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He only spread out his palms and shrugged his shoulders, putting his head on one side, as though to say he could not help it. "Is it perhaps my fault that you are a little donkey?" I asked; for you may imagine whether I was angry or not. "Certainly not, Sor Cornelio," he said. "It is entirely my own doing; but I do not see that I am a donkey." "Blood of Bacchus!" I ejaculated, holding up my hands.
Cornelio was captured by some Moors of Tripoli, and sold by them to a Turk who brought him to this island, whither he came to trade, for he is a merchant of Rhodes, and so highly satisfied was he with Cornelio, and such was the confidence he reposed in his truth and integrity, that he entrusted him with his whole property."
I unsay, then, what I have said, and I give Cornelio nothing, for I cannot; only I confirm the transfer of my property made to Leonisa, without desiring any other recompense than that she will believe in the sincerity of my honourable sentiments towards her, and be assured that they never had an aim unbecoming her incomparable virtue, her worth, and her infinite beauty."
"But the angels neither marry nor are given in marriage," I objected, arguing the point to pass the time. "What do you make of it, then, Messer Cornelio?" he asked, with a smile. "Why, as a heretic she ought to burn, and as an angel she ought not to marry." "It is better to marry than to burn," retorted Nino, triumphantly. "Diavolo! Have you had St. Paul for a tutor?"
It was in the month of March 1555 that Titian married his only daughter Lavinia to Cornelio Sarcinelli of Serravalle, thus leaving the pleasant home at Biri Grande without a mistress; for his sister Orsa had been dead since 1549.
We cannot even discover to what colleges they belonged. In the last half of the fifteenth century there had been a beginning of Greek in Oxford. Thomas Chandler, Warden of New College, 1454-75, had some knowledge of it; and under his auspices an Italian adventurer of no merit, Cornelio Vitelli, came and taught here for a short time.
The weather is wonderfully fine, and I am sure you owe it to the world to show the roses which rest has given you." Hedwig blushed softly, and I rose and went away, conceiving that I had kept watch long enough. But Nino called after me, as he moved the bench from the door. "Messer Cornelio, will you not come with us? Surely you need a walk very much, and we can ill spare your company.
Ricardo closed his speech with these words, and Leonisa thus replied, "If you imagine, Ricardo, that I bestowed any favour on Cornelio during the time when you were enamoured of me and jealous, think that it was in all honour, as being done by the express desire of my parents, who wished to have him for their son-in-law.
Go, play among thy mother's maids; they will help thee to dress thy locks and take care of those dainty hands that are fitter to wind silk than to handle a sword. "In spite of all these taunts Cornelio never stirred from his seat, but remained perfectly still, staring at me as if he was bewitched.
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