Capitolo 76
imposing character. Gregory XVI., although ugly and pimply, it is said to
you/he/she has had a great air.
Pius IX. plays his/her part in the sumptuous shows of the Roman Catholic
Church indifferently well. The believer who I/you/they have come away from to see
he completes Mass, it is an a little amazed to see a pinch take him/it of
tobacco in the mean of the clouds blue-dyed of incense. In his/her times
of ease he plays to billiards for exercise, from order of his
physicians.
He believes in God. Not only he is a good Cristiano but a lover. In
his/her enthusiasm for the Virgo Mary, he has invented an useless dogma,
and it disfigured the of of Spain Plaza from a monument of bad taste. His
moralses are pure, as they has always been, also when he was a youth
priest: such examples are common enough among our clergy, but rare,
don't say miraculous, over the Alps.
He has nephews that, marvelous to report, neither it is rich neither
you begin powerful, neither equal. And there is not still anybody law that prevents him
to spoil his/her subjects for the benefit of his/her family. Gregory
XIII. gives his/her nephew Ludovisi L160,000 of good paper, so a lot of value
money. The family of Bourgeois bought to a hit ninety-five farms with
Paul's V. money An errand that he/she met him in 1640, under the
the Reverend's Father Vitelleschi presidence, General of the Jesuits,
definite to put an end to such abuses that the Popes owe
confine to involving ownership to the amount of L16,000 a
per annum on them nephew of favourite and his/her family (with the right of
creating a second heir to the same rights), and that the portion
of each of their nieces L36,000 should not exceed.
I am aware that nepotism fell in disuse to the principle of
the eighteenth century; but there was not anything to prevent Pius IX. from
bringing again it in way, after the example of Pius Vi., if him
select; but he doesn't choose to do this way. Its relationships are of the
according to order of the nobility, and it is not rich: he has not done anything to