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Word: agapitos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...some historians think, on the contrary, that Borgia senior was quite handy at murder), son Cesare stormed and conquered numerous fortresses in Italy. Men who got in his way were ruthlessly disposed of by his Spanish henchman, Don Michelotto, or quietly turned over to his bland and terrifying secretary, Agapito, who, in Author Balchin's version, sounds comically like P. G. Wodehouse's inimitable Jeeves, and who removes undesirable Borgia enemies as distastefully as if they were Bertie Wooster's vulgar cravats and checked suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Add Poison, to Taste | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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