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    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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