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In like manner, the Venetian painter Battista Franco was summoned by him to paint the great chapel of the Duomo at Urbino, at the time when there was being made after his design the ornament of the organ of that Duomo, which is not yet finished.
Jonas turned his horses' heads a little towards the road, and moved them on a step. "Come, Franco," said he; "Franco, come." Franco, hearing these words, and seeing that Jonas was actually going, seemed to come to a final decision. He leaped off the steps, and bounded down the road, through the gate, and jumped up into Jonas's sleigh. Mr.
Indeed Dante consumes all our thoughts in mediaeval Ravenna. There is a tale told by Franco Sacchetti that I will set down here, for it expresses what in part we must all feel, and what in the confusion of philosophy at the end of the Middle Age was felt far more keenly by men who visited this strange city.
Federigo was meanwhile summoned to Venice, and made an agreement with the Patriarch Grimani to finish for him the chapel in S. Francesco della Vigna, which had remained incomplete, as has been related, on account of the death of the Venetian Battista Franco.
"I've got a piece of bread and butter," said Josey. "I went in and got it when you and Oliver were unloading." So Josey took his bread and butter out of his pocket. There were two small slices put together, and folded up in a piece of paper. Jonas took a piece, and walked slowly towards the dog. "Here! Franco, Franco," said Jonas. "He's coming," said Josey, who remained with Oliver at the sled.
Ney looked up, and, in a moment afterwards, jumped out of the sleigh, and came running up to the door. "Now," continued Mr. Edwards, "if you can call him back, while I am standing here, it is pretty good proof that you have been kind to him, and that he would like to go with you." So Jonas walked down towards the gate, looking back, and calling, "Franco, Franco, Franco!"
We passed the great warehouses of the Porto Franco, staring up at them, but impassively, in true country fashion, and a little beyond them came to the entrance of a street which for it was strewn with cabbage leaves and other refuse we judged to lead to the vegetable market. "Let us turn aside here," said the Princess.
Let Franco be assailed by a formidable enemy, and instantly you saw a Duke of Lorraine or Bar insisting on having his throat cut in support of France; which favor accordingly was cheerfully granted to them in three great successive battles by the English and by the Turkish sultan, viz., at Crécy, at Nicopolis, and at Agincourt.
The Palazzo Giovanelli A lovely picture A superb innovator Pictures for houses The Tempest Byron's criticism Giorgione and the experts Vasari's estimate Leonardo da Vinci The Giorgionesque fire A visit to Castel Franco The besieging children The Sacristan A beautiful altar-piece Pictures at Padua Giorgiones still to be discovered.
"'Answers to the name of Ney. "Ney, Ney," said Jonas, "I never called him Ney. I wonder if he would answer, if I should call him Ney. "'Is kind and docile, and quite intelligent. "Yes," said Jonas, "I verily believe it is Franco. "'Any person who will return said dog to the subscriber, at his residence at Walton Plain, shall be suitably rewarded.
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