GR translation: jeweled gauntlets

[Mike Weaver]

Hi Mike,

  check out the Borgias - a search on 'jeweled gauntlets Borgias' 
produced this.

> /"The gloves of Catharine de' Medici, Queen of France, wife of Charles 
> IX. These gloves were poisoned by Conotelli, the celebrated alchemist. 
> To put one on is said to be certain and painless death, leaving no 
> trace whatsoever. The secret, which belonged originally to the 
> Borgias, died with the physician of the great Catharine.".../
I'm too busy now to check out authenticity but something like that was 
my first thought.

cheers

Yr humble sevant M2


On 18/08/2025 08:36, Mike Jing wrote:
> V582.37-583.5, P592.39-583.7   Vendettas, jeweled gauntlets, subtle poisons
> come infiltrating this well-mannered parlor with the picture of Herbert
> Hoover on the piano, the pinks in the Nieman-Marcus bowl, the Bauhaus-style
> furniture like alabaster slabs of a model city (you expect little HO trains
> to come whirring out from under the davenport, cans ’n’ reefers on and on
> across the carpet’s ash-colored lowland . . .). Alfonso Tracy’s long face,
> creased either side of the nose and on around the mustache line, dragged
> down by worries, thirty years without a genuine smile (“Even Laurel & Hardy
> doesn’t work for me any more!”), morose with fright in his easy chair. How
> could Lyle Bland not be touched?
>
> What does "jeweled gauntlets" mean here exactly? What is it supposed to
> symbolize?
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