She already had a moretta,
not black enough to suit her taste,
but she hoped this one would
become
the best buffoon in the world.
On top of that, Isabella,
was so enchanted with her
acquisitions that she spent
ten ducats to get possession
of a moretto barely two years old
and not yet baptized.
And these were not isolated facts,
For at that time, Isabella of Aragon,
wife of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, had,
in addition to three white slaves,
ten blacks,
seven of them female,
in her service.
Luzio and Renier
in Jean Devisse, 1979
ìBlack servingwomanî Portugal, circa 1550
Sesimbra,, Duchess of Palmela collection.
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