaker 1: the King's wad and he's like, okay, I'm going to
51:51
Speaker 1: use this to my advantage to push Rome away, because
51:54
Speaker 1: like Leo would give like rewards and stuff from Scandinavia
52:00
Speaker 1: to like people who gave him money and helped him
52:04
Speaker 1: gain more power. So he would do that, and he
52:07
Speaker 1: hinted up like not dealing so much with that after
52:11
Speaker 1: a while, and he didn't really jig it too much
52:14
Speaker 1: because in his later years he was getting he was
52:17
Speaker 1: not well, shall we say, And so he ended up
52:22
Speaker 1: sort of passing the baton to his nephew Juliana, because
52:26
Speaker 1: of course he did, because it's the family affair apparently.
52:30
Speaker 1: So he does that and he ends up becoming incredibly
52:35
Speaker 1: fucking ill because he gets bronco pneumonia.
52:38
Speaker 2: Like.
52:40
Speaker 1: The bad pneumonia, like so much so much illness should
52:45
Speaker 1: have washed his hands more so what I'm saying, And
52:49
Speaker 1: he is so ill like this comes on like sharp
52:51
Speaker 1: and fast in the end of November, and he ends
52:57
Speaker 1: up dying so suddenly that he doesn't get like his
53:02
Speaker 1: last righte so his final sacraments, like he manages to
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Speaker 1: not get them, so that that's that's not a good
53:08
Speaker 1: sign for him. But it's such a fast dead like
53:13
Speaker 1: there's like an idea that he got poisoned, but it's pneumonia,
53:17
Speaker 1: Like all of the signs point to pneumonia. And in
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Speaker 1: the onet of December fifteen twenty one, at the age
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Speaker 1: of forty six, Giovanni di Medici, Popelio the Tenth passes away,
53:34
Speaker 1: and so ends our story of Pope Leo the Tenth,
53:38
Speaker 1: who murdered his lover because he good and had a
53:41
Speaker 1: bit elephant and was super corrupt. If you liked my
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53:50
Speaker 1: You have no idea how much I hope this is current,
53:52
Speaker 1: because I'm on so many painkillers right now, I'm not
53:56
Speaker 1: even sure I did it right. I'm not even sure.
53:58
Speaker 1: Oh my notes, I think I skipt a couple pages.
54:01
Speaker 1: But here we are. We're just gonna have to deal
54:03
Speaker 1: with it, and next week is gonna be better because
54:05
Speaker 1: we're gonna have fun lesbians or at the very least
54:10
Speaker 1: super cool bisexual person. There's there's gonna be some women
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Speaker 1: living women in there somewhere. They're gonna be fucking amazing.
54:17
Speaker 1: So I guess you can follow me on all the socials.
54:20
Speaker 1: I'm on threads and whatever Twitter is called now, I'm
54:24
Speaker 1: on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook. But you know what,
54:30
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a list next week of like all
54:32
Speaker 1: this stuff I'm on and the website's getting updated, so
54:35
Speaker 1: do that, and it's recommendation time. Actually, yes, so I'm
54:39
Speaker 1: gonna recommend the Oh my god, it's Katelister's Doctor Katelister.
54:45
Speaker 1: You know when someone says, like Captain Jack Sparrow, that's
54:48
Speaker 1: like me with Katelister, because I'm like doctor Katelister and
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Speaker 1: lover her so much so. Her book The Curious History
54:56
Speaker 1: of Sex. I think that's the name of it. I
54:58
Speaker 1: don't remember. It's really good. I was reading about it today.
55:02
Speaker 1: I was reading it was very fun. It was a
55:05
Speaker 1: Valentine's gift that I got in the post today. It
55:08
Speaker 1: was very nice. And that's that for reading. For listening,
55:13
Speaker 1: I am going to suggest to listen to the Kinky
55:15
Speaker 1: History Podcast because Valentine's Day is coming up and you
55:19
Speaker 1: deserve that. And listen to Zmy because she's awesome. And
55:22
Speaker 1: for watching. Oh, there's a documentary called the Irish First
55:30
Speaker 1: Sex with Blownderburger. You should go watch that. Do that.
55:36
Speaker 1: It's an art. Go watch it. Okay, And with this,
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Speaker 1: I shall bid you good night of what is in
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Speaker 1: my friends, a bye bye