. The romance of Monaco and its rulers . p. 70] RAINIER GRIMALDI. The Exacting Lady and her Troubadour 71 House of Villeneuve, beautiful and elegant, andshe, (plainly an exacting lady), not content with hisunstinted devotion, gave him to drink a love-potion(/^ hreuvage amatoire) * si quen pen de iours luy-mesme se priva de vie de ses propres mainSy eagS detrente-cinq ans, que fut en Van 1308, dont elle encuida recevoir la mort des reproches quon luy faisaitd*avoir faid cruellement mourir un si savant et fameuxpoete. I have read in an old paper of some kind,adds Nostredame, that this Luke came


. The romance of Monaco and its rulers . p. 70] RAINIER GRIMALDI. The Exacting Lady and her Troubadour 71 House of Villeneuve, beautiful and elegant, andshe, (plainly an exacting lady), not content with hisunstinted devotion, gave him to drink a love-potion(/^ hreuvage amatoire) * si quen pen de iours luy-mesme se priva de vie de ses propres mainSy eagS detrente-cinq ans, que fut en Van 1308, dont elle encuida recevoir la mort des reproches quon luy faisaitd*avoir faid cruellement mourir un si savant et fameuxpoete. I have read in an old paper of some kind,adds Nostredame, that this Luke came fromGenoa. Soprani, in the Scrittore della Liguria,observes crushingly that his works have servedas nourishment to the voracity of Time ; but hiscontemporary fame was glittering, and one almostfancies that he may have rejoiced to die as he diddie, so triumphantly did it fit his part. To drinka love-potion, run mad, and kill himself at theage of thirty-five—could any troubadour ask formore! I find, immortalised in the Decameron, anothe


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