A passage from the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ( pizzagate )

submitted by combatveteran

The main character, Dorian Gray, becomes obsessed with a novel about sin and debauchery. A chapter of the book is described by describing various people who did bad things, including:

Giambattista Cibo, who in mockery took the name of Innocent, and into whose torpid veins the blood of three lads was infused by a Jewish doctor

A reference to Pope Innocent VIII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VIII

edit: typo

carmencita

Minnich (2005) notes that the position of Renaissance popes towards slavery, a common institution in contemporary cultures, varied. Minnich states that those who allowed the slave trade did so in the hope of gaining converts to Christianity.[16] In the case of Innocent he permitted trade with Barbary merchants in which foodstuffs would be given in exchange for slaves who could then be converted to Christianity.[16]

King Ferdinand of Aragon gave Innocent 100 Moorish slaves who shared them out with favoured Cardinals.[17] The slaves of Innocent were called "moro", meaning "dark-skinned man", in contrast to negro slaves who were called "moro nero".[18]

shewhomustbeobeyed

wiki - https://archive.is/vRund

In July 1492 Innocent fell into a fever. He was said to have been given the world's first blood transfusion by his Jewish physician Giacomo di San Genesio, who had him drink the blood of three 10-year-old boys. The boys subsequently died. The evidence for this story, however, is unreliable and may have been motivated by antisemitism. Innocent VIII died himself on the 25th of July.

combatveteran

thanks.

shewhomustbeobeyed

sure.

Plant_Boy

I think I'll need to read the book.

carmencita

He was a horrid and immoral person so I always took it to mean that his face reflected his soul.

Plant_Boy

Read the wikipedia page on it and the plot says he met a girl and wanted to change to try and fix the picture but the way in which he looked to fix it is by stroking his vanity even more (trying to improve himself by treating a girl better but it was only to make himself better) He never really knew what sacrifice meant. He was so tied up in his own personal image, his vanity, that he doesn't know what it means to be selfless.

carmencita

I see and also remember his indifference to her taking her life after being jilted and he seems to quickly recover. Possibly he consoles himself with the fact that she was not of his standing anyway. I think this was a major event that led to the further spiral downward. This was once a favorite movie of mine because it showed the difference of good and evil. Sybil being the simple good and he being the selfish evil. Also the beautiful song Yellow Bird by Angela Lansbury. Also the devil is clearly visible.

carmencita

Kind of kills the whole thing when you are always the reason. In the end it's all about you. We now know how the soul looks when this is your life's purpose. Yourself always. I will read the page.

Plant_Boy

That should be I read the wikipedia page... rather than me telling you to read it.

i_scream_trucks

"That bitch plagiarized me!" - Dorian Greene.

eldorann

"This shade of mauve is beautiful ". Dorian Colormix