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Updated: June 3, 2025
As he made this exclamation the fugitives found their way opposed by a woman, who looked at them with immodest eyes and said, "Dirck Van Dara, your sire, in wig and bob, turned us Cyprians out of New York, after ducking us in the Collect. But we forgive him, and to prove it we ask you to our festival."
Therefore the poet is right in feigning to find her in the sphere of Venus. For if the gentle Cyprians deified their Venus, and the Romans their Flora, how much more honestly may a Christian poet save Cunizza."
There is a manuscript collection of poems of the time of Alexander VI which contains a series of epigrams beginning with a number in praise of the Holy Virgin and the Saints, and then, without word or warning, are several glorifying the famous cyprians of the day; following a stanza on S. Pauline is an epigram on Meretricis Nichine, a well-known courtesan of Siena, with several more of the same sort.
Yet how had the Republic kept faith with Cyprus? Step by step, through the years, drawing the velvet clasp closer closer until there was scarce life left smiling the while: gathering in the revenues of the rich land amply, with no care to spend them on the welfare of the island, or for its increase: slowly, strenuously, with deft insinuations of filial duty, striving to dominate the young Queen's moral judgments and press the claims which were of Venice's own creation jealously watching lest she become too popular, and hampering her action through the very officers sent in guise of help lest through freedom she should in truth grow strong to rule: Year by year stealthily smiling under a cloak of splendor which the Cyprians loved, Venice had grasped at power a little more, and a little more until resistance was impossible.
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