Salve Venetia: Gleanings from Venetian History, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - Venice (Italy) |
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Page 31 - It is the picture representing the lastf supper that Jesus took with His disciples in the house of Simon. Q. Where is this picture ? A. In the refectory of the Friars of SS. Giovanni and Paolo.
Page 200 - Pope Julius II., the Emperor Maximilian, Louis XII. of France, and Ferdinand of Aragon agreed to destroy the Venetian Republic, and when it looked as if they must succeed, the Company of the 'Eternals' produced a mummery which was highly appreciated both by the government and the population.
Page 153 - Quisquis es, rogat te Aldus etiam atque etiam : ut si quid est quod a se velis perpaucis agas, deinde actutum abeas : nisi tanquam Hercules defesso Atlante, veneris suppositurus humeros. Semper enim erit quod et tu agas, et quotquot hue attulerunt pedes.
Page 29 - ... said to me by the reverend fathers, or rather by the prior of the monastery of San Giovanni e Paolo, whose name I did not know, but who informed me that he had been here, and that your Most Illustrious Lordships had ordered him to cause to be placed in the picture a Magdalen instead of the dog; and I answered him that very readily I would do all that was needful for my reputation and for the honour of the picture; but that I did not understand what this figure of the Magdalen could be doing here....
Page 336 - ... economic phenomenon unconnected with any elemental and mystical tendencies of human history or with secular changes of human behaviour. The history of western Europe, and for that matter the history of the world, is not a continuous record of expanding exchanges. The unbroken growth of world trade between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth has misled historians into believing that the growth of world trade had been equally unbroken in the past. Medievalists...
Page 240 - ... wife merely in name ; on that subject you may rest contented : she will even be better off, for she will be richer than she is at present; and in the mean time you can go on in your own way. Fear nothing on her account ; no, my dear friend, fear nothing ; she will mix in the world with her dotard, but I shall watch over her conduct. Yes, yes, she is yours ; I pledge myself for that ; I give you my word of honour.
Page 32 - I have been told was rich and magnificent, should have such servants. Q. And the one who is dressed as a jester with a parrot on his wrist, why did you put him into the picture ? A. He is there as an ornament, as it is usual to insert such figures. Q. Who are the persons at the table of Our Lord ? A. The twelve apostles.
Page 32 - He is a servant who has a nose-bleed from some accident. Q. What signify those armed men dressed in the fashion of Germany, with halberds in their hands ? A. It is necessary here that I should say a score of words. Q. Say them. A. We painters use the same license as poets and madmen, and I represented those halberdiers, the one drinking, the other eating at the foot of the stairs, but both ready to do their duty, because it seemed to me suitable and possible that the master of the house, who as I...