Status Updates From Inventing the Renaissance

I like how she tries to get you to remember figures eg battle pope 2. There are a lot of random people she starts going on about though so many Lorenzo's and similar!

Exciting

Ippolito d'Este (1479-1520), an abbot aged three, archbishop at eight, Cardinal at fourteen, and partly raised in Hungary by his aunt Queen Beatrice. In 1505, aged twenty-six, he had his half-brother Giulio's eyes gouged out in a quarrel over their mutual love for Angela Borgia (c. 1486- c. 1522) which sparked a multi-decade feud.

....I mean it would, wouldn't it.