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But Savonarola treated the invitation to call with disdain, and turned the messengers of Lorenzo away with scant courtesy.
'Who knows how your son Jeronymo may be situated? Let him now hear the voice which he heard the last. Desire your son Lorenzo to call him. "'What means he? whispered the company to one another. Lorenzo changed color. I will not deny that my own hair began to stand on end. "In the meantime the monk approached a sideboard; he took a glass of wine and carried to his lips.
He shut himself up in the barn, so that he might cry out with Shylock: "Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" He repeated, too, with Lorenzo: "Sit, Jessica.
"But say, Baptiste, mon cher, who is this Corsican of whom you were speaking?" "He is called Count Lorenzo Paoli," responded Baptiste. "He has a fine place away yonder among the hills, which, it is said, would make those rich who could have the plundering of it.
Here was a new field for Michelangelo. Without needing a lesson he began to copy the statues in terra-cotta, and so clever was his work that Lorenzo was delighted with it. 'See, now, what thou canst do with marble, he said. 'Terra-cotta is but poor stuff to work in.
The comparison of the Gypsy language in this book with a dialect of the Hindostanee is interesting and useful, and the accounts of Gypsy habits and usages are novel and curious; and otherwise the work is a mass of rather entertaining rubbish. Eros. A Series of connected Poems. By LORENZO SOMERVILLE, London: Trübner & Co. Patriotic Poems.
If they sought for any leading principle, it must have been a kind of superficial rationalism a careless inference from the many and contradictory opinions of antiquity with which they busied themselves, and from the discredit into which the Church and her doctrines had fallen This was the sort of reasoning which was near bringing Galeotto Martio to the stake, had not his former pupil, Pope Sixtus IV, perhaps at the request of Lorenzo de' Medici, saved him from the hands of the Inquisition.
We were to get to work this morning, as early as might be: you have probably allowed half an hour for Santa Maria Novella; half an hour for San Lorenzo; an hour for the museum of sculpture at the Bargello; an hour for shopping; and then it will be lunch time, and you mustn't be late, because you are to leave by the afternoon train, and must positively be in Rome to-morrow morning.
But perhaps the best thing of all that can be said about it is, that, with all this worship of antiquity, Italian poetry found here a sacred refuge, and that of all the rays of light which streamed from the circle of which Lorenzo was the centre, none was more powerful than this.
Far away in Florence, one artist, who had lived in close intimacy with the Moro for many a long year, who had discussed a hundred problems and planned all manner of mighty works with him, heard the news with a pang of regret. Leonardo had been in Venice with Lorenzo da Pavia, the great organ-master, when the wonderful tidings of the duke's return had come.
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