 Melancholy as the city looks now, every lover of Italian poetry must view with affection the retreat of an Ariosto, a Tasso, a Guarini. Such is the ascent of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the midst of this Boeotia....  Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy - Page 4721866 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...sixteenth century, a transitory glory, such as rarely irradiates the palaces of dukes or princes. ' The ' little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to...for pre-eminence only in ' literature and elegance.' Such is the remark of the accomplished Forsyth, in whose eyes the melancholy city derived its chief... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - 616 pages
...is the ascendant of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the centre of this Boeotia. The little courts of Ferrara and...pre-eminence only in literature and elegance*." The prison in which Tasso was immured forms a part of the hospital of St. Anna. An inscription over the... | |
 | George William David Evans - 1835 - 622 pages
...of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the centre of this Bosotia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to...pre-eminence only in literature and elegance*." The prison in which Tasso was immured forms a part of the hospital of St. Anna. An inscription over the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 pages
...of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the midst of this Boaotia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to...pre-eminence only in literature and elegance." The School of Ferrara, founded and patronised by the D'Este family, deserves especial noticein connectionwith... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 362 pages
...of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the midst of this Bœotia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to...pre-eminence only in literature and elegance." The School of Ferrara, founded and patronised by the D'Este family, deserves especial notice in connection... | |
 | 1857 - 376 pages
...of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the midst of this Bœotia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to...founded and patronised by the Este family, deserves especial notice in connection with this tribute to the intellectual history of the city. It is observed... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1857 - 416 pages
...of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens in the midst of this Bo?otia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to emulate those of AlexanThe population is collected together dria and Pergamos, contending fo eminence only in literature... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 556 pages
...united to the kingdom of Sardinia. "Melancholy as the city looks now, every lover of Italian poetry must view with affection the retreat of an Ariosto,...for pre-eminence only in literature and elegance," — Fartyth, " Ferrara ! in thy wide and grass-grown streets, Whose symmetry was not for solitude,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 560 pages
...of wealth over genius, that one or two princes could create an Athens m the midst of this Bœotia. The little courts of Ferrara and Urbino seemed to...for pre-eminence only in literature and elegance." — Forsyth. " Ferrara ! in thy wide and grass-grown streets, Whose symmetry was not for solitude,... | |
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