[De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia]

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{text: ...suit. touch than she is. I do not wonder that he wanted her demonstrated naked to his guards. So that he might take fuller joy. I would do the same if the opportunity were there, to show Lucrecia naked to you. Otherwise, I cannot express to you how unknown her beauty is; you can consider how solid and full my joy was. But rejoice with me, because my pleasure was greater than can be expressed. Thus Eurialus with Achates and other things was speaking about Lucrecia. His fate, however, was minor in levity, for he did not have faith in others regarding the silence of his affairs so that he could report the matter. When the rest were asleep, he did not dare to tell everything.}

Pacorus, a Pannonian knight, noble by birth, who was following Cesar, began to burn for Lucrecia, and because he was handsome, he thought he was loved in return, and he thought that only her wisdom and modesty stood against him. Her way is this: with our women, she looked at everyone with a smooth face. It is art, she suspected, rather that true love should not be made public. Pacorus was inflamed, nor could he be consoled, wishing to know Lucrecia's mind. The matrons of Siena are accustomed to visit more often a chapel at the first milestone, which they call Bethlehem. To here Lucrecia was setting out, accompanied by two virgins and a certain old woman. girl Pacorus follows, holding a violet in his hand, written on the gilded leaves, on whose neck he hides a love letter in subtle membranes. by seeing weeping and he adds thus he says Lest he send it. Cicero hands over to him the entire Iliad Pliny's Iliad written so subtly that it seemed to him that it could be enclosed in the shell of a nut. looks at Pacorus offers the violet to Lucrecia and commends himself. Lucrecia refuses the gift. Pacorus insists with great prayers. Then the old woman, "Receive," she says, "mistress, the given flower. What do you fear where there is no danger? What is the matter that you can appease this soldier?" Lucrecia followed the old woman's persuasion and received the violet. Having proceeded a little further, she gave the violet to one of the virgins. Nor long after, two students met them, whom they induced to trade the flower to them for the virgin, for not much business. And having opened the stem of the violet, they found the love poem. This kind of men was accustomed to be pleasing to our matrons. But after Cesar's court came to Siena, it began to be mocked, despised, and held in hatred. Because the noise of arms rather than the charm of letters delighted our women. From here, they were in mutual dispute and in great ... love? they were seeking ... it is said to be done? that they might harm the soldiers in all ways they could. As therefore the guile of the violet was revealed, she soon went to Menelaus and asks him to read the letter. He, sad, goes home, scolds his wife, and fills the house with shouts. The wife denies that she is the culprit and explains the actions, and brings the old woman as testimony. One goes to Cesar, a complaint is made, Pacorus is called. He, however...