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Alexander Lee notes that, "The so-called “Banquet of the Chestnuts” ...is, for example, attested only in Burchard’s memoirs, and is not only intrinsically implausible, but was also dismissed as such by many contemporaries.[who?][1]

The author, Alexander Lee, believes there is only one source for the story, which is patently wrong. All reputable scholars have a dispatch by the Florentine Ambassador, Francesco Pepi, written four days after the incident, and a 'letter' written by Silvio Savelli, two weeks after the incident. Lee's title itself is clearly tendentious, as is his reasoning, based on the probability argument.

--Vicedomino (talk) 07:01, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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