Wouldst thou look down upon him, my fine man?
Well...
In 1475 Gabriele Rangoni,
Bishop of Eger (and a former papal legate),
[143] understood that Vlad had been imprisoned because of his cruelty.
[144] Rangoni also recorded the rumor that while in prison Vlad caught rats to cut them up into pieces or stuck them on small pieces of wood, because he was unable to "forget his wickedness".
[144][145] Antonio Bonfini also recorded anecdotes about Vlad in his
Historia Pannonica around 1495.
[146] Bonfini wanted to justify both the removal and the restoration of Vlad by Matthias.
[146] He described Vlad as "a man of unheard cruelty and justice".
[147] Bonfini's stories about Vlad were repeated in
Sebastian Münster's
Cosmography. Münster also recorded Vlad's "reputation for tyrannical justice".
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