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There sits, properly speaking, the general Secret Parliament of Europe; and from most Countries, except Austria, representatives attend at Strehlen, or go and come between Breslau and Strehlen, submissive to the evils of field-life, when need is. French Belleisle we have seen; who is gone again, long since, on his wide errands; fat Valori too we have seen, who is assiduously here.
To Friedrich's very great astonishment, and to his considerable disadvantage, long after! Friedrich's look, when Valori met him again coming home from this Moravian Futility, was "FAROUCHE," fierce and dark; his laugh bitter, sardonic; harsh mockery, contempt and suppressed rage, looking through all he said. A proud young King, getting instructed in several things, by the stripes of experience.
The party so formed, including even such distinguished citizens as the Guicciardini, Baccio Valori, and Francesco Vettori, proved the chief obstacle to the restoration of Florentine liberty in the sixteenth century. Compare v. 4 and vii. 4-6 for his character of Cosimo.
This diligent sowing in the Reich to judge by the 100,000, armed men here, and the counter hundreds of thousands arming has been a pretty stroke of dragon's-teeth husbandry on Belleisle's part. It was April 26th when Marechal de Belleisle, with his Brother the Chevalier, with Valori and other bright accompaniment, arrived in Friedrich's Camp.
"Monseigneur, with compressed or incompressible feelings, indignantly complies, what could he else, unfortunate rheumatic gentleman? and is plucked away in such sudden manner, he for one, out of that big German game of his raising. "Afflicted indignant Valori, soon enough apprised, runs to Friedrich with the news, greets Friedrich with it just alighting from that Silesian run of his own.
Dreadfully exclaimed against, the old gentleman, especially by the French co-managers: 'Why did not the old traitor stick in the rear of Prince Karl, in the difficult passes, and drive him prone, while we went besieging Freyburg, and poaching about, trying for a bit of the Brisgau while chance served! A traitor beyond doubt; probably bought with money down: thinks Valori.
Paolo Mini, the father of Antonio, Michael Angelo’s assistant, wrote to Baccio Valori on September 29 : "Michael Angelo will not live long unless some measures are taken for his benefit. He works very hard, eats little and poorly, and sleeps less. In fact, he is afflicted with two kinds of disorder: the one in his head, the other in his heart.
Under Pietro Medici, Ficino was already at the head of a school; to him Pietro's son and Cosimo's grandson, the illustrious Lorenzo, came over from the Peripatetics. Among his most distinguished fellow-scholars were Bartolommeo Valori, Donato Acciaiuoli, and Pierfilippo Pandolfini.
There were men of high birth, accustomed to public charges at home and abroad, who had become newly conspicuous not only as enemies of the Medici and friends of popular government, but as thorough Piagnoni, espousing to the utmost the doctrines and practical teaching of the Frate, and frequenting San Marco as the seat of another Samuel: some of them men of authoritative and handsome presence, like Francesco Valori, and perhaps also of a hot and arrogant temper, very much gratified by an immediate divine authority for bringing about freedom in their own way; others, like Soderini, with less of the ardent Piagnone, and more of the wise politician.
Immediately upon receipt of your acceptance, it will be a pleasure to me to send you a remittance of two hundred lire through the banking firm of Valori in Mantua. The sum is to defray the cost of your journey. Long after Casanova had finished reading the letter, he stood holding the paper so as to conceal the deathly pallor of his countenance.
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