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The side wall of the second chapel in the Church of Santa Maria della Pace in the Piazza Navona is sheathed with large slabs of remarkably fine Africano, "with edges bevelled like a rusticated basement." In the Belvedere Cortile in the Vatican is a portion of an ancient column of this marble, which is the most beautiful specimen in Rome; and the principal portal of the portico of St.
It seemed to him as if he had been living under glass while he had fancied himself enclosed in rock that was impenetrable by human eyes. He tried to laugh away his slight confusion. "Gaspare, you are the most birbante boy in Sicily!" he said. "You are like a Mago Africano." "Signorino, you should trust me," returned the boy, sullenly.
For pavements and the sheathing of interior walls giallo antico was used more frequently than almost any other kind of marble; hence it is mostly found in fragments of thin slabs, with the old polish still glistening upon them. It is difficult to describe, so as to identify it, the species of marble known as Africano.
Animam quidem ejus, ut de Africano ait Seneca, in coelum, unde erat, rediisse, mihi persuadeo.
Peter's is flanked by a pair of fluted Roman Ionic columns of Africano, which are the largest in the city. Closely allied to this marble is an ancient species which puzzles most visitors by its Protean appearance. Its tints are always neutral, but they vary in depth from the lightest to the darkest shade, and are never mixed but in juxtaposition.
I shall have many loves, first one and then another, but I shall never take a wife. My father wishes me to when I have finished the military service, but" and he laughed at his own ingenious comparison "I am like the Mago Africano when he was let out of the casket. I am free, and I will never let myself be stoppered-up as he did. Per Dio!" Suddenly Maurice frowned. "It isn't like " he began.
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