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Updated: June 23, 2025
A shout of savage exultation rent the air as Roderigo Calderon, Marquis de Siete Iglesias, appeared upon the scaffold But, when the eyes of the multitude rested not upon that lofty and stately form, in all the pride of manhood, which they had been accustomed to associate with their fears of the stern genius and iron power of the favourite but upon a bent and spectral figure, that seemed already on the verge of a natural grave, with a face ploughed deep with traces of unutterable woe, and hollow eyes that looked with dim and scarce conscious light over the human sea that murmured and swayed below, the tide of the popular emotion changed; to rage and triumph succeeded shame and pity.
The storm is already gathering round him; he must be more than man if he escapes the thunderbolt." "Do you speak to me thus of my kinsman, the Cardinal-Duke de Lerma?" "No, Don Martin, pardon me. I spoke of the Marquis de Siete Iglesias. Are you so great a stranger to Madrid and to the court as to suppose that the Cardinal de Lerma ever signs a paper but at the instance of Don Roderigo?
Sometimes he said, "Siete il benvenuto," or used some other Italian phrase, which put me at ease with him in the region where we were most at home together. Looking back I must confess that I do not see what it was he found to make him wish for my company, which he presently insisted upon having once a week at dinner.
He did so, and when they had reached the sitting-room, the figure lifted the hood of his cloak and disclosed Shelley's own features, and saying, 'Siete soddisfatto? vanished.
'Los siete libres de la Diana de Jorge de Montemayor' the Spanish form of Montemôr's name and that by which he became familiar to subsequent ages appeared at Valencia, without date, but about 1560. As in the case of its Italian and Portuguese predecessors, some at least of the characters of the romance represent real persons.
Special regulations, decrees, etc., modifying the application of the laws to the colonies or promulgating new laws were frequent, and their compilation in 1680 was published as Law of the Indies. This and the Siete Partidas, on which they were largely based, comprised the code under which the Spanish-American colonies were governed."
Struck by this apparent levity in the midst of the general mortification, I went over to look at the bills and found the subject announced serious enough for the most Lenten entertainment, Los Siete Dolores de Maria, The Seven Sorrows of Mary, the old mediaeval Miracle of the Life of the Saviour. This was bringing suddenly home to me the fact that I was really in a Catholic country.
"Siete Italiano?" said I. "Si, Signor," was his reply. I said it was unusually far north to find one of his compatriots; at which he shrugged his shoulders, and replied that a man would go anywhere to find work.
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