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Edward Gibbon

“Of the three popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim: he fled and was brought back a prisoner: the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy and incest”

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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