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"He is a banker, signor," replied Simon Turchi. "He is very rich, and his name is Lazarus Tucher. The gentleman before him is the head of the house of the Hochstetter. The gentlemen conversing with him belong to the distinguished commercial houses of the Gigli, the Spignoli, and the Gualterotti.
"Ad un monte di rose e gigli passa, Ch'ebbe gi
Of your two intimacies, I much prefer that of Donna Aurelia for you. There, now, is a girl naturaliter Christiana but that is characteristic of her nation: the elect city of Mary, indeed, as the pious Gigli has observed in a large volume. Come," he said suddenly, "come, Francis, I will take you to see Donna Aurelia this moment. There shall be no drawbacks to our mutual affection. What do you say?"
Fior. lib. i. p. 23, records a saying of Savonarola's, Gigli con gigli dover fiorire, as one of the causes of the obstinate French partiality of the Florentines in 1529. See Varchi, Segni, and Nardi, who agree on these points. That Savonarola believed in his own prophecies there is no doubt.
So much mystery did Erasmus use when his vital interests were at stake. The Bishop of Worcester, Silvestro Gigli, who was setting out to the Lateran Council, as the envoy of England, took upon himself to deliver the letter and to plead Erasmus's cause. Erasmus, having meanwhile at the end of August returned to the Netherlands, awaited the upshot of his kind offices in the greatest suspense.
"It has yet to be explained to me," said I, "under what obligation I am to be anywhere but where I please. That firstly. Secondly but of infinitely lesser moment Monna Giuliana has sent me for the manuscript of Messer Caro's Gigli d'Oro." I know not whether it was my cool, firm tones that quieted him. But quiet he became.
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