Excerpt from A Princess of the Italian Reformation: Giulia Gonzaga, 1513-1566, Her Family and Her Friends In reading their tangled story, it often appears to be quite a secondary matter on which side they fought 'whether for Emperor, or Pope, or King Of France, for themselves, or even on some trivial pretext concerning the boundary of a petty State. TO add to our sense of unreality, these stately warriors all wrote poetry - like everybody else - and it became almost a point Of chivalry for the victor to console the ...
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Excerpt from A Princess of the Italian Reformation: Giulia Gonzaga, 1513-1566, Her Family and Her Friends In reading their tangled story, it often appears to be quite a secondary matter on which side they fought 'whether for Emperor, or Pope, or King Of France, for themselves, or even on some trivial pretext concerning the boundary of a petty State. TO add to our sense of unreality, these stately warriors all wrote poetry - like everybody else - and it became almost a point Of chivalry for the victor to console the vanquished hero with a sonnet or an epigram - to set him free and send him rejoicing on his way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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