Florentine History: From the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Volume 1

Front Cover
E. Moxon, 1846
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 364 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 457 - Commedia, where, in polished verse and with great and subtile arguments, moral, natural, astrological, philosophical, and theological, with new and beautiful figures, similes, and poetical graces, he composed and treated in a hundred chapters or cantos of the existence of hell, purgatory, and paradise ; so loftily as may be said of it, that whoever is of subtile intellect may by his said treatise perceive and understand. He was well pleased in this poem to blame and cry out, in the manner of poets,...
Page 457 - ... governors of our city, and of that party although a Guelf ; and therefore without any other crime was with the said White party expelled and banished from Florence ; and he went to the University of Bologna, and into many parts of the world. This was a great and learned person in almost every science, although a layman ; he was a consummate poet and philosopher and rhetorician ; as perfect in prose and verse as he was in public speaking a most noble orator ; in rhyming excellent, with the most...
Page 130 - I>efore the discussions of past injuries are fairly begun fresh troubles arise; but too frequently new injuries are added to the old, to be discussed together with the existing government after it has proved its ability to sustain the assaults made upon it, or with its successor if overthrown.
Page 130 - Unfortunately, many of the nations of this hemisphere are still selftormented by domestic dissensions: revolution succeeds revolution ; injuries are committed upon foreigners engaged in lawful pursuits; much time elapses before a Government sufficiently stable is erected to justify expectation of redress. Ministers are sent and received, and, before the discussions of past injuries are fairly begun, fresh troubles arise; but too frequently new injuries are added to the old, to be discussed together...
Page 90 - ... disposed by an act of gift to Gregory the Seventh, without, however, any immediate royal power over the cities and other possessions thus given, as her will expresses it, ' for the good of her soul, and the souls of her parents.' "Whatever may now be thought of her chivalrous support, her bold defence, and her deep devotion to the Church, it was in perfect harmony with the spirit of that age, and has formed one of her chief merits with many even in the present. Her unflinching adherence to the...
Page 458 - This Dante, from his knowledge, was somewhat presumptuous, harsh, and disdainful, like an ungracious philosopher ; he scarcely deigned to converse with laymen ; but for his other virtues,* science, and worth as a citizen, it seems but reasonable to give him perpetual remembrance in this our chronicle...
Page 377 - Tempo vegg'io, non molto dopo ancoi, che tragge un altro Carlo fuor di Francia, per far conoscer meglio e sé e
Page 456 - In the month of July, 1321, died the Poet Dante Alighieri of Florence, in the city of Ravenna in Romagna, after his return from an embassy to Venice for the Lords of Polenta with •whom he resided ; and in Ravenna before the door of the principal church he was interred with high honor, in the habit of a poet and great philosopher.
Page 456 - ... in the habit of a poet and great philosopher. He died in banishment from the community of Florence, at the age of about fiftysix. This Dante was an honorable and ancient citizen of Porta San Piero at Florence, and our neighbor ; and his exile from Florence was on the occasion of Charles of Valois, of the house of France, coming to Florence in 1301, and the expulsion of the White party, as has already in its place been mentioned.

Bibliographic information