Status Updates From The Medici

Finished it.
It's ironic how it only takes one religious nut with a long lifespan to undo the hardwon glories of his ancestors.

Cosimo III to his dissolute son: okay, you can go to Venice but don't be too much of a slut there.
Ferdinando: ok boomer. *brings back a castrato twink with him called Cecchino*

God bless Ferdinando for being such an icon.

Robert Boyle also recorded the unpleasant experience of being 'somewhat rudely pressed by the preposterous courtship of two friars whose lust makes no distinction of sexes.'

welcome to italy, i guess.
also, 'two lustful friars' would make an excellent title for a secret sex diary