The Makers of Florence: Dante, Giotto, Savonarola, and Their CityMacmillan, 1877 - 395 pages |
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Page 24 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 257 - Where shall the traitor rest, He, the deceiver, Who could win maiden's breast, Ruin, and leave her? In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying; Eleu loro There shall he be lying.
Page 15 - Her dress, on that day, was of a most noble colour, a subdued and goodly crimson, girdled and adorned in such sort as best suited with her very tender age. At that moment, I say most truly that the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith; and in trembling it said these words : Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi...
Page 25 - ... would appear that this number was thus allied unto her for the purpose of signifying that, at her birth, all these nine heavens were at perfect unity with each other as to their influence. This is one reason that may be brought : but more narrowly considering, and according to the infallible truth, this number was her own self: that is to say, by similitude.
Page 225 - ... rapes, adulteries, robberies, their pride, idolatry, and fearful blasphemies: so that things have come to such a pass that no one can be found acting righteously. Many times a day have I repeated with tears the verse: Heu, fuge crudeles terras, fuge littus avarum!
Page 243 - And though many thousand people were thus collected together, no sound was to be heard, not even a 'hush,' until the arrival of the children, who sang hymns with so much sweetness that heaven seemed to have opened. Thus they waited three or four hours till the Padre entered the pulpit, and the attention of so great a mass of people, all with eyes and ears intent upon the preacher, was wonderful ; they listened so, that when the sermon reached its end it seemed to them that it had scarcely begun.
Page 381 - 1 sonno, e piu 1'esser di sasso, mentre che "1 danno e la vergogna dura; non veder, non sentir m'e gran ventura; pero non mi destar, deh, parla basso.
Page 25 - I study as much as I can, as she truly knows. So that if it shall be the pleasure of Him...
Page 86 - Ravennese citizens, he rendered up to his Creator his toilworn spirit, the which I doubt not was received into the arms of his most noble Beatrice, with whom, in the sight of him who is the supreme good, the miseries of this present life left behind, he now lives most joyously in that life the felicity of which expects no end.