Quotes About Charles V

In the Netherlands of Charles V, for instance, it could be heard on the lips of Pieter Florisz., a tailor in Gouda, who said that Our Lady was like 'a sack that had once held cinnamon, but now only retains the sweet savour'. In a rather less flavoursome version, Willem die Cuper said that she was like a flourbag from which the flour had been emptied.

El emperador Carlos v decía: "El resto de las ciudades son ciudades, sólo París es un mundo". En

The bags full of Turkish noses sent by the Uskoks from Senj to Charles V in 1532 may have been one of those gifts more fun to send than to receive,