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 | | An account of the banquet is preserved in Johann Burchard's Liber Notarum. |
 | | According to Burchard, "prizes were offered - silken doublets, pairs of shoes, hats and other garments - for those men who were most successful with the prostitutes" (Johann Burchard, Liber Notarum, translated by Geoffray Parker as At the Court of the Borgia, Folio Society, London 1963, p. |
 | | According to William Manchester, "Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity." (1) Burchard, however, makes no reference to this in his account of the banquet. |
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