He criticized the monarchy and the mandarinate for failing to save the country and to help the people in their hour of greatest need.

Whereby he grew to such wealth, that of late he bequeathed by his last will and testament ten millions of Sesterces unto his native city Marsils toward the fortifications therof, besides the walls that he caused to be built and emmanteled about other towns , which cost him little under the foresaid summe.

The middle-finger gesture is really a nonverbal swear.

For example, it is not unusual for various holy figures, sometimes fighters or wandering mendicants, to be “Sufized” after […]