Page 50 - Catarina the Wise
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- I too am a widower, with two little boys.
By the end of the week they were married. She
grew pregnant, the months passed: the story
cross the time: her labor pains came, and she
delivered a baby girl, as beautiful as the sun and
the moon.
-What shall we name her? - Asked the prince.
-Venezia.
And so they baptized herVenezia.
Two years went by.
- I’m thinking,- the prince said to Catarina, - that
I’ve done enough traveling, and it’s time for me
to go back to Palermo. But here’s what I’ll do:
before I go I’ll give you a document stating that
this girl is my daughter and a royal princess.
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