The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, 3. cilt

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J. M'Creery, 1806 - 565 sayfa

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Sayfa 335 - A blessing," says Sancho, '* on him who first '• invented sleep ; it wraps a man all round like a cloak." Thus Berni, almost a century before Cervantes, on the same subject : " Quella diceva ch' era la piu bella " Arte, il piu bel mestier che si facesse; " II letto er
Sayfa 365 - Charles, rising from his seat and laying his hand on the shoulder of the ambassador, told him with great kindness, that he had no cause to regret the loss of his country, having found such a patron as Francis I. adding, that to a virtuous man every place is his country.
Sayfa 357 - On the elevation of Leo X. and the appointment of his nephew Lorenzo to the government of Florence, Giovanni remained at that city in a respectable employment, and is supposed to have accompanied Lorenzo to Rome, when he went to assume the insignia of captain-general of the church. Soon after
Sayfa 365 - honourable Charles V. Alamanni gave a singular instance of his talents and promptitude. Having, in his oration before the emperor, frequently mentioned the Imperial Eagle, Charles, after having attentively listened till the close of the speech, turned towards the orator and repeated with a sarcastic emphasis, from one of the poems of Alamanni, " L
Sayfa 367 - which Alamanni undertook at the request of Francis I. a short time before the death of that monarch, as appears from the information of the author himself in his dedication to Henry II. in •which he has described the origin and laws of the British knights errant, or knights of the round Table,
Sayfa 210 - and others, had contributed to diffuse these doctrines among the learned and polite; but the great patron, and perhaps the most powerful advocate of this sect was Lorenzo de' Medici, the father of the pontiff, whose writings contain frequent allusions to the refined notions of the Platonists, and whose pieces on religious subjects, instead of conforming
Sayfa 298 - Ariosto. Whilst many of the most distinguished scholars of Italy, attracted by the generosity of the pontiff, had taken up their residence in Rome, the celebrated Ariosto, the chief favourite of the muses and the glory of his age. remained at Ferrara, attached to the court of the cardinal Ippolito d
Sayfa 353 - vi. dedicated upwards of twenty years, he proposed to exhibit to his countrymen a specimen of the true epic, as founded on the example of Homer and confirmed by the authority of Aristotle. The subject is the liberation of Italy (a) This poem, like the second edition of the
Sayfa 201 - upwards of ten editions were printed in the last thirty years of the fifteenth century. They were also published at Antwerp and Leipsick ; an evident proof in that early state of the art of printing, that the work had obtained great celebrity not only in Italy, but throughout the whole extent of Christendom.
Sayfa 285 - by almost all his contemporaries, have been confirmed by the best critics of succeeding times ; nor can it be denied, that by selecting as his models Boccaccio and Petrarca, and by combining their excellences with his own correct and elegant taste, he contributed in an eminent degree to

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