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Rome followed with her square campaniles, whose arcaded chambers looked down on a hundred cloisters. Then there were La Ghirlandina at Modena, Il Torazzo at Cremona, Torre della Mangia at Siena, the Garisenda at Bologna, the Leaning Tower at Pisa.
And the old families are very proud still, in these democratic days. They have a great opinion of themselves, I am told." "Well," said Mr. French. "Perhaps you know the rhyme: "'Veneziano gran' Signore Padovano buon' dotore. Vicenzese mangia il gatto Veronese tutto matto " "How very amusing!" said Miss Wade. "Veneziana gran' Signore. The Venetian is a great gentleman!
Paulus Venetus, who dwelt many years in Cathay, affirmed that he had sailed 1,500 miles upon the coast of Mangia and Anian, towards the north-east, always finding the seas open before him, not only as far as he went, but also as far as he could discern.
That is the Palazzo Publico, the shrine of Aristotle's Politics and the Miracles of the Virgin. What is that long spear which seems to shake as it glances skywards? It isn't a spear; it's the Torre del Mangia the loveliest tower in Tuscany, the filia pulchrior of a beautiful mother, the Torre della Vacca of Florence.
Do you not feel the heaviness of the air, and the heat, Dio mio!" The deep bell of the Mangia tower tolled, and then the signal was given, un colpo di mortaletto, and the pageant began.
In the island of Mangia the parents at the birth of the child arranged between themselves whether it should be dedicated to the father’s god or to the mother’s. The dedication took place forthwith, and finally determined which parent had the ownership of the child.
Twenty persons a year, they tell me, are devoured by its angry waters: mangia venti cristiani all' anno! This is as bad as the Amendolea near Reggio. But none of its victims have attained the celebrity of Alexander of Molossus, King of Epirus, who perished under the walls of Pandosia in 326 B.C. during an excursion against the Lucanians.
Fezzen è dominata da un signore che è come primario del popolo, il quale tutta la rendita del paese dispensa nel comun beneficio, pagando certo tributo a' vicini Arabi. Similmente in cotal paese è molta penuria di pane e di carne; e si mangia carne di camello, la quale è tuttavia carissima."
Also, if that America were not an island, but a part of the continent adjoining to Asia, either the people which inhabit Mangia, Anian, and Quinzay, etc., being borderers upon it, would before this time have made some road into it, hoping to have found some like commodities to their own.
Also Mangia, Quinzai, and the Moluccas, are nearer unto us by the north-west than by the north-east more than two-fifths, which is almost by the half.
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