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"Thy penitence and regrets, Jacopo, may lead thee yet nearer to virtue," he said, "than mere abandonment of the Senate's service. Seek out some godly priest, and ease thy soul by confession and prayer." The Bravo trembled in every limb, and his eye turned wistfully to the countenance of the other. "Speak, Jacopo; even I will hear thee, if thou would'st remove the mountain from thy breast."
Jacopo Avanzi, a painter of Bologna, shared the work of this hall with Aldigieri, and below the aforesaid pictures he painted two most beautiful Triumphs, likewise in fresco, with so much art and so good a manner, that Girolamo Campagnola declares that Mantegna used to praise them as pictures of the rarest merit.
"Do you wish to speak to us?" asked Morrel. "I have a letter to give you from the count." "From the count!" murmured the two young people. "Yes; read it." Morrel opened the letter, and read: "My Dear Maximilian, "There is a felucca for you at anchor. Jacopo will carry you to Leghorn, where Monsieur Noirtier awaits his granddaughter, whom he wishes to bless before you lead her to the altar.
In like manner Granacci was employed in the sumptuous and magnificent preparations that were made in the year 1513 for the entry of Pope Leo X, one of the Medici, by Jacopo Nardi, a man of great learning and most beautiful intellect, who, having been commanded by the Tribunal of Eight to prepare a splendid masquerade, executed a representation of the Triumph of Camillus.
During the Milano-Venetian war of 1451 and 1452, between Francesco Sforza and Jacopo Piccinino, the headquarters of the latter were attended by the scholar Gian Antonio Porcellio dei Pandoni, commissioned by Alfonso of Naples to write a report of the campaign.
Jacopo, then, as it has been said, having brought this water below the walls, made the fountain which was then called the Fonte Guizianelli, and which is now named, by the corruption of the word, the Fonte Viniziana; this work endured from that time, which was the year 1354, up to the year 1527, and no more, for the reason that the plague of that year, the war that came afterwards, the fact that many intercepted the water at their own convenience for the use of their gardens, and still more the fact that Jacopo did not sink it, brought it about that to-day it is not, as it should be, standing.
In the Venice Academy, also by Gentile Bellini, who introduces her and her attendant ladies kneeling in the foreground, to the left, in his well-known "Miracle of the True Cross," dated 1500. In the Berlin Gallery, by Jacopo de' Barbari, where she appears kneeling in a composition of the "Madonna and Child and Saints." Pourtalès Collection, Berlin
Then the former simply ejaculated, with a strong respiration "Jacopo!" His companion raised three of his fingers, with an occult meaning, towards the palace of the doges. "Do they let him take the air, even in San Marco?" he asked, in unfeigned surprise. "It is not easy, caro amico, to make water run up stream, or to stop the downward current.
They opened the door of the cabin, and uttered an exclamation of surprise as they saw the steward quietly asleep in his bunk. “Why, Jacopo, you lazy rascal,” the captain shouted, “I have just been mourning for you, and here you are, sleeping as quietly as if you were safe in port.”
The gendarmerie were busy on the road: a mounted officer had dashed up to the inn an hour later, and had followed them: it was the talk of the village. 'Padrone, you dismiss me now, said Jacopo. 'I pay you, but don't dismiss you, said Angelo, and handed him a bank-note. 'I stick to you, padrone, till you do dismiss me, Jacopo sighed.
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