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Common terms and phrasesacquaintances Alessandro amongst amusing Ancona Anconitan Apennines appeared assassins Austrians beneath Bologna bride brought caffe Carnival carried cavaliere celebrated ceremony Cesena chant CHAPTEE church Ciriaco conversation count course cousins crowd custom dinner display dressed duomo Easter Easter Sunday English eyes forestiera Forlimpopoli friars friends girl going Government hand hear heard heart Holy HOLY THURSDAY husband irreligion Italian Italy Jesuit Jews kissed knight of Malta lady laughing Lent looked Loretto Macerata Madonna manner marchesa marriage married martial law ment miserable morning mother never night noble padrone Palazzo party passed peasants Piedmont Pincian Hill political poor present priests religious remark remember repaired round scene seemed servants signora signorina societa soon sort star and rose streets supper talked taste theatre tion town Tuscany uncle usual Volunnia walking wedding wife women young Popular passagesPage 230 - As long as we remain in the hands of the Pope we shall never be more than a nation of buffoons, opera dancers, singers, fiddlers, priests, and slaves. Page 191 - CRUCIFIXION. 191 carried slowly along ; the sacred form itself, in the utter prostration of death, stretched upon a bier, coming next in view. A few knelt here, not one in twenty though; the rest all listless, unthinking, or unbelieving. Some paces behind, upon a sort of platform, appeared a huge image of the Madonna, considerably above the size of life, dressed in violet robes, with long brown ringlets, and pierced through with seven daggers — all the spiritualized beauty with which the " blessed... Page 205 - ANGEL. 205 times, he addressed himself more particularly to the feelings of his auditors, by recalling the ravages which the cholera had made a few years previous in Ancona, when, out of its then population of 25,000, 1000 were swept away; and finally bade them ascribe their own preservation — the final disappearance of the scourge — to the wondrous picture having been borne, amid the tears and supplications of the inhabitants, in solemn procession through the streets. Page 199 - ... an effect not easily forgotten. Unfortunately, the existence of this venerable pile is threatened by the inroads of the sea, which slowly, but perceptibly, is undermining the cliff; and in a hundred years, it is calculated, the duomo will be in ruins. The votaries of San Ciriaco say, however, that he will not fail to protect his church, and defy the ravages of the elements. The body of the saint, clad in his epis200 LEGEND OF SAN CIRIACO. Page 304 - English policy in all its relations with foreign nations. There is a ring at the bell ! Alessandro rouses himself. It is past six. The friends who form the conversazione begin to arrive, each person staying from one to two hours, according to the number of other houses at which he also habitually visits. Though they come every evening, they never shake hands, at least not those of the old regime, and they have always something new to say. Page 292 - Alas ! we were drawn thither by that ill-fated processo, and became acquainted with a family of your compatriots. I was astonished ! Young men were allowed to come constantly in the evening to the house, and would stand by the piano while the young ladies played, and turn over the leaves of their music-books, or assist them in the duties of the tea-table, laughing and talking without the least restraint; nay, more, hold tete-a-tete conversations over an embroidery-frame or a chess-board, while the... Page 276 - So years and years rolled by, and the poverina not augmenting in good looks, saw her chances 276 of being settled fast diminishing. It is ten years since I came into the family, and then she was nearly thirty-four ! I soon found two partiti for the younger sisters ; but as for Volunnia, though I have made immense researches, hitherto they have been without success. In fact, she is too full of instruction — at least the men think so, and they are afraid of her — and yet, with all her studies,... Page 267 - On one side of this piazza were the stables — perceptible, alas ! to other senses besides the ocular — and on the opposite one rose the staircase, in broad and easy flights; with marble busts of various ancestors of the family in niches upon each landing. The apartments of the marchesa, as wife of the eldest son, were upon the first floor, and thither were we lighted, with great jubilee and welcome, by an old white-headed man in plain clothes — the maestro di casa, whose real name had merged... Page 262 - MARZIASI. roof, where she promoted the discussion of political topics, and the free expression of opinion, by a hardihood and boldness of speech that none of the other members of the coterie would have dared to imitate and on which the protection of her uncle a wealthy cardinal, alone enabled her to venture with impunity. When, after many weary years of wedlock the death of the old... Page 294 - Eoman friends, to see a young woman, but two or three years married, surrounded by a bevy of admirers ; carrying the arts of coquetry to their utmost height, and taking pride in inspiring attachments and receiving declarations which would be esteemed an insult to a modest English wife. And you did not feel shocked, when the first novelty of her gay life was over — when the society THE CAVALIERE SERVENTE. References from web pagesmercadolivre: 1860 The Englishwoman in Italy - Mrs G Gretton ... Comprar Explorações e Viagens - Livros Raros e Colecionáveis ... Comprar Explorações e Viagens - Livros Raros e Colecionáveis ... Bibliographic information
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