She wore a lined robe in the Neapolitan fashion, as did also Madonna Lucretia, who, after a little while, went out to remove it.

She returned shortly in a gown almost entirely of violet velvet.

When vespers were over and the cardinals were departing, I left them.
The close association with Giulia, to whose adulterous relations with her father Lucretia was the daily witness, if not a school of vice for her, at least must have kept her constantly in contact with it.

Could a young creature of only fourteen years remain pure in such an atmosphere?
Must not the immorality in the midst of which she was forced to live have poisoned her senses, dulled her ideas of morality and virtue, and finally have penetrated her own character?
FOOTNOTES: [27] Cod.

Aragon, ii, 2.67, ed Trinchera.
[28] Carte Strozziane, filz 343.