[471]See Stendhal, "Chronicles of Italy, The Cenci, The Duchess of Palliano," and all the biographies of the time; of the Borgias, of Bianca Capello, of Vittoria Corombona.
[472]Ferdinand, one of the brothers, says (II. 5):
"I would have their bodies
Burnt in a coal-pit with the ventage stopp'd,
That their curs'd smoke might not ascend to heaven;
Or dip the sheets they lie in in pitch or sulphur,
Wrap them in't, and then light them as a match;
Or else to boil their bastard to a cullis,
And give't his lecherous father to renew
The sin of his back."
[473]"Duchess of Malfi," IV. 1.
[474]Ibid. IV. 2.
[475]"Duchess of Malfi," IV. 2.
[476]"When," an exclamation of impatience, equivalent to "make haste," very common among the old English dramatists.—Tr.
[477]"Duchess of Malfi," IV. 2.
[478]Ibid. V. 5.
[479]Ibid. V. 4 and 5.
[480]"Vittoria Corombona," I. 2.