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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)

CHAPTER VII
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Julius, bent and emaciated, has the nervous glance of a passionate and energetic temperament; though the brand is hoar with ashes and more than half burned out, it glows and can inflame a conflagration.

Leo, heavy jawed, dull-eyed, with thick lips and a brawny jowl, betrays the coarser fiber of a sensualist.
[1] He would have given it to Giuliano, but Giuliano was an honest man and remembered what he owed to the della Rovere family.

See the 'Relazione' of Marino Giorgi (_Rel.

Ven._ ser.
ii.

vol.iii.p.


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