Stanzas After The Tournament

“Eros, known as Cupid, chuckled with glee.
His pleasure? He’d cause that boob of the sacred
to heel, roll over as Venus’ son devotee.”
What “boob”? A real-life prince: Giuliano de Medici, jousting champion and younger brother of Florence’s Lorenzo, known then and forevermore as “Il Magnifico.”
Bel Julio, fanatic of the hunt and convinced prude, flips over the horns of a golden-antlered doe. Enchantment springs into new kinds of chase, and magic more confusing, more seductive, more instructive: love.
A True-Life Fable Interrupted By A Beatific Orgy & You Are In It.
(Illustrated)