At the auction of the San Donato collection of pictures a portrait of Dianora Frescobaldi, by one of the Bronzinos in the sixteenth century, sold for about $3000.

At the bottom of this portrait was an inscription stating that she was the mother of 52 children.

This remarkable woman never had less than 3 at a birth, and tradition gives her as many as 6.
Merriman quotes a case of a woman, a shopkeeper named Blunet, who had 21 children in 7 successive births.

They were all born alive, and 12 still survived and were healthy.

As though to settle the question as to whom should be given the credit in this case, the father or the mother, the father experimented upon a female servant, who, notwithstanding her youth and delicateness, gave birth to 3 male children that lived three weeks.