After the crime had been committed, however, the Pope dismissed it from his mind, both because he did not dare to bring Caesar--whom he had forgiven for the murder of his brother--to a reckoning, and because the murder would result in offering him opportunities which he desired.

He spared himself the trouble of directing useless reproaches to his son, for Caesar would only have laughed at them.

Was the care with which Alexander had his unfortunate son-in-law watched merely a bit of deceit?
There are no grounds for believing that the Pope either planned the murder himself or that he consented to it.
Never was bloody deed so soon forgotten.

The murder of a prince of the royal house of Naples made no more impression than the death of a Vatican stable boy would have done.

No one avoided Caesar; none of the priests refused him admission to the Church, and all the cardinals continued to show him the deepest reverence and respect.