Note 146 — Chapter IX
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Such, at least, is the key afforded by Sansovino to the obscure couplet inscribed on his tomb in his great edifice of S. Francesco:—
"Porto le corna ch'ogn'uno le vede, E tal le porta che non se lo crede."
Baldi asserts for all his wives an unblemished reputation, and charges him with the murder of but two of them. Mazzuchelli alleges that he jilted or repudiated the first, and made away with the next two.