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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Negroni

A princess, a friend of Lucrezia di Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara. She invited to a banquet the nobles who had insulted her friend, and killed them with poisoned wine. (Donizetti: Lucrezia di Borgia, an opera.)

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