high—class lady and was found doing naughty things to her in a convent, it was an early kind of casanovae. you can have great on with this. you don't have to worry about trashing shakespeare, because even a nurse has got a back story. rahman the nurse had a back story, because we don't know really who she is in a book. it was fascinating when richard did the play, because he said, i hope you like the accident i have given her. i said i am sure it will be fine, and then he started to perform it and the accent of the nurse in the play, is a brummie. that taught me an awful lot about... i learned so much from him in writing this book, you don't need to try and be italian, need to try and be real. because that worked perfectly. and that tells you where she comes from. the other thing that is very vivid in the book, and you write about this in the preface, as the afterword, is the sense of italy at that moment, right at the end of the 15th century where everything was happening, even machiavelli busy, his painting is at a peak, the politics of the places heaving, and you bring it all to bear.