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Having said so much about this pulpit of S. Andrea, I am sorry that I cannot refer the English reader to any accessible representation of it. For its sake alone, if for no other purpose, Pistoja is well worth a visit. It was long believed that he died of eating poisoned figs. See Il Duomo di Orvieto, descritto ed illustrato per Lodovico Luzi, pp. 330-339.
The Guelphic revolution had put her into definite political opposition with her nearest, and therefore, according to the custom and Christianity of the time, her hatefullest, neighbours, Pistoja, Pisa, Siena, and Volterra. What glory might not be acquired, what kind purposes answered, by making pacific mercantile states also of those benighted towns!
Other churches too there are in Pistoja: S. Piero Maggiore, where, as in Florence, so here, the Bishop, coming to the city, was wedded in a lovely symbol to the Benedictine Abbess there too are the works of Maestro Bono the sculptor; S. Salvadore, which stands in the place where, as it is said, they buried Cataline; S. Domenico, where you may find the beautiful tombs of Andrea Franchi and of Filippo Lazzeri the humanist this made by Rossellino in 1494.
Here in Pistoja are some precious pieces a Visitation in San Giovanni, a pearly Madonna Incoronata on the big door of San Giacopo, concerning which it would be difficult to account to one's self for the added zest given by the mantle of fine dust which has settled down on the pale folds of the drapery and outlined the square blue panels of the background.
When and at what hour of day or night have I not been ready to serve you?" "Why, that's as may be," said I. "I think I could remind you of a night attack at Pistoja " "Oh, cruel," he said, "oh, cruel!" "Of a ravishment of the strappado applied to a man bound hand and foot " He pretended to weep. "Cruel, cruel Francis!"
Most unreasonable hope! Yet I declare that these were my convictions upon approaching Pistoja, and that, far from diminishing, as I drew nearer and nearer to the city, so did they increase and take root in my mind.
"Because yes," answered the dark man, in the common Italian idiom, and in a low tone. "Because we are waiting for the Florentines, certain of us of Pistoja, and we want no travellers in the way. And then because, if you will not " The right arm suddenly appeared, and in the hand was a spear, and the act was a threat to run Gilbert through, unmailed as he was, and just below his adversary.
See Heath Wilson, pp. 79-87, and the letter to Giuliano di San Gallo in Milanesi's Archivio Buonarroti, p. 377. Michael Angelo appears to have had some reason to fear assassination in Rome. See Michael Angelo's letters to Giovan Francesco Fattucci, and his family. Gotti, pp. 55-65. See the sonnet to Giovanni da Pistoja:
The Italian already knew, in regard to Michel Menko, all that it was necessary for him to know. Before going to London, Menko, on his return from Pau, after the death of his wife, had retired to a small house he owned in Pistoja; and here he had undoubtedly gone now. It was a house built on the side of a hill, and surrounded with olive-trees.
Unable to rest at Pistoja, where contradictory reports reached her about the Trial by Fire, she had gone on to Prato; and was beginning to think that she should be drawn on to Florence in spite of dread, when she encountered that monk of San Spirito who had been her godfather's confessor. From him she learned the full story of Savonarola's arrest, and of her husband's death.
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