Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 2
The book Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 2 was written by author Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 Or 41-1494 Here you can read free online of Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 2 a good or bad book?
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ISABELLA. i ISABELLA.^ RoDOMONT, King of Algiers, was the fiercest of all the enemies of Christendom, not out of love for his own faith (for he had no piety), but out of hatred to those that opposed him. He had now quar- relled, however, with his friends too. He had been rejected by a lady, in favour of the Tartar king, Mandricardo, and mortified by the publicity of the rejection before his own lord paramount, Agramante, the leader of the infidel armies. He could not bear the rejection ; he cou...ld not bear the sanction of it by his liege lord ; he resolved to quit the scene of warfare and return to Africa ; and, in ' The ingenious martyrdom in this story, which has been told by other writers of fiction, is taken from an alleged fact related in Barbaro's treatise De Re Uxoria. It is said, indeed, to have been actually resorted to more than once ; and possibly may have been so, even from a knowledge of it ; for what is more natural with heroical minds than that the like outrages should produce the Uke virtues ?
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