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1. What does Castruchio say about rulers serving as soldiers?
2. How does Antonio describe the Cardinal?
3. What is the significance of Antonio’s release from the Quietus est?
4. What does Bosola call an intelligencer?
5. What is the Duchess’s objection to the speech between Ferdinand and the Cardinal?
Answers
1. Castruchio says that it is ill-advised, that “that realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.”
2. Antonio describes the Cardinal as “a...
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