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Page 254 - 1489, and all the people of her little principality, olive crowned and bearing olive branches in their hands, came out to meet their lady. Under a canopy of cloth of gold they led her to the piazza. of Borgo d' Asolo, where an address was presented to her. " Oh, happy land of Asolo,
Page 255 - She wielded her little sceptre for her people's good, and won their love by her gentleness and grace. Here, in the quiet of twenty years, she lived, surrounded by a phantom royalty; yet, unsubstantial as it might be, it was as real as any she had known in Cyprus. Here she and her court listened one and all to those grave
Page 292 - temuto che amato . . . vive con sempiterno sospetto." When Sagredo returned to Venice, his secretary, Francesco Giavarnia, was left behind in England, as Venetian resident, and continued to hold that post till the Restoration, sending despatches every week direct to Venice, detailing the close of the
Page 32 - iniquo tradimento Se posto in chomun per altrui spavento E per mostrar a tutti sempre seno. Time has come to cover this among other sore places. The column is gone; after many wanderings
Page 255 - the quiet of twenty years, she lived, surrounded by a phantom royalty; yet, unsubstantial as it might be, it was as real as any she had known in Cyprus. Here she and her court listened one and all to those grave ragionamenti on platonic love, with their weariful, never-ending age of gold; with their gods and goddesses and mortals made immortal;
Page 296 - every detail of etiquette observed towards them, and replied in kind in their treatment of foreign ministers in Venice. The Republic was punctilious abroad, and no less so at home. Every stage in the public entry, first audience, and
Page 273 - or kind of portable pulpit in which he was borne on the shoulders of the arsenal hands, and returned to the Porta della Carta. At the top of the Giants
Page 269 - alla scrittura, or minister for war; the savio cassier, or chancellor of the exchequer; the savio alle ordinanze, or minister for the native militia in the cities or the mainland; the savio ai da
Page 51 - Not after a like fashion, it is true ; for the people had entered their protest, had struck their blow, and had failed. It remained for the old conservative party to make their attempt against the revolution which had been effected. But they were not ready yet, and were by no means unwilling to wait. Time
Page 242 - XI., essendo nel letto, premeditando molte e diverse cose, alditi verso la piaza uno inusato son de campana . . . per la qual cossa chiamai suso el mio fameglio e disili chel se dovesse far a la fenestra e star attento se el sentiva remor alguno, sentando mi ulular e latrar assaissimi cani.
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| Title | Studies in the History of Venice, Volume 1 Studies in the History of Venice, Horatio Forbes Brown |
| Author | Horatio Forbes Brown |
| Publisher | E. P. Dutton, 1907 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Apr 14, 2006 |
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