Another described him as "a disreputable and dissolute degenerate". He seems to have been the classic Restoration rake, dissolute and riotous. He is a selfish and dissolute young man. He dismisses Paolo's son and biological heir, Fabrizietto, as dissolute, shallow and aimless. Over time, the dynasty becomes morally corrupt and dissolute. He is a dissolute Venetian lusting after Othello's wife Desdemona. The story charts the decline of a drunken and dissolute poet, Baal. William had a reputation for drunkenness and a dissolute character. His subjects also followed him and led a vicious and dissolute life. These events alternate with chapters that describe the dissolute lives of wealthy yacht owners. Cass, a dissolute younger son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner. She notes that her dissolute and abusive husband has bankrupted the estate through mismanagement. Beauclerk describes Buckhurst&colon; "Cultured, witty, satirical, dissolute, and utterly charming". Satirists such as Juvenal complain about the dissolute behavior of women. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the dissolute youth of Alessandro Farnese.