biaus

Updated: May 1, 2025

Et de les cele Yglise est li paleis de Monseignor li Dus, grant e biaus a mervoilles. For 'tis the greatest and noblest city, and the finest for merchandise, that the whole world containeth. Let us go back in mind as would that we could go back in body to the year 1268. It is a year which makes no great stir in the history books, but it will serve us well. For only consider her position.

Eileen Edna Power - Medieval People

It is of the water, watery, Canale's chronicle, like Ariel's dirge; he has indeed, 'that intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates. Here is nothing indeed, of 'the surge and thunder of the Odyssey', but the lovely words sparkle like the sun on the waters of the Mediterranean, and like a refrain, singing itself in and out of the narrative, the phrase recurs, 'Li tens estoit clers et biaus ... et lors quant il furent en mer, li mariniers drecerent les voiles au vent, et lesserent core a ploine voiles les mes parmi la mer a la force dou vent'; for so much of the history of Venice was enacted upon deck.

Eileen Edna Power - Medieval People