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Updated: June 24, 2025
As he moved slowly forward and stood before this magnificent assembly with the same simple dignity that had characterized him among the friars of the Servi, after the splendors of the ducal costume, the scarlet, the ermine, the beretta, the gold-brocaded mantle, the plain folds of the violet robe of the Counsellor seemed almost austere.
The first of these three men, sitting at the foot of the bed, and half hidden, that he might conceal his tears, in the gold-brocaded curtains, was Ermolao Barbaro, author of the treatise 'On Celibacy', and of 'Studies in Pliny': the year before, when he was at Rome in the capacity of ambassador of the Florentine Republic, he had been appointed Patriarch of Aquileia by Innocent VIII.
The cramoisy velvets and yellow satin doublets of the court, the gold-brocaded mantles of priests and princes are often but vulgar drapery of little historic worth. Such costumes thrown around the swart figures of hard-working artisans, for literary and artistic purposes, have a real significance, and are worthy of a closer examination.
He proffered his own gold-brocaded seat, smilingly placing himself in a chair of simpler design. "'All this politeness is certainly going to cost me something! I thought in mounting astonishment. The prince's motive emerged after a few casual remarks. "'My city is filled with the rumor that you can fight wild tigers with nothing more than your naked hands. Is it a fact? "'It is quite true.
"Pardon, Your Eminence!" the priest whispered, as he made a genuflexion and went back to his place, reproaching himself for having interrupted the Cardinal's devotions. The familiar ceremony went on; and Montanelli sat erect and still, his glittering mitre and gold-brocaded vestments flashing back the sunlight, and the heavy folds of his white festival mantle sweeping down over the red carpet.
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