TIMELESS BOOKS: The Courtesan by Pietro Aretino

………………………………… (Maestro Andrea) Ben is found Your Lordship. (Messer Maco) Good evening and Happy New Year. I believed to have lost you as and my familiar. (Maestro Andrea) The is better to miss that smarirme. Or here and book; go inside I will read you a little lesson sweet dessert for the first time. (Messer Maco) Ah, master, let me this grace; Teach some flattery now. (Maestro Andrea) Willingly. Open your eyes well because the first and principal things to be good courtier are these: to be able to swear and be heretical. (Messer Maco) Cotesta I do not want to do because I would go to hell and bad for me. (Maestro Andrea) As in hell? Do you not know that in Rome is not a sin to break his neck in Lent? (Messer Maco) Mr yes. (Maestro Andrea) Messer no; and you should know that all those who come to Rome, now they are in Court for its opinion to be practiced, they would never go to Mass for all the gold in the world would speak and then not ever, that the Virgin and the Sagrata he had not in the mouth. ………………….

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