Ribald Classic: The Long, Long Night

June, 1975

This happened in the days when Duke Ranier of Anjou, driven from the kingdom of Naples, was pleased to tarry a few seasons in Florence. Two of the cavaliers who followed him, involved in the shipwreck of his fortunes, were Filippo de Lincurto and Ciarlo d'Amboia, two sturdy, sportive, handsome young men.They made a habit of daily rides through the streets and it was on one of these that Filippo first noticed Donna Teresa, the lovely young wife of a Florentine nobleman, and was pierced through th...

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