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She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.

you draw"
(the painter)

Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare,

Missing rubs the soul raw.

Why I thought, must there always be two conversations? one that women have when there are men present & one we have when we are alone?

Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

If you love a man for his honesty, you cannot become angry when he shows it.

What was once the language of secrecy is now the language of power.

There is more glory in peace than in war,

Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough.

Venice the peaceful demands Venice the just.

Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.

In the chaos of war, I would have looked simply small, and therefore neither a promise nor a threat.

One enemy at the time.

A voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.

Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. Now, when [Pedro Calderon] shuts his eyes, he cannot see anything else.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.

There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.

God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.