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He is a little fond of playing the magnifico abroad, of pulling out a long purse, flinging his money bravely about at boxing-matches, horse-races, cock-fights, and carrying a high head among "gentlemen of the fancy:" but immediately after one of these fits of extravagance he will be taken with violent qualms of economy; stop short at the most trivial expenditure; talk desperately of being ruined and brought upon the parish; and in such moods will not pay the smallest tradesman's bill without violent altercation.
What is your name?" "Rita," said the woman. "Well, Rita, I dare say you and I shall be great friends." "Friends! oh, señor is too much magnifico " "Oh, I ain't proud, my dear not a bit, not a mite. I've got plenty of money, Rita, and can help my friends; but I ain't proud, not me. And what may be your particular duties in this establishment?" "Señor?" "I say, what do you do here?
Grocyn and Linacre, as well as Reuchlin, testify to the wise generosity of the great Magnifico, and all three declare that to him, more than to any other man, the Renaissance owed not only its development, but even the character it assumed in Italy in the second last decade of the fifteenth century. The end came when he was literally in his prime.
His uncle, the sixth Duke of Devonshire, a benevolent magnifico, if ever there was one, treated him like a son, giving him the run of Devonshire House and Chiswick; while Lady Holland, the most imperious of social dames, let him make a second home of Holland House. "I dined with her whenever I liked. I had only to send word in the morning that I would do so.
"There's more news of the English Milor and his family," said the host, emphatically. "An English lord.-What English lord?" "Milor Popkin." "Lord Popkin? I never heard of such a title!" "O Sicuro a great nobleman that passed through here lately with his Milady and daughters a magnifico one of the grand councillors of London un almanno." "Almanno almanno? tut! he means alderman."
'Tis a stately recumbent figure, of wonderful anatomy, without any exaggeration of muscle, and, accordingly, his name is Twilight! Why Twilight should grieve at the tomb of Lorenzo, grandson of Lorenzo Magnifico, any more than the grandfather would have done, does not seem very clear, even to Twilight himself, who seems, after all, in a very crepuscular state upon the subject.
My suite of apartments were in a proud, melancholy palace on the grand canal, formerly the residence of a Magnifico, and sumptuous with the traces of decayed grandeur. My gondolier was one of the shrewdest of his class, active, merry, intelligent, and, like his brethren, secret as the grave; that is to say, secret to all the world except his master.
There unmistakably we are face to face with a political agitator. "God intends to punish Lorenzo Magnifico, yes, and his friends too"; and when, a little later, he was made prior of S. Marco, he refused to receive Lorenzo in the house his grandfather had built.
You are right. The stuff was in him, but the Fates were unkind. I stretch out my hand to the pauvre diable. 'I think one learns more from the mock magnifico than from anything else, observed his Grace. 'When the lion saw the donkey in his own royal skin, said Aunt Bel, 'add the rhyme at your discretion he was a wiser lion, that's all.
I then again enjoined the utmost secrecy upon him, saying that it was not only a case of "omne ignotum pro magnifico," but also that secrecy was the best possible advertisement. I knew that his copy would be extraordinarily attractive, and I wanted people at London dinner-parties and in club smoking-rooms to ask each other, "Have you guessed yet who the Cornhill diarist is?"
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