Somehow one should collect them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_o ... _elections
Here is a wikipedia article with "Gambling on papal elections" ... somehow one gets the impression, that the gambling industry sponsors such things ...
... however, at the election of Leo X: "In the city the betting on the candidates was feverish. The odds were posted up at the Banchi as they are at a race-meeting, Medici rising to 25 while his competitor remained steadily at 15."
http://www.pickle-publishing.com/papers ... -leo-x.htm
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"The Venetian ambassador estimated the revenue of Leo X. at about 400.000 ducats. But presents and the expenses on gambling absorbed at least 8.000 ducats a month, as much as the returns of all the vacant sees; table expenses came to nearly as much, so that 200.000 ducats a year were spent over these two items."
http://books.google.com/books?id=pO7GkO ... ng&f=false
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"He [pope Leo] also liked gambling and card games, which he played with the cardinals in public, again scattering gold coins to the onlookers, and he excelled at chequers, though that is not a lively spectator sport."
http://books.google.com/books?id=8LCPCh ... ng&f=false
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At the same place is spoken about his fun over the triumph-joke of a poet Baraballo, which is presented as this ...
and as a story here ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=ojqpRz ... eo&f=false
