Brewer's: Paulo

The cardinal, brother of Count Guido Franceschini, who advised his scapegrace bankrupt brother to marry an heiress, in order to repair his fortune. (Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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