Tag, I'm it
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people. I think everyone has done it. If not, concider yourself 'tagged'
Alexander liked to contrast his own tolerance with his son's vengefulness: 'The Duke,' he told Beltrando Costabili, 'is a good-hearted man, but he cannot tolerate insults...I could easily have had the Vice-Chancellor [Ascanio Sforza] and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere killed: but I did not wish to harm anyone...' It was a curious remark for a pope to make. In the wake of all this, the Ferrarese envoy Gian Luca Pozzi felt obliged to reassure Ercole d'Este as to the virtuous character of his future daughter-in-law: 'Madonna Lucrezia is a most intelligent and lovely, also exceedingly gracious lady.
It's the biography of Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford. Ah, Renaissance history. What isn't to love.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people. I think everyone has done it. If not, concider yourself 'tagged'
Alexander liked to contrast his own tolerance with his son's vengefulness: 'The Duke,' he told Beltrando Costabili, 'is a good-hearted man, but he cannot tolerate insults...I could easily have had the Vice-Chancellor [Ascanio Sforza] and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere killed: but I did not wish to harm anyone...' It was a curious remark for a pope to make. In the wake of all this, the Ferrarese envoy Gian Luca Pozzi felt obliged to reassure Ercole d'Este as to the virtuous character of his future daughter-in-law: 'Madonna Lucrezia is a most intelligent and lovely, also exceedingly gracious lady.
It's the biography of Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford. Ah, Renaissance history. What isn't to love.