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-"Roma Bovem invenit tunc, cum fundatur aratro, Et nunc lapsa suo est ecce renata Bove." -From an inscription quoted by Bernardino Coaxo.
You see Cesare Borgia, now in his nineteenth year, raised to the purple with the title of Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Nuova--notwithstanding which, however, he continues to be known in preference, and, indeed, to sign himself by the title of his archbishopric, Cardinal of Valencia.