Vulgar words in The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60 (Page 1)
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The wretched profligate who was thus selected to mate with the Emperor's eldest born child and to appropriate the fair demesnes of the Tuscan republic was nominally the offspring of Lorenzo de Medici by a Moorish slave, although generally reputed a bastard of the Pope himself.