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Astorre Gianni and Rinaldo degli Albizzi were appointed commissaries, and Niccolo Fortebraccio, on agreeing to give up to the Florentines the places he had taken, was engaged to conduct the enterprise as their captain.
When they came thither, the lady said to Gianni, 'Do thou spit, whenas I shall bid thee. And he answered, 'Good. Then she began the conjuration and said, 'Phantom, phantom that goest by night, with tail upright thou cam'st to us; now get thee gone with tail upright.
"Away, proud man away!" said Adrian, impatiently waving his hand, "thou shouldst protect the lives of Romans, and oh, Gianni! Pietro! could not birth, renown, and thy green years, poor boy could not these save ye?" "Pardon him, my friends," said the Tribune to the crowd, "his grief is natural, and he knows not all their guilt. Back, I pray ye leave him to our ministering."
The youth, raising his eyes and recognizing the admiral, answered, 'My lord, I was indeed he of whom you ask; but I am about to be no more. The admiral then asked him what had brought him to that pass, and he answered, 'Love and the king's anger. The admiral caused him tell his story more at large and having heard everything from him as it had happened, was about to depart, when Gianni called him back and said to him, 'For God's sake, my lord, an it may be, get me one favour of him who maketh me to abide thus. 'What is that? asked Ruggieri; and Gianni said, 'I see I must die, and that speedily, and I ask, therefore, by way of favour, as I am bound with my back to this damsel, whom I have loved more than my life, even as she hath loved me, and she with her back to me, that we may be turned about with our faces one to the other, so that, dying, I may look upon her face and get me gone, comforted. 'With all my heart, answered Ruggieri, laughing; 'I will do on such wise that thou shalt yet see her till thou grow weary of her sight.
From her eyes dart spirits who strike awe into the heart; from her lips come words which make men sigh; on her passage the poet casts down his eyes; notions, all these, with which we are familiar from the "Vita Nuova;" but which belong to Cavalcanti, Lapo Gianni, nay, even to Guinicelli, quite as much as to Dante.
But once, amongst other times, it chanced that, Federigo being one night to sup with Mistress Tessa and she having let cook two fat capons, Gianni, who was not expected there that night, came thither very late, whereat the lady was much chagrined and having supped with her husband on a piece of salt pork, which she had let boil apart, caused the maid wrap the two boiled capons in a white napkin and carry them, together with good store of new-laid eggs and a flask of good wine, into a garden she had, whither she could go, without passing through the house, and where she was wont to sup whiles with her lover, bidding her lay them at the foot of a peach-tree that grew beside a lawn there.
It bears, he saith, the most intimate connexion with the welfare and state of Rome." "Very entertaining, I dare to say, to professors and bookmen. Pardon me, kinsman; I forgot your taste for these things; and my son, Gianni, too, shares your fantasy. Well, well! it is innocent enough! Go the man talks well." "Will you not attend, too?"
Ischia is an island very near Naples, and therein, among others, was once a very fair and sprightly damsel, by name Restituta, who was the daughter of a gentleman of the island called Marino Bolgaro and whom a youth named Gianni, a native of a little island near Ischia, called Procida, loved more than his life, as she on like wise loved him.
But such was her trouble and annoy that she remembered not to bid the maid wait till Federigo should come and tell him that Gianni was there and that he should take the viands from the garden; wherefore, she and Gianni betaking themselves to bed and the maid likewise, it was not long before Federigo came to the door and knocked softly once.
EARLY ITALIAN POETRY AND PROSE. The French element became gradually lessened, and towards the close of the thirteenth century there arose the Tuscan school of lyric poetry, the true beginning of Italian art, of which Lapo Gianni, Guido Cavalcanti, Cino da Pistoia, and Dante Alighieri were the masters. It is mainly inspired by love, and takes a popular courtly or scholastic form.
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