United States or Palestine ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
She could and would show this, for, like an illumination, words which she had heard the day before in the Golden Cross had flashed into her memory. Master Wenzel Jamnitzer, the famous Nuremberg goldsmith, had addressed them to her in the imperial apartments, where he had listened to her singing the day before.
Thereupon the confessor himself had ascertained from the marquise and the goldsmith Jamnitzer that Barbara had told him the whole truth. So in his eyes, and probably in those of a higher power, this apparently ignoble act would redound no little to the credit of the girl's heart. Charles listened to this explanation with a silent shrug of the shoulders.
This induced him to reject as impossible the suspicion that she could have stooped to anything so unworthy. Still, it was not easily banished. A long series of the sorest disappointments had rendered him distrustful, and he remembered having asked her several times for the star in vain. Perhaps it had been stolen from her, and Jamnitzer had obtained it from the thief himself or from the receiver.
Jamnitzer, the Nuremberg goldsmith, had intrusted a casket of jewels to Adrian to keep during his absence. They were intended for the diadems which the Emperor was to give his two nieces for bridal presents. The principal gems among them were two rubies and a diamond. On the gold of the old-fashioned setting were a P and an l, the initial letters of his motto "Plus ultra."
He had come to consult with the Emperor Charles about the diadems which he wished to give his two nieces, the daughters of Ferdinand, King of the Romans, who were to be married in July in Ratisbon. Their manufacture had been intrusted to Master Jamnitzer, and after the concert the Nuremberg artist had thanked Barbara for the pleasure which he owed her.
Thereupon the confessor himself had ascertained from the marquise and the goldsmith Jamnitzer that Barbara had told him the whole truth. So in his eyes, and probably in those of a higher power, this apparently ignoble act would redound no little to the credit of the girl's heart. Charles listened to this explanation with a silent shrug of the shoulders.
She could and would show this, for, like an illumination, words which she had heard the day before in the Golden Cross had flashed into her memory. Master Wenzel Jamnitzer, the famous Nuremberg goldsmith, had addressed them to her in the imperial apartments, where he had listened to her singing the day before.
The high art which he brought to bear on design applied to jewellery was followed by other artist-workmen, such as Stephanus of Paris, and Jamnitzer of Nuremberg. The metal-workers of the latter city, and of Augsburg, had a universal reputation at the close of the sixteenth century for their jewellery and plate, particularly the latter.
The next morning Master Jamnitzer called the valuable star his own, and pledged himself to keep the matter secret, and to obtain from the Fuggers a bill of exchange upon Paris for ten thousand lire. The honest man sent her through the Haller banking house a thousand ducats, that he might not be open to the reproach of having defrauded her.
This induced him to reject as impossible the suspicion that she could have stooped to anything so unworthy. Still, it was not easily banished. A long series of the sorest disappointments had rendered him distrustful, and he remembered having asked her several times for the star in vain. Perhaps it had been stolen from her, and Jamnitzer had obtained it from the thief himself or from the receiver.
Word Of The Day