title: The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
author:  Elizabeth Lev 
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  Juana
  
  
    
    
  Chapter 1 - Exposition  
    
  Chapter 2 - Auction  
    
  Chapter 3 - The History Of Madame Diard
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Juana
  
  
  ### Honore de Balzac
  
  
  ##### Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  
  
  
  
  To Madame la Comtesse Merlin.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JUANA
  
  
  (THE MARANAS)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. EXPOSITION
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced
  
  
  into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of
  
  
  trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain
  
  
  fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking
  
  
  resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it.
  
  
  Order being re-established, each regiment quartered in its respective
  
  
  lines, and the commandant of the city appointed, military
  
  
  administration began. The p