Sources:
Christine de Suède et le cardinal Azzolino: Lettres inédites (1666-1668), page 52 (footnotes), by Baron Carl Bildt, 1899
Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: The Age of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina of Sweden, 1622-1656, page 529, published by Oskar Garstein, 1992
The letter excerpt:
Questo (della Cueva) con li suoi la predicano per la maggior putana del mondo.
French translation (my own):
Cet homme [de la Cueva] et ses partisans proclament qu'elle [Christine] est la plus grande putain du monde.
Swedish translation (my own):
Den här mannen [de la Cueva] och hans anhängare utropar henne [Kristina] som den största slampan i världen.
English translation (my own):
This man [de la Cueva] and his followers are proclaiming her [Kristina] to be the greatest whore in the world.
Above: Kristina.
Note: This letter is now lost, "owing to the devastations of World War II", according to a personal note from the director of the Archivio di Stato in Naples, dated November 24, 1987. It was sadly never published in full before its destruction.
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