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Updated: June 21, 2025
From right to left he pushed aside the crowd his strength was as a giant's. He neared the fatal spot. A dead hush lay like a heavy air over the multitude. He heard a voice, as he pressed along, deep and clear it was the voice of his father! it ceased the audience breathed heavily they murmured they swayed to and fro. On, on, went Angelo Villani.
Two great writers, Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Villani, at this epoch pursued different lines of study, which determined the future of this branch of literature for the Italians.
It must have been just here the Statue of Mars was set, under the shadow of which Buondelmonte was murdered so brutally; and thus, as Bandello tells us, following Villani, began the Guelph and Ghibelline factions in Florence.
It was S. Giovanni Gualberto who founded the Vallombrosan Order and established here an abbey, whose daughter we now see. Born about the year 1000, he was the son of Gualberto dei Visdomini, Signore of Petroio in Val di Pesa, of the great family who lived in St. Peter's Gate in Florence, and were, according to Villani, the patrons of the bishopric.
It must be thought of. Hast thou any friend to name?" said the Senator, smiling, "Methinks thy cavils point that way." "My Lord," replied Villani, colouring; "I am too young perhaps; but the post is one that demands fidelity more than it does years. Shall I own it? My tastes are rather to serve thee with my sword than with my pen." "Wilt thou, indeed, accept the office?
You may as well note at once of this kind of bearing, called 'gagliarda' by Villani, that these groups of piles, pales, bends, and bars, were called in English heraldry 'Restrial bearings, "in respect of their strength and solid substance, which is able to abide the stresse and force of any triall they shall be put unto."
I will give you this heraldry as far as I can make it out from Villani; it will be very useful to us afterwards; I leave the Italian when I cannot translate it: Gonfalon 1. Gules; a ladder, argent. 2. Argent; a scourge, sable. 3. Gules; a dragon, vert. B. Sesto of St. Peter Scheraggio. Azure; a chariot, or. 2. Or; a bull, sable. 3. Argent; a lion rampant, sable. 4.
I hope not, for I don't love her much; nor, for that matter, anything else. I wish she would place me with the Tribune's lady, and then we'll see who among the lads will call Angelo Villani bastard." With that the boy fell to work again at his sword with redoubled vigour.
In fact, the cold manner of this female, his sole nurse, companion, substitute for parent, had repelled his affections without subduing his temper; and though not originally of evil disposition, Angelo Villani was already insolent, cunning, and revengeful; but not, on the other hand, without a quick susceptibility to kindness as to affront, a natural acuteness of understanding, and a great indifference to fear.
"But let Walter de Montreal once appear in Rome, and the proud jester shall pay us dearly for this." "Hush!" said Arimbaldo, "walls have ears, and that imp of Satan, young Villani, seems to me ever at our heels!" "A thousand florins! I trust his heart hath as many drops," growled the chafed Brettone, unheeding his brother.
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