Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481)
‘Ad Gasparum Mercatum Valentiae Comitem.’
Non venio, Gaspar, nam sudant inguina multo
aestu, quo testes tres mihi bella movent.
I am not coming, Gaspar, for my groins sweat with so much
heat that my three testicles make wars against me.
Carlo de’ Rosmini, Vita di Francesco Filelfo da Tolentino, 3 vols (Milan: Presso Luigi Mussi, 1808) I, p. 113. My translation. Filelfo had adopted the Greek nickname ‘τριόρχις’ (‘three testicles’).