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The Novels of Matteo Bandello (4); Bishop of Agen
The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen - 4 Author:Matteo Bandello Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Printed for the Villon society ... for private circulation only Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book y... more »ou get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: STfje toaatrti=2KDnitutjj Storg. CARLO SAVONARO1 PUTTETH A CHEAT UPON HIS UNCLE AND WITH THE LATTER'S MONIES MAKETH HIMSELF COUNSELLOR OF TOULOUSE. Following on the subject whereof it hath been spoken, you must know that in Toulouse, a very ancient and populous city, there was no great while agone a priest and doctor of the canon law, by name Messer Antonio Savonaro,1 who was very rich in benefices and so tall of his person that there was no man found in all those parts but he overpassed him by the head and shoulders ; so that he was known of all for his tallness and was still regarded as a marvel. He was made Official to the Archbishop,1 and being very churlish and crabbed and harsher than right required, he got himself such a name through all the country that every one styled him the muckle churl of the thirty ribs;4 which coming to his ears, he was mightily chagrined thereat and fell into such a passion of choler that he might nowise suffer it He bethought him again and again how he should do to rid himself of this name, and the more he showed himself ' iji. Charles Savoniercs. 14. Antoine Savonieres. 1 ij. Judge of the Archiepiscopal Court. 4 The common people apparently supposing him, on account of his great bulk, to have more than the normal number of ribs. . ' . 6I angered thereat, the more berhymed was he in Toulouse and the boys went singing about the streets, " The muckle churl of the thirty ribs;" whereat the poor man was like to go mad. Ultimately, after he had raved amain thereat, he le...« less