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residence of the popes.

36-5: =Alejandro Borja=: Rodrigo Borgia, a Spaniard, became pope in
1492. Died 1503.

36-6: =como bueno=: _like a hero_.

36-7: =Cosenza... Pavia=: the first three cities are in southern
Italy; _Pavia_ is a town of northern Italy (near Milan), the scene of a
battle in which Francis I of France was defeated by the Spanish in 1525.
He remained a prisoner in Spain till 1526.

36-8: =Murat=: the apothecary is not quite able to repress his hatred
of Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and commander at Madrid,
particularly detested because of his barbarous massacre of the
_Madrilenos_ after the _dos deMayo_ (cf. note _2 de Mayo_, p. 35, 5).