serventi

Updated: May 2, 2025

For my part, I say boldly, before Gatien, I give up Paris; I mean to stay at Sancerre and swell the number of your cavalieri serventi. I feel so young again in my native district; I have quite forgotten Paris and all its wickedness, and its bores, and its wearisome pleasures. Yes, my life seems in a way purified."

Honoré de Balzac - Parisians in the Country

For my part, I say boldly, before Gatien, I give up Paris; I mean to stay at Sancerre and swell the number of your cavalieri serventi. I feel so young again in my native district; I have quite forgotten Paris and all its wickedness, and its bores, and its wearisome pleasures. Yes, my life seems in a way purified."

Honoré de Balzac - The Muse of the Department

So when he suffers it is like a man, not like a descendant of medieval mystics and cavalieri serventi." His body relaxed, and he muttered: "A bit of romance for her in imitation of some favorite play or book. An emotional hour with the man from Africa and now a musical fellow." After a sharp expulsion of his breath he resumed that immobility which extended even to his eyes.

Stephen French Whitman - Sacrifice

Now, if there was a country where an intrigue between a woman noted for her virtue and a poet noted for his eccentricity would, had it existed, have been joyfully laid hold of by gossip, it was certainly this utterly-demoralised Italy of cavalieri serventi: every fashionable woman and every fast man would have felt a personal satisfaction in tearing to pieces the reputation of a lady whose whole character and life had been a censure upon theirs.

Vernon Lee - The Countess of Albany