Название: Cesare Borgia
Автор: Rafael Sabatini
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Документальная литература
isbn: 4064066382360
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3. Ferdinand Gregorovius, Lucrezia Borgia.
4. See, inter alia, the letters of Alfonso d’Este and Giovanni Gonzaga on her death, quoted in Gregorovius, Lucrezia Borgia.
5. “Et multa alia dicta sunt; que hic non scribo, que aut non sunt; vel si sunt, incredibilia” (Infessura, Diarium).
6. La Vie de César Borgia.
7. Thus in the matter of the fifty silver cups tossed by the Pope into the ladies’ laps, “sinum” is the word employed by Infessura—a word which has too loosely been given its general translation of “bosom,” ignoring that it equally means “lap” and that “lap” it obviously means in this instance. M. Yriarte, however, goes a step further, and prefers to translate it as “corsage,” which at once, and unpleasantly, falsifies the picture; and he adds matter to dot the I’s to an extent certainly not warranted even by Infessura.
8. See Corlo, Storia di Milano, and Lodovico’s letter to Charles VIII, quoted therein, lib. vii.
BOOK II.
THE BULL PASCANT
Roma Bovem invenit tunc, cum fundatur aratro, Et nunc lapsa suo est ecce renata Bove.
From an inscription quoted by Bernardino Coaxo.
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