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Updated: May 22, 2025

Brettone's countenance fell it was his object to get Rienzi more and more in his power, and he wished not to suffer him to gain that strength which would accrue to him from the fall of Palestrina: the indifference of the Senator foiled and entrapped him in his own net.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes