“Insatiable, impatient, impossible.”
Lauren Weisberger book The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada
“Insatiable.”
Describing the Borgias
Dated 1498 or earlier. Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Cesare Borgia / His Life and Times (1976), p. 72
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