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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Would you like to go away to the south and live there?" Captain Riccardi asked slowly. "Oh, yes, of course. I dream sometimes that I am a princess and that a wicked fairy has turned me into a goat-herder and forced me to live here where it is so very cold sometimes, and then I wish hard for a good fairy to come and set me free, and take me on a magic carpet away to a garden full of flowers.
It has not the least the aspect of a church, being high and square, like a mediaeval palace; but deep and high niches are let into its walls, within which stand great statues of saints, masterpieces of Donatello, and other sculptors of that age, before sculpture began to be congealed by the influence of Greek art. The Riccardi Palace is at the corner of the Via Larga.
Looking diagonally across it from the church one sees the great walls of the courtyard of what is now the Riccardi palace, but was in the great days the Medici palace; and at the corner, facing the Borgo S. Lorenzo, is Giovanni delle Bande Nere, in stone, by the impossible Bandinelli, looking at least twenty years older than he ever lived to be.
The group of the little boy, horsed upon a bigger boy's back for a whipping, is one of the most natural episodes in painting. Riccardi Chapel. For an example, the picture of Madonna worshipping the infant Christ upheld by two little angels in the Uffizzi. In the Academy of Fine Arts at Florence. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, vol. ii. chap. 19.
Riccardi was at first desirous to examine the MS. again, but, after inspecting only the beginning and the end of it, he gave Galileo leave to print it wherever he chose, providing it bore the license of the Inquisitor-General of Florence, and one or two other persons whom he named.
Daniel, my brother called him; but I know nothing of his country or of his belongings. 'Daniel is a Christian name, not a family name, is it not? We have scores of people like that Tommasina, Riccardi, and such like in Italy, but they mean nothing. 'Our friend below-stairs looks as if that was not his failing. I should say that he means a good deal.
For himself he constructed four splendid villas, at Careggi, Fiesole, Caffaggiolo, and Trebbio, and in the city the magnificent palace in the Via Larga, now called the Riccardi. Being invested in commerce, his property yielded, and ought to have yielded, an income of twenty per cent.
It was the first hat she had ever owned and she was very proud of it. When it was tilted to her satisfaction she took up the basket and went out by the garden gate. The hospital was a little over a mile away. Lucia had visited it with Captain Riccardi. It had formerly been a private villa and its terraced gardens went down to the water's edge.
It was in the seventeenth century that the palace passed to the Riccardi family, who made many additions. A century later Florence acquired it, and to-day it is the seat of the Prefect of the city. Cosimo's original building was smaller; but much of it remains untouched.
I may refer to the picture of the hunters in the Taylor Gallery at Oxford, the "Vintage of Noah" at Pisa, the attendants of the Magi in the Riccardi Palace, and the Carola in the "Marriage of Jacob and Rachel" at Pisa. "Stories of Isaac and Ishmael and of Jacob and Esau" at Pisa, and "Story of S. Augustine" at San Gemignano. Nothing can be prettier than the school children in the latter series.
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