Talk:Johann Burchard

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Alexander Lee notes that, "The so-called “Banquet of the Chestnuts” ...is, for example, attested only in Burchard’s memoirs, and is not only intrinsically implausible, but was also dismissed as such by many contemporaries.

The author, Alexander Lee, believes there is only one source for the story, which is patently wrong. All reputable scholars have a dispatch by the Florentine Ambassador, Francesco Pepi, written four days after the incident, and a 'letter' written by Silvio Savelli, two weeks after the incident. Lee's title itself is clearly tendentious, as is his reasoning, based on the probability argument.

--Vicedomino (talk) 07:01, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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