Brewer's: Pietro

(2 syl.). The putative father of Pompilia, criminally assumed as his child to prevent certain property from passing to an heir not his own. (RobertBrowning: The Ring and the Book, ii. 580.) (See Ring.)

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