VITTORIA. And then the Duchess, how shall I describe her, Or tell the merits of that happy nature, Which pleases most when least it thinks of pleasing? Not beautiful, perhaps, in form and feature, JULIA. She draws me to her As much as her Duke Ercole repels me. VITTORIA. Then the devout and honorable women Francesca Bucyronia, the true-hearted, JULIA. Boccaccio would have envied you such dames. VITTORIA. No; his Fiammettas and his Philomenas I fear he hardly would have comprehended MICHAEL ANGELO. Yet he wrote The story of Griselda. That is something To set down in his favor. MICHAEL ANGELO. The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world. VITTORIA. With these ladies Was a young girl, Olympia Morata, Daughter of Fulvio, the learned scholar, |