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Clement VIII. in his reform added new hymns but did not remove nor retouch the old ones. Urban VIII., Maffeo Barberini, was a poet of no mean rank. Before his election to the papacy, he was a recognised lover of classical literature and an adept in following classic themes and classic forms.
They went to the house of the Polo family, demanding entrance and claiming to be Nicolo Polo, Maffeo, his brother, and Marco, son of the elder of the two brothers, Nicolo.
And as for the Borgias, they would have poisoned her on the spot had they seen her! She wore a short-waisted jacket with a short skirt attached and a voluminous lace ruffle, a curly wig too long for a man and too short for a woman, upon which sat jauntily a Faust-like hat with a long, sweeping plume. This was her idea of a medieval Maffeo Orsini.
"And thou, Giuseppe!" cried a smiling mother from Mazzorbo, proudly indicating her boy as an object of interest, and pushing him into a more prominent position "the bambino hath seen it with his own eyes, since he is prentice at the metal graver's shop of Messer Maffeo Olivieri on the Rialto; thou, tell us, Giuseppe, of this great goblet of graven silver which the Master Olivieri hath ready for the presentation, by order of the Signoria.
"Maffeo, what was that you heard about these cursed Turks, when you were ashore?" "Didn't I tell you? Well, I heard that they had landed upon Komao, a little island near " "I know it well." "Where there were only a hundred inhabitants. Monilon, the principal man there, was seized, beaten, robbed, and the worst of it was, his daughter Iona was carried away." "What! carried away? Iona!
"Maffeo," said he to his lieutenant, "how goes the wind now!" "There is not any wind to go," said Maffeo, a strong and hardy man who was leaning over the side. "Well, I think we will have a wind very soon." "A wind? Do you? Why?" "I feel it." "You can always tell, I know not how, when there will be a wind. We are ready for it, however."
But no sooner was the mischief well on foot, than Maffeo, with his sons and their partisans, ran to Henry, telling him that all the disturbance had been occasioned by the La Torre family, who, not content to remain peaceably in Milan, had taken the opportunity to plunder him, that they might ingratiate themselves with the Guelphs of Italy and become princes in the city; they then bade him be of good cheer, for they, with their party, whenever he wished it, were ready to defend him with their lives.