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Lucretia Borgia

CHAPTER VII
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Anchora lue e dotato di bone parte.

Despatch of March 19, 1493.
[26] Mai fu visto il piu carnale homo; l'hama questa madona Lucrezia in superlativo gradu.

Boccaccio's Despatch, Rome, April 4, 1493.

The word _carnale_ is to be taken only in the sense of nepotism, as it is plainly so used elsewhere by the ambassador..


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