The Golden Days of the Renaissance in Rome: From the Pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul IIIHoughton, Mifflin, 1906 - 340 pages |
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Page 219 - He for his part, loved her so, that I remember to have heard him say that he regretted nothing except that when he went to visit her upon the moment of her passage from this life, he did not kiss her forehead or her face, as he did kiss her hand. Her death was the cause that oftentimes he dwelt astonied, thinking of it, even as a man bereft of sense.
Page 219 - He still preserves many of her letters breathing honorable and most tender affection. . . . He, for his part, loved her so that I remember to have heard him say that he regretted nothing except that, when he went to visit her upon the moment of her passage from this life, he did not kiss her forehead or her face, as he did kiss her hand. Her death was the cause that oftentimes...
Page 188 - ... would go to any province, to pray first the Lord, and to set the friars to pray that the Lord would direct his heart to that same place which was most pleasing to Him. ) The brethren therefore went to pray, and when it was finished they returned to him, and straightway he said to them : " In the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the glorious Virgin Mary His Mother, and of all saints, I choose the province of France in which is a Catholic folk, especially because amongst all other Catholics...
Page 64 - ... and sparkling eyes, her generosity and carelessness with money, her grace of carriage and charm of conversation, she was received in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Ferrara like a visiting princess. The Mantuan ambassador at Ferrara described her entry in an undiplomatic letter to Isabella d'Este (1537): I have to record the arrival among us of a gentle lady, so modest in behavior, so fascinating in manners, that we cannot help considering her something divine.
Page 141 - ... besides lecturing from the chair they should hold familiar conversations with the students; that the professor failing to lecture without sufficient excuse should be heavily fined ; that professors of law should not practice before the courts ; that the janitors should keep a record of the lectures duly given or of those omitted, and finally that the professors should be subject to an income tax of three per cent.
Page 231 - Aquila, testamentary executors and recipients of the last wishes of Raphael, have raised this memorial to his affianced wife, Maria, daughter of Antonio of Bibbiena, whom death deprived of a happy marriage," etc. As regards the second and truest love of Raphael, the accounts given by his early biographers rest more on tradition than on facts. We only know the girl to have been diual Bibbiena liis commission for the cartoons of the tapestries.
Page 219 - The room in which the admirable woman died opened on the garden of the palace, the name of which (Palazzo Argentina) is still attached to one of the neighboring streets. The body was undoubtedly removed to the church of Sant' Anna, according to the provision of her will ; but such was the cowardly fear which seized all those who had been associated with the deceased lady, lest the Inquisition should involve them in the disgrace with which her memory was threatened, that the coffin was abandoned in...
Page 266 - Raffaello accresciuta, e de' premi parimente ; perchè, per lasciare memoria di se, fece murare un palazzo a Roma in Borgo Nuovo, il quale Bramante fece condurre di getto.
Page 10 - His biographer, Platina, says : " He found Rome in such a state of devastation that it could hardly be considered a city fit for human habitation : whole rows of houses abandoned by their tenants ; many churches fallen to the ground ; streets deserted and buried under heaps of refuse ; traces of plague and famine everywhere.
Page 168 - ... outsiders. They must, however, make the .following declaration to ease their conscience : they highly disapprove Michelangelo's methods, especially in demolishing and destroying the work of his predecessors. This mania of pulling to pieces what has been already erected at such enormous cost is criticised by everybody ; however, if the Pope is pleased with it, we have nothing to say.