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"No, my Romola, we will work no more to-night. Tito, come and sit by me here." Tito moved from the reading-desk, and seated himself on the other side of Bardo, close to his left elbow. "Come nearer to me, figliuola mia," said Bardo again, after a moment's pause.
"I have been here fourteen years next Easter, and I have never once been in Ravenna in all that time, nor, indeed, further away from this church than just a stroll within the edge of the Pineta." "That is the Pineta we see from this window, of course, Padre mio. What a lovely view of it! And how beautiful it is! Where does that road go to, Padre? To Venice?" "No, figliuola mia.
E cosí stando, essendo Rustico, piú che mai, nel suo disidero acceso, per lo vederla cosí bella, venue la resurrezion della carne; la quale riguardando Alibech, e maravigliatasti, disse: Rustico, quella che cosa è, che io ti veggio, che cosí si pigne in fuori, e non l' ho io? O figliuola mia, disse Rustico, questo è il diavolo, di che io t'ho parlato, e vedi tu ora: egli mi d
Her quickness in learning, her marvellous memory, and application to her studies were the theme of every one at court. She was the apple of her father's eye, her mother's most sweet and cherished companion "la mia carissima e dolce figliuola sopra altre."
And sometimes Life is like the importunate widow and goes on asking until one gives what one should not." She helped her to find a room, and eked out the furniture from her own little store. "Another saucepan, and a kettle, and a blanket. And if lessons fail you must come to us, figliuola mia. My brother's house is large."
The earliest secular play in Italian is, then, nothing but a sacra rappresentazione on a pagan theme, a fact which was probably clearly recognized when, in the early editions from 1494 onwards, the piece was described as the 'festa di Orpheo . It was written in 1471, when Poliziano was about seventeen, and we learn from the author's epistle prefixed to the printed edition that ît was composed in the short space of two days for representation before Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga at Mantua. From the same epistle we learn that the author desired, or at least assumed the attitude of desiring, that his composition should share the fate of the ill-fashioned Lacedaemonian children; 'Cognoscendo questa mia figliuola essere di qualit
Moreover, he had not much stomach for driving a bargain with the baronet; so in the end Sir George too was set aside. There remained only the Buona Figliuola the girl herself. 'I might pay my court to her, the tutor thought, 'but she would have a spite against me for last night's work, and I doubt I could not do much.
I paid our rent a few days ago three months in advance." "I will go to the house-agent in the Piazza di Spagna to-morrow. It should not be difficult to get a tenant, and at the end of the time the furniture could be warehoused, or you could sell it." Ser Giulia hesitated. "What would you do then, figliuola mia?" "Oh, I can take care of myself," the girl said easily.
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