Download or read book Stories From Old Italian Romance (Classic Reprint) written by Susan Cunnington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories From Old Italian Romance Much struck with this observation, the King dispatched messengers to Spain to inquire exactly into the bringing up of the horse. They returned, bearing word that its mother had died soon after it was born, and that it had been reared with a young ass. The King was greatly astonished to find the prisoner's opinion thus justified, and ordered that in future he should be given half a loaf of bread a day in his prison, at the royal expense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.