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No more need of high heels!" said Mrs Quantock. "And I've got something else to tell you. Lucia may hear that. Ah, dear Lucia, what a wonderful Perdita-blossom!" "Is it not?" said Lucia, blowing kisses to Georgie, and giving them to Daisy. "That shows spring is here. Primavera! And Peppino's piccolo libro comes out today.
"With Servia?" "Is that all?" said the good woman, as if it were a question of something in the moon. Maxime however persisted, doctus cum libro, arguing that from one thing to another, this shock no matter how distant, might bring about a general explosion; but Clerambault, who was beginning to come out of his pleasant trance, smiled calmly, and said that nothing would happen.
In Dogian days there was a Libro d'Oro in which the First Families of Venice were inscribed in illuminated script. At the opera that night the aristocrats of the New World were in full force. Among them were men who could not alone have wedded the Adriatic but have dowered her as well. Venice in her greatest splendor had never dreamed such wealth as theirs.
The finding of his name among the birth records of the nobles of Venice, the registration witnessed by the three solemn Avvogadori, those officers of the law whose rulings in their department were inexorable, the act of confirmation before the Imperial Senate, whither, in grave procession, they immediately fared, preceded by the sacred "Libro d'Oro," upon which the oath of allegiance was sworn with bended knee the ceremony was soon over, and Marcantonio stood enrolled among the ruling body of the great Republic.
"She makes it noble!" cried the young fellow, flushing hotly, "for she is like her face." "Ay, for me and thee she is noble," said the Veronese compassionately, for he loved the boy. "But for the noble Senator, thy father of the Council of the Ten he will not find this maiden's name in the 'Libro d'Oro. I am sorry for thee." "Master!" cried Marcantonio imploringly, "art thou with me?"
It is much to be regretted that the three manuscript pamphlets by Fray Roque Figueredo, bearing the titles Relacion del Viage al Nuevo México, Libro de las Fundaciones del Nuevo Mexico, and Vidas de los Varones Ilustres, etc., appear to be lost. Their author was first in New Mexico while Oñate governed that province, and his writings were at the great convent of Mexico.
In all the folly about Charron with which he tormented me in the three days we were together, I found by bitter experience the truth of the Italian proverb: 'Guardati da colui che non ha letto che un libro solo'. By reading the work of the misguided priest he had become an Atheist, and of this he made his boast all the day long.
They were vocal soloists and often improvisatori, clearly differentiated from the cantori a libro, who were "singers by book and note" and who sang the polyphonic art music of the time. It is pretty well established that the songs of Dante were everywhere known and sung. We have reason to believe that many of those of Boccaccio were also familiar to the people.
His chief prose works in Castilian include the Exposicion del libro de Job, a commentary dedicated to Madre Ana de Jesús, but not published till near the end of the eighteenth century . The provenance of this work calls for no explanation.
REPASTINATIONES: 'repeated hoeings'. The pastinum was a kind of pitchfork, used for turning over the ground round about the vines, particularly when the young plants were being put in. MULTO TERRA FECUNDIOR: see n. on 3 parum ... auctoritatis. IN EO LIBRO: see Introd.
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