Talk:Gregorio Leti

A fact from Gregorio Leti appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that all of the publications of 17th century Milanese historian Gregorio Leti were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July.

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Inspiration?

How can Leti's biography of Pope Sixtus V be the inspiration for the infamous "pound of flesh" in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.[9] when Shakespeare died 15 years before Leti was born?

...anecdote similar to the infamous "pound of flesh" is not the same as inspiration. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:32, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]