Alarming Accident to the Pope
His Holiness, in promenading yesterday on the Corso, met with a sad accident. His foot slipping in a puddle of blood, he fell and broke his head. The accident has been pronounced to be a fracture of the temporal bone.
--From Punch, or The London Charivari--
That was supposed to be a joke, from a publication similar to Mad Magazine, but much more serious and political. Almost every issue piled scorn upon His Holiness.
I suppose this is the price you may have to pay if you insist on mixing your politics and your religion.
4 comments:
Heap away, dude.
Hey those popes liked to drink in those days. Anything is possible.
Hey you think you could come up with some woodcuts of sexy babes in scanty attire from this time period?
Strictly for historical research purposes of course.
I bet they would be plus size too!
Hey you think you could come up with some woodcuts of sexy babes in scanty attire from this time period?
I'll see what I can do, but history is cruel.
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