naqqu'io

Updated: July 13, 2026

The idealist who became a reformer with Savonarola, and a republican superintending the fortification of Florence the nest where he was born, il nido ove naqqu'io, as he calls it once, in a sudden throb of affection in its last struggle for liberty, yet believed always that he had imperial blood in his veins and was of the kindred of the great Matilda, had within the depths of his nature some secret spring of indignation or sorrow.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry