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That Time a Parrot Brought Down the Papacy
Send us Fan MailOr, How a Foul-Mouthed Fowl Nearly Blew Up the Vatican Bank… and a Few Marriages Alright, buckle up, you magnificent degenerates, because we’re diving face-first into the filthiest, most feathery scandal of the High Renaissance. The year is sometime in the late 1490s—don’t ask me for specifics, I’m three negronis deep—and Pope Alexander VI, the OG Rodrigo Borgia himself, is living his best, most sinful life. We’re talking orgies in the Apostolic Palace, promoting his bastard son Cesare to Cardinal at seventeen, and generally treating the Chair of Saint Peter like a fuckin’…
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