How Long to Read Pope Alexander VI

How Long Does it Take to Read Pope Alexander VI?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 32 minutes to read Pope Alexander VI by Michael Hone

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The moment Alexander VI became pope the alert was given by Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici: ''Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that his world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will inevitably devour us all.''Alexander and his son Cesare have historically been accused of bedding Alexander's daughter, and Cesare's sister, Lucrezia, and to support the accusation two papal bulls were issued in 1501, one stating that her child, Giovanni Borgia, was Cesare's, while the second, kept secret, stated the child was Alexander's.Alexander, Cesare and Lucrezia were present at the infamous Banquet of Chestnuts, during which, wrote William Manchester in his A World Lit Only by Fire: ''Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity.... After everyone was exhausted, His Holiness distributed prizes....''The most vile accusation took place in 1502 when Prince Astorre Manfredi's naked body came to the surface of the Tiber, caught in a fisherman's net, attached to that of his brother. Johann Burchard wrote that both boys had been participants in an orgy along with a large number of very young girls. Burchard states that in addition to Cesare ''a certain powerful person sated his lust'' on the boys, Burchard unable to give Alexander's name because he was in the service of the pope. The girls, all naked, had been tied together in the same fashion. The boys' bodies had torture marks, probably due to Micheletto, Cesare's assassin-in-residence, a homosexual known for his sadomasochism. Like Rome's early emperors, Alexander stole the wealth of cardinals--obliged to forfeit their fortunes to the church at the time of their deaths--by poisoning them, and it was during the dinner of the affluent Cardinal Castellesi that a servant inadvertently served Alexander the poison destined for the cardinal, a storybook ending in the life of a man of enormous intelligence, a tireless worker, a pope who wished the unification of Italy under his son Cesare, for the glorification of the Borgia.

How long is Pope Alexander VI?

Pope Alexander VI by Michael Hone is 148 pages long, and a total of 38,184 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pope Alexander VI Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 28 minutes to read Pope Alexander VI aloud.

What Reading Level is Pope Alexander VI?

Pope Alexander VI is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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