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Anthony paused for an instant to admire his correspondent's strong, clear-flowing, determined hand; and then, in that stiff-jointed, formal Tuscan of the schools, which no human being was ever heard to speak, but educated Italians will persist in writing, he read: "Illustrissimo Signore e caro Cugino" Nay, better translate:
"Cullion. It. Coglione, a cullion, a fool, a scoundrel, properly a dupe. See Cully. It. cogionare, to deceive, to make a dupe of.... In the Venet. coglionare becomes cogionare, as vogia for voglia.... Hence E. to cozen, as It. fregio, frieze; cugino, cousin; prigione, prison." Wedgwood refers, he gives another etymology of coglione, and, we think, a wrong one.
As we stopped for an instant to enable him to take down his military cap, I noticed two large photographs with autographs beneath them, one of Lord Beaconsfield, and the other of King Victor Emmanuel, and, as I glanced at the latter, I noticed an inscription beneath it: Al mio caro cugino Bismarck.
These statements, however, do not refute the hitherto generally accepted opinion regarding the descent of Giovanni Borgia, "the younger," and Zambotta certainly was in error the word fratre, which he uses in his letter means merely "dear cousin," fratello cugino. January 14th news reached the Vatican that Cæsar had taken the castle of Forli.
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