Who, then, were these cardinals who refused his bribes?
Or are we to suppose that, notwithstanding that refusal--a refusal which we may justifiably suppose to have been a scandalized and righteously indignant one--they still afforded him their votes?
1 "...essendo concordi tutti i cardinali, quasi da contrari voti rivolti tutti in favore di uno solo, crearono lui sommo ponteflce" (Casanatense MSS).

See P.Leonetti, Alessandro VI.

2 "Fu pubblicato il Cardinale Vice-Cancelliere in Sommo Pontefice Alessandro VI( to) nuncupato, el quale dopo una lunga contentione fu creato omnium consensum--ne ii manco un solo voto" (Valori's letter to the Otto di Pratica, August 12, 1492).

See Supplement to Appendix in E.Thuasne's edition of Burchard's Diarium.
This charge of simony was levelled with the object of making Alexander VI appear singularly heinous.

So much has that object engrossed and blinded those inspired by it, that, of itself, it betrays them.