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The women of the Renaissance

Note 233 — Chapter V · INTELLECTUAL RESOURCES

George Herbert Ely translation

The duchess of Orleans was so fond of them that her husband could find no finer present to give her than the romance of Troilus and Cressida, and one day she sent a messenger in hot haste after a lady of the court who had borrowed a Cleriadus and forgotten to return it—as often happens.

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