she-gallants

Updated: July 27, 2025

Perhaps, as I am speaking of Monna Vittoria, I should add the Aspasias to my short catalogue of she-gallants, for Vittoria was a woman well accomplished in the arts, well-lettered, speaking several tongues with ease, well-read, too, and one that could talk to her lovers, when they had the time or the inclination for talking, of the ancient authors of Rome, and of Greece, too, for that matter did I not say her mother was a Greek? and could say you or sing you the stanzas of mellifluous poets, most ravishingly to the ear.

Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy - The God of Love