legnaggio

Updated: May 11, 2025

There was a circumstance attendant on his birth which had, probably, exercised great and early influence on his ambition. But, according to the contemporaneous biographer, Rienzi, in addressing Charles, king of Bohemia claims the relationship from his father "Di vostro legnaggio sono figlio di bastardo d'Enrico imperatore," &c.

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