"Universa gens supra mortales cæteros conviviorum studiosissima. Ea enim per varias et exquisitas dapes, interpositis musicis et joculatoribus, in multas sæpius horas extrahunt, ac subinde productis choreis et amoribus fœminarum indulgent, &c."
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Historiarum sui temporis libri XLV (1550–52) bk. 11. Quoted and translated by Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 6th ed. (1651) pt. 2, sec. 2, memb. 6, subs. 4
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Paolo Giovio
1483 – 1552
Paolo Giovio (also Paulo Jovio; Latin: Paulus Jovius; 19 April 1483 – 11 December 1552) was an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate.
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