pupil-princes

Updated: July 15, 2025

You were then but a child, you are scarcely yet a woman; yet have I not given to your intellect the strong food on which the statesmen of Florence fed their pupil-princes, or the noble Jesuits the noble men who were destined to extend the secret empire of the imperishable Loyola?"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Lucretia — Volume 01

You were then but a child, you are scarcely yet a woman; yet have I not given to your intellect the strong food on which the statesmen of Florence fed their pupil-princes, or the noble Jesuits the noble men who were destined to extend the secret empire of the imperishable Loyola?"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Lucretia — Complete