Bishop

Despite the social expectations on a person of his eminence and position, the bishop was still an individual with sins. He addressed those around him as nephews, this being a term for illegitimate sons whom he fathered. The vows and his position as a bishop did not prevent him from committing adultery.

Despite the bishop existing in a privileged position in society, death renders the individual alone. The reader is able to see the foolishness of the bishop in his pleas for how his body was to be treated after his death, and his apparent belief that he would still somehow be able to think and see from within his body after death. Yet, he was still bound by the pre-conceptions of society Eto have glamour and position even at death, when it stopped meaning anything. He was afraid that his son and ‘nephewsEwould revel down my villas after his death. He tried to use blackmail and threats such as else I give the Pope my villas in order to get what he wants, but fails.

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