Note 91 — Book the Second (continued 5)

It appears to be a little inconsistent of a Pope, Who wished Messer Rafaele Sanzio to paint Him with a Sword and not a book in His hand, to object to a Cardinal in a Breast-plate: for the sword is the weapon of offence; but the Breast-plate, of defence merely. But many terms in this Bull are simply “corroborative detail calculated to lend an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative”—simply words, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”