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Simon Memmi means that all music must be "sacred." Not that you are never to sing anything but hymns, but that whatever is rightly called music, or work of the Muses, is divine in help and healing. The actions of both hands are singularly sweet. The right is one of the loveliest things I ever saw done in painting.
"Although this is the palazzo Memmi, I will thank your Highness to quit," said the Duke, assuming the cold irony of a polished gentleman. "I am at home here." "Let me tell you, Monsieur le Duc, that you are in my room, not in your own," said Clarina, rousing herself from her amazement. "If you have any doubts of my virtue, at any rate give me the benefit of my crime " "Doubts!
Memmi, on the other hand, knocked his head against the tree-trunks like a hooded crow. But at this moment a servant came in pursuit of the young Venetian to deliver a letter brought by express messenger.
In Giotto's Charity, luckily not restored, at Assisi, the guide-books have always mistaken the heart she holds for an apple: and my own belief is that originally, the Grammatice of Simon Memmi made with her right hand the sign which said, "Enter ye in at the Strait Gate," and with her left, the sign which said, "My son, give me thine Heart."
Men must have looked like that, before they had invented harmony, or felt that one note differed from another, says, and knows Simon Memmi. Darwinism, like all widely popular and widely mischievous fallacies, has many a curious gleam and grain of truth in its tissue. Under Moses. Medallion, a youth drinking. Otherwise, you might have thought only church music meant, and not feast music also.
"Will you explain to me," said he, shaking his foot to free it from her embrace, "how you happen to be in my palazzo? How the impoverished Emilio Memmi " "Emilio Memmi!" cried Tinti, rising. "You said you were a Prince." "A Prince since yesterday." "You are in love with the Duchess Cataneo!" said she, looking at him from head to foot.
You think Rhetoric should be glowing, fervid, impetuous? No, says Simon Memmi. Above all things, cool. And now let us read what is written on her scroll: Mulceo, dum loquor, varios induta colores. Her chief function, to melt; make soft, thaw the hearts of men with kind fire; to overpower with peace; and bring rest, with rainbow colours.
He was an intimate friend of the worthless C. Memmius, whom he extols in a manner creditable to his heart but not to his judgment. But he was no flatterer, nor was Memmius a patron. Poet and statesman lived on terms of perfect equality. The allusion "Nam neque nos agere hoc patriai tempore iniquo Possumus aequo animo, nec Memmi clara propago Talibus in rebus communi desse saluti,"
The boxes were in a ferment like the stir of swarming bees. One man alone remained passive in the turmoil. Emilio Memmi, with his back to the stage and his eyes fixed on Massimilla with a melancholy expression, seemed to live in her gaze; he had not once looked round at the prima donna. "I need not ask you, caro carino, what was the result of my negotiation," said Vendramin to Emilio.
So they went again and again to the Accademia delle Belle Arti and studied those quaint, half-Byzantine works, full of pathetic grace, by Guido da Siena, by Duccio, Simone Martini, Lippo Memmi, and the Lorenzetti brothers. Here, too, they found paintings by Il Sodoma, a High Renaissance artist, which pleased them more than all else.
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