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The tyrant held so many places, as we shall see, his prowess is everywhere, but Tommaso Parentucelli is like to be forgotten, for his glory is not written in sword-cuts or in any violated city, but in the forgotten pages of the humanists, the beautiful life of Vespasiano da Bisticci.
But Cucurullo himself, good soul, was pleased at having forced Tommaso to slacken his pace and listen to him. 'I come of my own intention, dear friend, he said, 'because I am in constant anxiety about the Lady Ortensia.
Three days after Clement VI's bull had been published in the capital, the chief-justice was ready for a public examination of two accused persons. The two culprits who had first fallen into the hands of justice were, as one may easily suppose, those whose condition was least exalted, whose lives were least valuable, Tommaso Pace and Nicholas of Melazzo.
A noble statue Bartolommeo Colleoni Verrocchio A Dominican church Mocenigo Doges The tortured Bragadino The Valier monument Leonardo Loredano Sebastian Venier The Chapel of the Rosary Sansovino An American eulogy Michele Steno Tommaso Mocenigo A brave re-builder The Scuola di S. Marco.
Thus it must be while the world lasts; and the very racks and scrues wherewith they aim to overcome the nobler spiritt onlie lift and reveal its power of exaltation above the heaviest gloom of circumstance. Interfecistis, interfecistis hominem omnium anglorum optimum. The Betrothed Poet, dramatist, and novelist, Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was born at Milan on March 7, 1785.
Little did this hardy adventurer suspect what had occurred on shore since he quitted it; nor was he at all aware that Tommaso Tonti was at watch in the harbor, ready to report the slightest indication on the part of the lugger of a wish to quit the bay. But, while Raoul was so indifferent to the danger he ran, the feeling was quite the reverse with Ithuel Bolt.
Two men, both named Tommaso though it does not transpire that they were related one a chamberlain of the Palace of Forli, the other a musician, were so devoted to the Countess Sforza-Riario, the grim termagant who ruled the fiefs of her murdered husband, Girolamo Riario, as to have undertaken an enterprise from which they cannot have hoped to emerge with their lives.
With the words she lifted Tato high above her head and turned toward the pit that terrible cleft in the rocks which was believed to have no bottom. At her first movement Tommaso had raised his gun, and the Duke, perceiving this, called to him in an agonized voice to fire.
You will fall in love with her. I was a fool to tell you." "Well? And if I do fall in love with her, who cares?" Dalrymple slowly filled a glass of wine. "If you do?" The young girl's eyes shot a quick, sharp glance at him. Then her face suddenly grew grave as she saw that some one was at the street door, looking in cautiously. "Come in, Sor Tommaso!" she called, down the table.
Then he led the way up the hill, and both men trod so cautiously that when they passed the little house Ortensia did not hear a footfall in the road through the closed windows. Tommaso did not stop at the house door, however, but led Altieri on to the next, which was placed in the long wall and gave access to the vineyard.
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