ABSTRACT
Messer Paolo Marchese, a Neapolitan and a doctor of great repute, having heard that a certain friend of his, who in a brief space of time had consumed all his substance, was about to be divorced by his wife because he was impotent and had not been able to consummate the marriage, said: " It is a remarkable thing that this man who has consumed 1 his substance so quickly, has not yet consummated 1 his marriage."
