To an untrained eye, it would have seemed as if Cardinal Montalto has either disregarded his nephew’s death or forgiven his killers in the purest example of Christian mercy. The next day after Francesco’s death, Montalto appeared in the consistory in his usual red robe instead of the mourning prescribed by the tradition of grief,...

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