More than this, however, was needful to palliate even in Swift the brutal allusion to her Importunacy in "Gulliver," unless, as is but too possible, the passage in question be an outbreak of ferocious spleen against her victorious rival.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
This letter must have been written when Michelangelo was still working on the frescoes of the Cappella Paolina, and therefore before 1549. The check to his Importunacy, given with genial tact by the Marchioness, might be taken, by those who believe their liaison to have had a touch of passion in it, as an argument in favour of that view.
"The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"
John Addington Symonds