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She had suffered so much that he could not be angry. Leonardo Donato's eyes quickly scanned the faces of the senators, seeking the two least sympathetic. "The Senators Morosini and Sagredo will escort them," he said, "and will return in haste with the Senator Giustiniani to do their duty to the Republic."
Sagredo says that Djem died at Terracina three days after having been consigned to Charles VIII, of poison administered by Alexander, to whom Bajazet had promised a large sum of money for the deed. The same is practically Giovio's statement, save that Giovio causes him to die at a later date and at Gaeta; Guicciardini and Corio tell a similar story, but inform us that he died in Naples. 1 In Mem.
Salviati, who is the true philosopher in the dialogue, was the real name of a nobleman whom we have already had occasion to mention. Sagredo, the name of another noble friend of Galileo's, performs a secondary part under Salviati. He proposes doubts, suggests difficulties, and enlivens the gravity of the dialogue with his wit and pleasantry.
Salviati and Sagredo being well-known personages, it was inferred that Simplicio must also have a representative.
[Footnote 1: Sagredo, who had lately arrived as ambassador extraordinary, thus describes the power of Cromwell: "Non fa caro del nome, gli basta possedere l'autorit
M. D R followed his leaders, and Madame Sagredo, having set the ladies in motion, they all called upon him, with the exception of Madame F , who told me laughingly that she would not pay him a visit unless I would consent to introduce her. I begged to be excused. The knave was called your highness, and the wonderful prince styled Madame Sagredo his princess.
In conversation people generally do not object to a witty jest causing merriment and laughter." "True; only those who have not wit enough to laugh do not like the jest." "I bet a hundred sequins that the madman will recover, and that, having the general on his side, he will reap all the advantages of his imposture. I long to see him treated as a prince, and making love to Madame Sagredo."
Then comes the garden of the Palazzo Pesaro, now the Paraguay consulate; then the Sagredo, an extremely ancient Gothic building with a beautiful window and balcony, now badly served by paint and stucco and shutters; and then another traghetto at the Campo S. Sofia, with a vine ramping over its shelter.
By Sagredo, the Venetian ambassador, who resided during the war at Amsterdam, we are told that the Dutch acknowledged the loss of one thousand one hundred and twenty-two men-of-war and merchantmen; and that the expense of this war exceeded that of their twenty years' hostilities with Spain.
He accused you of seducing all the girls, and of threatening to shoot him if he dared to pronounce 'cataramonachia' against you. This letter, which was read publicly at the evening reception, made the general laugh, but he ordered me to arrest you all the same." "Madame Sagredo is the cause of it all." "True, but she is well punished for it. You ought to call upon her with me to-morrow."
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