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was publifhed at the fame time, and ufually accompanies it. This monfrer
is faid to have been born at Freyburg, in Mifnia, and is Hmply a rather
coarfe emblem of the monachal charaiier.
The volume of caricatures juft mentioned contains feveral fatires on
the pope, which are all very fevere, and many of them clever. One has
a movable leaf, which covers the upper part of the pi-Eture; when it is
down, We have a reprefentation of the pope in his ceremonial robes, and
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over it the infcription ALEX VI PONT MAX. Pope Alexander VI.
was the infamous Roderic Borgia, a man {iained with all the crimes and
vices which iirike mofl horror into men's minds. When the leaf is raifed,
another figure joins itfelf with the lower part of the former, and reprelents
a papal demon, crowned, the crofs being transformed into an infirument
of infernal punilhment. This figure is reprefented in our cut No. 149.
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