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But this, poor old ciuco, more just and reasonable in this case than his brother potentate, the Protestant Don Giovanni of Lucca, refused to do.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

I may find room further on to say a few words of what I remember of the revolution which dethroned poor gran ciuco.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

If ever there was a revolution “made with rose-water,” it was the revolution which deposed the poor gran ciuco.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

Ica uc bilic. loco videacur e 4iamecro adverfari quam tamen repugnanciam nullam efle concendic Baluzius, ciuco e Fauli Juris confulci libris ceftimonio.

Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692

I believe the Grand Duke (gran ciuco ” great ass ” as his irreverent Tuscans nicknamed him) was a good and kindly man, and under the circumstances, and to the extent of his abilities, not a bad ruler.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

The phrase, which Giusti applied to him, and which the inimitable talent of the satirist has made more durable than any other memorial of the poor gran ciuco is likely to be, “asciuga tasche e maremme” ” he dries up pockets and marshes ” is as unjust as such mots of satirists are wont to be.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887