The Banquet of Chestnuts, known more properly as the Ballet of Chestnuts, refers to a fête in Rome, and particularly to a supper given by Don Cesare Borgia on October 30, 1501, an account of which is preserved in Johann Burchard's Liber Notarum. Fête is a French word meaning festival or holiday, which has passed into English as a label that may be given to certain events. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Cesare Borgia (September, 1475 – March 12, 1507), Duke of Valentinois, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) and Vannozza dei Cattani. ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 1501 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The banquet was given in his appartments in the palazzo apostolico. Fifty decent prostitutes or courtesans attended. After the food was eaten, lampstands holding lighted candles were placed on the floor and chestnuts strewn about. The prostitutes, naked and crawling between the candelabras, were encouraged to them pick up. According to the diarist Burchard, the papal Master of Ceremonies, "prizes were offered - silken doublets, pairs of shoes, hats and other garments - for those men who were most successful with the prostitutes". State Banquet. ... The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. ... A courtesan is a person paid and/or supported for the giving of social companionship and intimate liaisons to one or more partners. ... Species - Bush Chinkapin* - Japanese Chestnut - American Chestnut - Henrys Chestnut - Chinese Chestnut - Ozark Chinkapin - Alleghany Chinkapin - Sweet Chestnut - Seguins Chestnut * treated as a synonym of by many authors Chestnuts (Castanea), including the chinkapins, are a genus of eight or nine species of trees and shrubs in the beech family...

According to William Manchester, "Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity." (1) William Manchester William Manchester (April 1, 1922–June 1, 2004) was a historian and biographer, notable as the author of 18 books that have been translated into 20 languages. ... An Example of a Virile Man, notice the masculine hat made from animal furs. ...

See also

• List of sexually active popes
• Pornocracy

Since the 13th century, a discipline of the Catholic Church has required priests in Latin Rite (i. ... Pornocracy is a term that has been used to mean government by or domination of government by prostitutes. ...

References

• (1) William Manchester, A World Lit only by Fire, p. 79. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York and London, 1992. ISBN 0316545562
• John Burchard, Pope Alexander VI and his Court. Extracts from the Latin Diary of the Papal Master of Ceremonies, 1484–1506. Ed. F. L. Glaser, New York, 1921.