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Word: leonello (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistics in such a book can be intriguing: the 800 mistresses of Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who counted them); the 2,000 oxen and 80,000 fowl reportedly consumed at the two-week wedding feast for Niccolo's son Leonello and Maria of Aragon; the 200 souls trampled to death in a traffic jam on Rome's Sant' Angelo bridge during the 1450 jubilee celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scoundrels and Statistics | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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