was privately married to Alessandra Benucci, widow of Tito Strozzi; she is generally called his mistress.
Ariosto of the North. So Lord Byron calls Sir Walter Scott. (Childe Harold, iv. 40.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.