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It's mainly in such a light, I confess, at any rate, that at this hour the ugly fruit of my exile is present to me. Even at first indeed the spirit in which my avidity, as I have called it, made me regard this term owed no element of ease to the fact that before coming back from Rapallo George Corvick addressed me in a way I didn't like.
Even at first indeed the spirit in which my avidity, as I have called it, made me regard that term owed no element of ease to the fact that before coming back from Rapallo George Corvick addressed me in a way I objected to.
It makes you feel rather helpless. And gales can be strong enough, in the late autumn, on the Riviera di Levante. It is on nights when the wind blows its hardest, but makes no rift anywhere for a star to peep through, that the Golden Drugget, as I approach it, gladdens my heart the most. The distance between Rapallo and my home up yonder is rather more than two miles.
'The shock on reading your confession for I look upon your Rapallo letter as one was very great, for on reading it I felt that a good deal that I had written to you about the salvation of your soul was inspired, not by any pure fear that I had done anything that might lose a soul to God, but by pure selfishness.
The Italian States confront the Great Nations of Europe Policy of Louis XI. of France Character of Charles VIII. Preparations for the Invasion of Italy Position of Lodovico Sforza Diplomatic Difficulties in Italy after the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici Weakness of the Republics II Moro The year 1494 Alfonso of Naples Inefficiency of the Allies to cope with France Charles at Lyons is stirred up to the Invasion of Italy by Giuliano della Rovere Charles at Asti and Pavia Murder of Gian Galeazzo Sforza Mistrust in the French Army Rapallo and Fivizzano The Entrance into Tuscany Part played by Piero de' Medici Charles at Pisa His Entrance into Florence Piero Capponi The March on Rome Entry into Rome Panic of Alexander VI. The March on Naples The Spanish Dynasty: Alfonso and Ferdinand Alfonso II. escapes to Sicily Ferdinand II. takes Refuge in Ischia Charles at Naples The League against the French De Comines at Venice Charles makes his Retreat by Rome, Siena, Pisa, and Pontremoli The Battle of Fornovo Charles reaches Asti and returns to France Italy becomes the Prize to be fought for by France, Spain, and Germany Importance of the Expedition of Charles VIII.
Jacobi himself was, it seemed, on friendly terms with Bindo. Sometimes I saw the pair strolling together at Pancaldi's, and once the young Marquis of Rapallo was with them. One hot, stifling night, a brilliant ball was held, arranged at the Princess's instigation, in the cause of charity.
But your heart turns ever toward Italy yonder towards the hills of marble. Will one ever reach them, those far-away pure peaks immaculate in silence, like a thought of God in the loneliness of the mountains? Far away below you lies Rapallo in the crook of the bay among the oleanders and vines.
These terror-striking examples were the massacres of the inhabitants of Rapallo on the Genoese Riviera, and of Fivizzano in Lunigiana. Soldiers and burghers, even prisoners and wounded men in the hospitals, were butchered, first by the Swiss and German guards, and afterwards by the French, who would not be outdone by them in energy.
Your letter from Rapallo cured me; like a surgeon's knife, it took out the ulcer that was eating my life away. The expression will seem exaggerated, I know; but let it remain. You no doubt felt that I was in ignorance of my own state of feelings regarding you, and you wrote just such a letter as would force me to look into my heart and to discover who I really was.
We all spent during this episode, for people of our means, a great deal of money in telegrams, and I counted on the receipt of news from Rapallo immediately after the junction of the discoverer with the discovered. The interval seemed an age, but late one day I heard a hansom rattle up to my door with a crash engendered by a hint of liberality.
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