giennes

Updated: May 12, 2025

And more than once the same folly was repeated, until the plot getting wind, they were taken and punished for what they might have done, yet durst not do. Two brothers of Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, conspired against him, employing as their tool a certain priest named Giennes, a singing-man in the service of the Duke.

Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius