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One is placed in the centre of the middle nave of Santa Sabina, on the Aventine, on the top of a short spirally-fluted column of white marble, which marks the spot where St. Dominic, the founder of the order of the Dominicans, used to kneel down and pray. It has received the name of Pietra di Paragone, or the Touchstone.
Boccalini was compelled to leave Rome and seek safety in Venice. He also wrote a bitter satire upon the Spanish misrule in Italy, entitled Pietra del paragone politico . In this book he showed that the power of the King of Spain in Italy was not so great as men imagined, and that it would be easy to remove the Spanish yoke from their necks.
This was very well for "my friend" to wish at the time he did wish it: for that was more than two months ago. Constable's ship: and we must again consult Spenser to see what is likely to happen in this case to the false Florimel: Then did he set her by that snowy one, Like the true saint beside the image set. Of both their beauties to make paragone And triall whether should the honor get.
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