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The Story of Siena and San Gimignano

Note 122 — Chapter VIII · The Last Days of the Republic

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Cardinale, Cardinale, Tu ci rechi poco sale; Siena, Siena, verrà il medico, E ti guarirà dal farnetico.

Quoted in Rondoni, Siena nel secolo xvi. p. 250. For other prophetic doggerel of the same kind ascribed to Brandano, see Olmi, I Senesi d’una volta, p. 270. Brandano died in Siena during the siege, in May 1554.

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