D'Auvergne, Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) · London, T.W. Laurie · leaf 292
tic happiness of Ercole, but for a wifes coldnessa man could always in those days find consolation inthe smiles of a mistress ; what troubled him was hisduchesss singular habit of speculation in religiousmatters. In the happy days before the Council ofTrent, you could disbelieve anything so long as… … FERRARA AND ESTE 241 courtesy. Enjoy yourselves, gentlemen, we canimagine him saying. That is our great idea at thiscourt. It was not, however, the idea of the black-gowned, gloomy-browed Calvinists. Among them,little suspected by the good folk of Ferrara, was, itis said, Calvin himself, who passed…
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