Note 13 — CHAP. I.
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Voltaire, Essai sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations, chap. 69. The Cavaliere Tonelli is of opinion, that Joanna was innocent of this crime, which is not imputed to her by the best Neapolitan historians, Costanzo and Giannone. See Ton. Tr. tom. i. p. 16.