Coup De Main
First he won his wife, Joanna, by a coup de main; he fell in love with her when she was a girl, in Rome; then, she was going to be sent into Scotland to be married; but she had to go through Verona, to the Adige gate. So Can Grande pounced upon her; declared she was much too precious a gempreziosa gemma to be sent to Scotland, and she went no farther.