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the conduct of the knight; Roberto was indignant; Aurelia rejected her fiancé with scorn; and Camiola took the veil.—Massinger: The Maid of Honour (1637).

Bertoldo, the chief character of a comic romance called Vita di Bertoldo, by Julio Cesare Crocê, who flourished in the sixteenth century. It recounts the successful exploits of a clever but ugly peasant whom nothing astonishes. Hence the phrase, Imperturbable as Bertolde (never disconcerted). This jeu d’esprit was for two centuries as popular in Italy as Robinson Crusoe is in England.

Bertoldo’s Son, Rinaldo.—Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered (1575).