Talk:Gregorio Leti
Add topicLatest comment: 16 years ago by Dthomsen8 in topic Inspiration?
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Inspiration?
[edit]How can Leti's biography of Pope Sixtus V be the inspiration for the infamous "pound of flesh" in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.[9] when Shakespeare died 15 years before Leti was born?
- ...anecdote similar to the infamous "pound of flesh" is not the same as inspiration. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:32, 20 April 2010 (UTC)