SEVERUSMAX
Benevolent Master
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Rome, Italy, 1940:
Count Alessandro di Casci woke up in his villa bed, in the arms of his mistress. He wasn't worried about his wife's jealousy, however, if she even felt it. The Contessa was off with her lover, some priest again, the jaded Count thought. Even the pious Italians were no good at monogamy, let alone celibacy. Asking an Italian not to fornicate or commit adultery was like asking a dog not to bark at strangers. It was futile. The national character had always been lecherous, since the early days of ancient Rome, as witnessed by the rape and abduction of the Sabine women.
If Popes had mistresses (and most of them did), then the Holy See could hardly enforce the 7th Commandment with any kind of righteous zeal or credibility in the minds of most Italians, who lived too close to the Vatican to believe that it was a stronghold of chastity. No, best to enjoy adultery to the maximum, avoid worse and most other sins, and make a full confession on your deathbed, when you knew for sure that you wouldn't repeat the sin.
Then again, the lovely young lady sleeping next to him, secure in his arms, was not just any young woman in her 20s, young enough to be his daughter: she WAS his daughter. Yes, he was involved in incest, as well as adultery. And that wasn't the end of his secrets. Their affair was, shall we say, rather unorthodox in style. Very prone to indulging their mutual fetishes. In fact, his daughter was an ideal lover for him, aside from occasional arguments over his adherence to the Church in most ways and his willingness to continue his marriage of convenience to her mother. Not that she was jealous or wanted him to be faithful to her. She was a very submissive sort when not plotting for her own purposes. No, it was that her mother had the legal status that she craved, the public recognition as being something that she was not all: his mate. The truth was that his real helpmate was his daughter...his beloved....
Count Alessandro di Casci woke up in his villa bed, in the arms of his mistress. He wasn't worried about his wife's jealousy, however, if she even felt it. The Contessa was off with her lover, some priest again, the jaded Count thought. Even the pious Italians were no good at monogamy, let alone celibacy. Asking an Italian not to fornicate or commit adultery was like asking a dog not to bark at strangers. It was futile. The national character had always been lecherous, since the early days of ancient Rome, as witnessed by the rape and abduction of the Sabine women.
If Popes had mistresses (and most of them did), then the Holy See could hardly enforce the 7th Commandment with any kind of righteous zeal or credibility in the minds of most Italians, who lived too close to the Vatican to believe that it was a stronghold of chastity. No, best to enjoy adultery to the maximum, avoid worse and most other sins, and make a full confession on your deathbed, when you knew for sure that you wouldn't repeat the sin.
Then again, the lovely young lady sleeping next to him, secure in his arms, was not just any young woman in her 20s, young enough to be his daughter: she WAS his daughter. Yes, he was involved in incest, as well as adultery. And that wasn't the end of his secrets. Their affair was, shall we say, rather unorthodox in style. Very prone to indulging their mutual fetishes. In fact, his daughter was an ideal lover for him, aside from occasional arguments over his adherence to the Church in most ways and his willingness to continue his marriage of convenience to her mother. Not that she was jealous or wanted him to be faithful to her. She was a very submissive sort when not plotting for her own purposes. No, it was that her mother had the legal status that she craved, the public recognition as being something that she was not all: his mate. The truth was that his real helpmate was his daughter...his beloved....