This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...XI. that were to form the first part of his famous history. 1 "A Guion de Bue... la somme de 60 livres turnois, pour icelle estre par lui employee a faire faire une cage de fer, pour la surrete et garde de la personne du Cardinal d'Angiers." Jean de Troyes (Livre des faits advenus au temps du roi Louis XI. .." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...XI. that were to form the first part of his famous history. 1 "A Guion de Bue... la somme de 60 livres turnois, pour icelle estre par lui employee a faire faire une cage de fer, pour la surrete et garde de la personne du Cardinal d'Angiers." Jean de Troyes (Livre des faits advenus au temps du roi Louis XI. ..". et autres grandes et merveilleuses diableries qu'il ecrivait audit duc de Bourgogne par un sien serviteur, qui de ces dites lettres et instructions qu'il portait fut trouve saisi...". Memories of even more stirring deeds, beneath a brighter sky, were to come to another famous prisoner later on, in whose ears Dante's words were ringing--" Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." The inscription that translates this is attributed to Ludovico Sforza, whose dungeon is at the end of interminable passages and dank labyrinths of rock within the foundations of a third tower across the courtyard begun by Louis XL, of which only the Salle des Gardes of Louis XII. now remains above ground. Our descent " in infernos " now began. Within a little doorway the woman who guided us was striving to light a small and sputtering lamp that seemed to resent being compelled to show off these subterranean mysteries. A narrow twisting staircase leads down to the level of the moat outside barred with great doors at every turn. A hundred steps below ground is the cell of Ludovico Sforza, called II Moro, Duke of Milan. On the wall opposite the window, which gathers through a slit in fourteen feet of rock what little light has strayed into the shadowy passages from the sunny fields of Touraine above, is a small square scratched on the stone to mark the only spot touched by the daylight. The room is also strangely decorated with rough...
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