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“a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”
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“Elisabetta Gonzaga de Montefeltro, Duchess of Urbino, was one of the most celebrat women of her age. . . She was much praised for her saintliness in enduring a sexless marriage to Guidobaldo who was both impotent and for much of his life crippled by what was described as 'gout' but was probably rheumatoid arthritis, which deformed his body from a young age. According to the archivist Luzio, despite his impotence Guidobaldo was extremely erotically inclined, so that Elisabetta was in a state of suspense every day in case he might fall upon her and have a relapse.”
― Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
― Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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