mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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The Convent
O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way.
—Lucrezia de’ Medici
On May 26, 1591, as his wife’s shrieks pierced the air, Sforza
Maidalchini waited impatiently for the birth of his child. Everything
depended on the child’s gender. It absolutely must be
a boy.
Born around 1560, Sforza was a man of humble birth and grandiose
dreams. He grew up in the central Italian town of Acquapendente in
the Papal States, a nation of some 1.5 million inhabitants covering
roughly the central third of the Italian peninsula and ruled by the
pope as earthly monarch. Looking around the world of late-sixteenthcentury
Italy, Sforza saw the yawning chasm between rich and poor,
between those who feasted and those who starved. Wealth, position,
prestige—these were the only things that mattered.
As a young man the ambitious Sforza was offered a job in the tax
department of Viterbo, the capital of the province. His task was to assess
the property and income of farmers and livestock owners in the
fertile fields outside the town walls. Everyone who was anyone in town
owned property outside of it, bringing in their own fresh vegetables
and meat rather than buying them at market. Sforza’s work put him in