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At Milan new pleasures awaited Isabella. Theatrical representations in honour of Duke Ercole, were given by the Delle Torre family and other noble houses, and Isabella spent long days with her sister in the park and beautiful gardens of the Castello, among the roses and fountains which Lodovico loved.
One was the painting of the Last Supper on the walls of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and the other the making of a model of a great equestrian statue, a bronze horse with the figure of the Duke upon its back. 'Year after year Leonardo worked at that wonderful fresco of the Last Supper. Sometimes for weeks or months he never touched it, but he always returned to it again.
Well, we got a letter of recommendation to the abbot, and left our apartment, Via delle Belle Donne, a week before our three months were done, thoroughly burned out by the sun; set out at four in the morning, reached Pelago, and from thence travelled five miles along a 'via non rotabile' through the most romantic scenery.
Hour after hour that afternoon Recklow sat in his quiet little house in Delle poring over the duplicate papers. About five o'clock he called up Toul by telephone and got the proper department. "Yes," came the answer, "Captain Herts went to you this morning on a confidential matter.... No, we don't know when he will return to Toul."
Near the entrance is the inscribed lid of a sarcophagus upside down, used as a water-trough. The convent was fortified by the Spalatines in 1540, of which fortification the machicolated tower to the left of the church remains. The church is early Renaissance in appearance, and is dedicated to S. Maria delle Grazie.
Altogether, he puts the losses in life at above 1,000,000, or more than one-third of the population of Old Serbia. Come si calcola e a quanto ammonta la richezza d'Italia e delle altre principali nazioni, published in 1919.
But we didn't look out for them. We were prosaic and thought of nothing but the fish." "And is there really a house down there?" said Artois. "Yes," said Hermione. "It used to be a ruin, but now it's built up and occupied. Gaspare" she spoke to him as he was taking a dish from the table "who is it lives in the Casa delle Sirene now? You told me, but I've forgotten."
My Son, the Chamberlain, hath seen in the most revered chronicle of State of this kingdom, the Libro delle Rimembranze, the copy of a letter sent by King Janus to His Holiness, to accredit his Reverence the Archbishop of Nikosia, brother to this same Signor Jean Perez Fabrici the Consiglière, who spoke with us but now as Ambassador to His Holiness: and the manner of this letter leaveth no room for doubt that he wrote as a son of the Church, in all confidence of favor.
It was built in 1508, and looks on to a piece of the sixth-century wall of Ravenna. Not far away in the Via Girotto Guaccimanni near the Hotel Byron is the church of S. Maria delle Croci, founded in the tenth century, but entirely rebuilt in the sixteenth.
Prepared then by prayer and meditation, I made solemn and punctilious visits to what I must call the holy places of Aurelia's nation: the Madonna del Bordone, the Madonna delle Grazie, and the Madonna called of Provenzano. Before each of these ladies mournful, helpful, heaven-conversing deities I prayed devoutly, on my knees.
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