Vulgar words in Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series (Page 1)

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II.--THE MURDER OF IPPOLITO DE' MEDICI After the final extinction of the Florentine Republic, the hopes of the Medici, who now aspired to the dukedom of Tuscany, rested on three bastards--Alessandro, the reputed child of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino; Ippolito, the natural son of Giuliano, Duke of Nemours; and Giulio, the offspring of an elder Giuliano, who was at this time Pope, with the title of Clement VII.

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He now determined to rule Florence from the Papal chair by the help of the two bastard cousins I have named.

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He calls himself 'un certo omiciatto, che non รจ nessun di voi che veggendolo non l'avesse a noia, pensando che egli abbia fatto una commedia;' and begs the audience to damn his play to save him the tedium of writing another.

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