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Updated: July 17, 2025
At the burst of a strain of martial music from the gallery the maskers drew their swords on all sides, and advanced against each other in the measured steps of a sort of Pyrrhic or military dance, clashing their swords against their adversaries' shields, and clattering them against their blades as they passed each other in the progress of the dance.
A tree appeared upon whose top was a Genius who recited verses; these over, he dropped down the ends of nine silk ribbons which were taken by nine maskers who danced a ballet about the tree. This moresca was loudly applauded.
They walked rapidly, almost ran, through the streets. They spoke to no one, and did nothing except to keep up a loud and constant trilling of the most ridiculous kind. Packs of youngsters chased behind and crowded upon them; they also pelted them with stones, and the head of one of the maskers was bleeding quite profusely, but he still kept up his headlong run and trilling.
She was a sister of Lorenz Pasch. <b>PASCOLI, LUIGIA.</b> This Venetian painter has exhibited in various Italian cities since 1870, when she sent a "Magdalen" to Parma. "First Love" appeared at Naples in 1877, and "The Maskers" pastel at Venice in 1881. A "Girl with a Cat," a "Roman Girl," and a "Seller of Eggs" the latter in Venetian costume are works of true value. Her copies of Titian's "St.
In a Carnival frolic, he appeared in the streets with two companions in the character of bipeds with feathers, a scanty addition to Plato's definition of man. This airy costume was too much for French modesty, proverbially shrinking and sensitive. The mob hooted and gave chase. The maskers fled from the town and hid themselves in a marsh to evade pursuit.
They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of vehicles. "Why?" asked M. Gillenormand "Because of the maskers." "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way.
In fact, as one of the maskers passed Rienzi, he whispered, "Beware, a Colonna is among the masks! beneath the reveller's domino has often lurked the assassin's dagger. Yonder stands your foe mark him!" These words were the first sharp and thrilling intimation of the perils into which he had rushed, that the Tribune-Senator had received since his return.
"I'm afraid you'll have to give yourself limitations," said Colville, as one of the maskers threw his arm round the mock-nun's neck. But the old man did not see this, and Colville did not feel it necessary to explain himself. The maskers had passed out of the piazza, now, and "Have you seen our friends at Palazzo Pinti lately?" said Mr. Waters. "Not very," said Colville.
A cool, sweet night wind came in through the open windows, refreshingly. And quite suddenly there was framed in one of them a figure more exotic, more bizarre, than any of our maskers had been. His dark robe was folded over his breast, and the silver shaft of a knife showed in his red girdle.
If, however, it hits you on a tender place well, myself, I always find that a little sal volatile, with old cognac half and half, you understand is about the best thing. But it only happens once a year," she added. Nearly every town gives prizes for the best group of maskers. In some cases the first prize amounts to as much as two hundred pounds.
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