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Giovanni Zucchetti, of Mantua, immediately followed with a similar opuscule: Lucrezia Borgia Duchessa di Ferrara_, Milano, 1869.— Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
[73] Yet neither he nor any one else on his side has ever effectively shaken the solid argument which Diderot fancifully illustrated in the following passage from his reply to Voltaire's letter of thanks for the opuscule: "This marvellous order and these wondrous adaptations, what am I to think of them?— Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)
Zucchetti, of Mantua, immediately followed with a similar opuscule:— Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
Few lovers of old books and good binding will begrudge half a florin for this quaint opuscule.— Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc
_Fiammetta_ is the name by which Boccaccio designates his mistress, the Princess Maria of Naples (the lady for whom he cherished "the very high and noble passion" of which he speaks in his Proem), in his earlier opuscule, the "Elégia di Madonna Fiammetta," describing, in her name, the torments of separation from the beloved.— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

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