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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 381 — Chapter IV · MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

This was probably the case with Cardinal Ardicino della Porta, who in 1491 wished to resign his dignity and take refuge in a monastery. See Infessura, in Eccard. ii. col. 2000.

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