Vulgar words in Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 202 ~ ~ ~
Both were bastards, but in the Este family this was never held to be a bar to the succession.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 234 ~ ~ ~
But a few days afterwards, while Duke Ercole was away from Ferrara, his wife was surprised by a sudden rising, the result of a deep-laid conspiracy, secretly planned by his nephew, Niccolo, a bastard son of Leonello d'Este.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,979 ~ ~ ~
The following letter affords a characteristic specimen of the kind of fooling which these great Renaissance lords and ladies carried on at the expense of the half-witted jesters and buffoons who were attached to their different households:-- "DEAR SISTER AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND EXCELLENT LADY, "You know what good sport we had in the wild boar-hunts at which you were present this last summer.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,324 ~ ~ ~
King Charles had gone to visit his ally the Duchess of Savoy at Turin, and was consoling himself for the toil and disappointments of the campaign by making love to fair Anna Solieri in the neighbouring town of Chieri.