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Castruccio-Castracani

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Duke of Lucca, and chief of the Ghibelline party in that town, the greatest war-captain in Europe in his day; lord of hundreds of strongholds; wore on a high occasion across his breast a scroll, inscribed, "He is what God made him," and across his back another, inscribed, "He shall be what God will make"; d . 1328, "crushed before the moth."

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Castruccio-Castracani'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/castruccio-castracani.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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