Does he fancy, because he wears red stockings, that the blood of his Orsini can mingle with the blood of France?
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About Pope Nicholas III, who had proposed a marriage between his niece Orsini and Charles of Anjou's son. Quoted in Giovanni Villani's Nuova Cronica, p. 279. Cited in Jules Michelet's History of France, translated by G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882), p. 338