The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Vol. 5 of 6 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life And Pontificate Of Leo The Tenth, Vol. 5 of 6

IF the Lucretia of ancient history has been considered... as the glory of her sex, the Lucretia of modern Rome has been alleged as an example of its disgrace and its shame. From her own times to the present, her depra vity is on historical record; yet many circumstances con cur to raise considerable doubts in the mind of an im partial inquirer, whether the horrible 'accusations under which her memory labours be well founded. Amidst the licentiousnèss that characterized the age in which she lived, the most flagrant charges acquire a probability which they could not in another period obtain; and among the vices of the times, calumny and falsehood have in general been at least _as active as the rest.

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