Florentine palaces & their stories

part in it, but I dissuaded my Lord from making an appeal to another

court, so that the Albanies now reside in it; though the contract heightened the price considerably. What the Comte complained of most was, that he should meet with so rebellious an opposition from one of his own subjects. The ladies still vye with each other in beauty, so that they can never more be friends.” The ...