Today I read 750 pages, and made the disturbing discovery that Clement VII was totally hot before the Sack of Rome. (Compare the 1531 portrait at the top with the 1526 one [Rome was sacked in 1527] at the bottom.) My embarrassment is furthered by the fact that I burst into tears the other day when I read that he died in 1534, which is a fact I already knew and have never before cared about. You guys, I am totally over-invested in A DEAD POPE. I probably should have seen this coming when I named my hamster after him.