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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Ariosto

was privately married to Alessandra Benucci, widow of Tito Strozzi; she is generally called his mistress.

Ariosto of the North.
So Lord Byron calls Sir Walter Scott. (Childe Harold, iv. 40.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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