too-elaborate

Updated: June 2, 2025

We have the too-elaborate epistles of BEMBO, secretary to Leo X., and the more elegant correspondence of ANNIBAL CARO; a work which, though posthumous, and published by an affectionate nephew, and therefore too undiscerning a publisher, is a model of familiar letters.

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions