History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Volume 7, Part 1G. Bell & sons, 1900 - Rome (Italy) |
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Page 248 - Leonora of magnificent procession to S. Peter's, where the Pope read mass. At noon the Cardinal caused a representation of the history of Susanna to be given by Florentine players; on Monday he held the public banquet which excited universal surprise by its unparalleled extravagance. The servants clad in silk waited with exemplary skill, while the seneschal four times changed his costly vestments. Even Vitellius would have lauded the table of the monk Riario, on which every conceivable product was...
Page 249 - Before them were carried wild boars, roasted whole in their entire hides, bucks, goats, hares, rabbits, fish silvered over, peacocks with their feathers, pheasants, storks, cranes and stags; a bear in its skin, holding in its mouth a stick; countless were the tarts, jellies, candied fruits and sweetmeats. An artificial mountain was carried into the room, out of which stepped a liveryman with gestures of surprise at finding himself in the midst of such a gorgeous banquet; he repeated some verses and...
Page 70 - Af1er tedious disputes the Byzantine theologians, in fear not of S. Peter but of Mohammed, laid down those arms which Photius and his successors had borne for more than five hundred years. On June 3 they acknowledged that the Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and the Son, that the body of Christ was transmuted into leavened as well as unleavened bread, that the souls of believers were cleansed in purgatory, while those of impenitent sinners went straight to hell. If a liberal-minded philosopher...
Page 160 - Pii //. per Joh. Campanum, Murat., iii. ii. 967. Concerning the youth of Aeneas, see the letter of Gregor. Lollio in Ep. Card. Papiensis, n. 47. The best authorities on the life of Piccolomini are the letters and commentaries of Pius II. VOL. VII. L poet, and after many dangers at sea, crossed the St Gothard to Basle, henceforward for twenty-two years to lead a restless and wandering life in Germany.1 This country, whose cities and vigorous but rude sons still seemed utterly barbarous in the eyes...
Page 156 - Perciò che poi che le Spagne a servire il loro pontefice a Roma i loro popoli mandati aveano, e Valenza il colle Vaticano occupato avea, a' nostri uomini e alle nostre donne oggimai altre voci, altri accenti avere in bocca non piaceva, che spagniuoli.
Page 207 - Peter, in which he expressed his conviction that the Prince of the Apostles would avenge the outrages his brother had received from the Turks, and that Andrew as a new protector of Rome would unite the kings in a crusade.