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Updated: June 3, 2025
It was perhaps as well that we did not, for the appearance of so large a party might have roused the suspicions of some of the Spanish authorities. My father came in from visiting a patient at the moment we arrived. Dona Dolores and Senor Monteverde had, I should have said, parted from us, and gone to the house of a friend.
He chided him when the countess complained of him. "Women!" the doctor would say with a bored expression. "You don't know what they are, master. They are only a hindrance to obstruct a man's career. You have been successful because you haven't let them dominate you because you are strong." And the poor strong man looked at Monteverde narrowly suspecting that he was making sport of him.
'Nothing but dynamite could have done such damage She was still speaking, when a lay sister rushed out of the door they were about to enter, with a broom in her hand, which she had evidently forgotten to put down. 'The powder magazine at Monteverde! she cried excitedly. 'I saw it from the window! It was like fireworks! It has blown up with everybody in it, I am sure! The lay sister was right.
A strong expedition commanded by don Jose Miguel Salomon arrived from Spain to help Monteverde, and Bolivar realized that he could not hope to succeed unless the enemy could be drawn out of the city to fight in the open. Consequently, he ordered his troops to withdraw.
The art of painting has taken at least twice as long to develop; yet the three centuries from Monteverde to Debussy cover as great a distance as that which separates Cimabue from Degas. In operatic history, revolutions, which in other arts have not been accomplished in several generations, have got themselves completed, and indeed almost forgotten, in the course of a few years.
Of Alessandro Striggio and his art work at the court of Mantua and elsewhere special mention will be made in another part of this work. Moreover it is not necessary that anything should be said here of the epoch-making creations of Claudio Monteverde, who was long in the Gonzaga service and who produced his "Orfeo" at Mantua.
Bach's oratorios lay buried for a full century. On the other hand, names great in their day are utterly lost from the horizon. It is hard to conceive the éclat of a Buononcini or a Monteverde, whose works were once preëminent. There are elements in art, of special, sensational effect, that make a peculiar appeal in their time, and are incompatible with true and permanent greatness.
We have not even recourse to the supposition that Ugolino may have employed the pizzicato since that was not invented till after his day by Monteverde. We are, however, compelled to conclude that Baccio Ugolino preceded Corteccia in this manner of solo, afterwards called "recitar alla lira."
'Giovanni Severi has been brought here from Monteverde, she said. 'His right arm is so badly crushed that unless it is amputated he will certainly die. Sister Giovanna did not start, for she had guessed that he had received some terrible injury. She answered quietly enough, by a question. 'Is he conscious? she asked.
Bolivar's First Expedition. The Cruelty of War After the entrance of Monteverde in Caracas and the ensuing persecutions, all Venezuela could be considered as reconquered for Spain, and it seemed that all was lost for the cause of independence.
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