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John, and there being, among many spoils of marbles, brought by the Pisan fleet, some ancient tombs, there was one among the others most fair, on which was sculptured the hunting of Meleager." Foster's English translation, to which I shall always refer, in order that English students may compare the context if they wish.
It was in fact a kind of pigeon Italian. Shelley acquired two nick-names in the circle of his Pisan friends, both highly descriptive. He was Ariel and the Snake. The latter suited him because of his noiseless gliding movement, bright eyes, and ethereal diet.
I reproduce the punctuation of the Pisan edition, with a colon after 'his own, and a semicolon after 'sorrow. It appears to me however that the sense would rather require either a full stop after 'his own, and a comma after 'sorrow, or else a comma after 'his own, and a full stop or colon after 'sorrow. Yet it is possible that the phrase, 'As in the accents, &c., forms a separate clause by itself, meaning, 'As if in the accents of an unknown land, he sang new sorrow.
When the birds went to roost he returned home, and talked and read until midnight." The great wood of stone pines on the Pisan Maremma was his favourite study.
It seems probable that it speaks as pure a Paganism just that very Paganism which Pisan building represents as has been seen since the workmen of Tanagra fashioned their little clay familiars for the tombs, slim Greek girls in their reedy habit as they lived, or chattering matrons like those you read of in Theocritus.
It was one of the twelve great cities of ancient Etruria, that commonwealth which has left so many monuments in testimony of its extraordinary advancement, and so little history of itself that is tangible and comprehensible. A Pisan antiquarian gave me an ancient tear-jug which he averred was full four thousand years old. It was found among the ruins of one of the oldest of the Etruscan cities.
Coming to our own days we have quite a crowd of writers who have written with enthusiasm on the Maid of Domremy. It is sufficient to name the most prominent of these Landor, Sir James Mackintosh, John Sterling, Lord Mahon, De Quincey, and J.R. Green. No. To begin with her own countrywoman for the first who sang of Joan of Arc was appropriately enough a fellow-countrywoman Christine de Pisan.
Nevertheless Lionardo consented to compete with Michael Angelo for the painting in fresco of one side of the council-hall, by the order of the gonfaloniere for the year. Lionardo chose for his subject a victory of the Florentines over the Milanese, while Michael Angelo took a scene from the Pisan campaigns.
Now at that time the King of France had restored Pisa her liberty, and the war between the Florentines and the Pisans was still raging; and Giuliano, wishing to pass through Pisan territory, had a safe-conduct made out for his company at Lucca, for they had no small apprehension about the Pisan soldiers.
Pisan we find this Remolino duly established as a lecturer on canon law in the following year. The letter is further of interest as showing Cesare's full consciousness of the importance of his position; its tone and its signature "your brother, Cesar de Borgia, Elect of Valencia" being such as were usual between princes.
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