Note 901 — Chapter VI · THE POSITION OF WOMEN.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Paul. Jov. De Rom. Piscibus, cap. 5; Bandello, parte iii. nov. 42. Aretino, in the Ragionamento del Zoppino, p. 327, says of a courtesan: ‘She knows by heart all Petrarch and Boccaccio, and many beautiful verses of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and a thousand other authors.’