Venetian StudiesK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 433 pagini |
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Pagina 91
... Visconti , the Scala family , or the Carraresi live not in ballads but in chronicles , our main fountain - heads for picturesque Italian history generally . Yet it would be a mistake to suppose that these chronicles are devoid of ...
... Visconti , the Scala family , or the Carraresi live not in ballads but in chronicles , our main fountain - heads for picturesque Italian history generally . Yet it would be a mistake to suppose that these chronicles are devoid of ...
Pagina 92
... Visconti , the Gonzaghi , the Estensi , the Polentani , the Rossi , the Scaligeri , and with the last of these they fell , Venice alone among all these prince- lings pursued a steady policy . In common with her neighbours she had passed ...
... Visconti , the Gonzaghi , the Estensi , the Polentani , the Rossi , the Scaligeri , and with the last of these they fell , Venice alone among all these prince- lings pursued a steady policy . In common with her neighbours she had passed ...
Pagina 93
... Visconti . But nothing could save these men from the doom they dreaded ; they were condemned to plagiarism , to repetition and sameness . Each draught of pleasure or of power only intensified the thirst that mocked their impotence to ...
... Visconti . But nothing could save these men from the doom they dreaded ; they were condemned to plagiarism , to repetition and sameness . Each draught of pleasure or of power only intensified the thirst that mocked their impotence to ...
Pagina 94
... Visconti's dams and embank- ments to perdition . Again , Can Signorio della Scala resolved to murder his brother - that was common enough ; but coming from his mistress , there was the new touch . The plan succeeded , and was soon after ...
... Visconti's dams and embank- ments to perdition . Again , Can Signorio della Scala resolved to murder his brother - that was common enough ; but coming from his mistress , there was the new touch . The plan succeeded , and was soon after ...
Pagina 98
... Visconti was never tired of applying , was— " Attack others before they attack you . Choose a weak moment in your neighbour , and strike ; if not , he will infallibly turn on you in your hour of distress . " The fatal necessity to ...
... Visconti was never tired of applying , was— " Attack others before they attack you . Choose a weak moment in your neighbour , and strike ; if not , he will infallibly turn on you in your hour of distress . " The fatal necessity to ...
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