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... French general or a Spanish viceroy , could long tolerate . It was in this state of affairs that Gian Giacomo Medici , Il Medeghino , as he was and is still called , appeared . He was a Lombard , the son of a Lombard born in Milan in ...
... French general or a Spanish viceroy , could long tolerate . It was in this state of affairs that Gian Giacomo Medici , Il Medeghino , as he was and is still called , appeared . He was a Lombard , the son of a Lombard born in Milan in ...
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... French monks . At Lenno , Pliny , according to Giovio the great historian of the Larian lake , had his villa " Comedy , " and some remains of the Roman time may still be seen there beneath the waters ; while on the southern promontory ...
... French monks . At Lenno , Pliny , according to Giovio the great historian of the Larian lake , had his villa " Comedy , " and some remains of the Roman time may still be seen there beneath the waters ; while on the southern promontory ...
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... French were not the only " foreigners " that Ludovico brought into Lombardy . It was now that Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci came to his splendid court , illuminated for a moment the whole plain by their art , so strange in that ...
... French were not the only " foreigners " that Ludovico brought into Lombardy . It was now that Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci came to his splendid court , illuminated for a moment the whole plain by their art , so strange in that ...
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... French learned the invincible character of national troops when opposed to the mercenary soldiery em- ployed by the Italian City States . Charles marched homeward , but Louis XII . returned , and Louis XII . remembered the will of the ...
... French learned the invincible character of national troops when opposed to the mercenary soldiery em- ployed by the Italian City States . Charles marched homeward , but Louis XII . returned , and Louis XII . remembered the will of the ...
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... French army and to pay enormous fines in kind ; but , on the other hand , she presently became the capital of the greatest State ever founded upon Italian soil since the fall of the Empire , a State which included Lombardy , Emilia and ...
... French army and to pay enormous fines in kind ; but , on the other hand , she presently became the capital of the greatest State ever founded upon Italian soil since the fall of the Empire , a State which included Lombardy , Emilia and ...
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Alps altarpiece Ambrogio Ambrose Apennines Archbishop army Austrians Autharis Baptistery barbarian beautiful became Bergamo Bishop Blessed Virgin Boii Borgognone Brera Brescia building built Canossa Castello Castiglione Cathedral Certosa chapel choir Christ church Cisalpine Gaul Correggio Crema Cremona crossed delightful Duomo Duomo of Milan Emperor Empire Europe façade famous Farnese fifteenth century Francesco Sforza frescoes Galeazzo Gallery Giovanni Giulio Campi Gotard Gothic Hannibal Insubres Italian Italy King Lago lake later Latin Leonardo Lodi Lombardy Lorenzo lovely Madonna and Child Maggiore Mantua Maria master Milan Milanese miles Modena monastery Monte Monza mountains nave noble painted painter palace Palazzo Parma pass Pavia perhaps pestilence Piacenza Piazza picture Pietà plain Pope Porta Portrait pupil Reggio remains Renaissance road Rocke Roman Romanino Rome ruin Saints seems shrine side stands Theodolinda thing to-day tomb tower town transept vast Venetian Venice Verona Villa Visconti
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Page 199 - AVE ATQUE VALE.' Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row ! So they row'd, and there we landed — ' O venusta Sirmio ! ' There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that
Page 303 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Page 206 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas, et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 110 - He therefore discoursed with him at some length respecting art, and made it perfectly manifest to his comprehension, that men of genius are sometimes producing most when they seem to be labouring least, their minds being occupied in the elucidation of their ideas, and in the completion of those conceptions to which they afterwards give form and expression with the hand.
Page 198 - Sirmio, insularumque ocelle, quascumque in liquentibus stagnis marique vasto fert uterque Neptunus, quam te libenter quamque laetus inviso, vix mi ipse credens Thyniam atque Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto...
Page 110 - Monastery was excessively importunate in pressing Leonardo to complete the picture; he could in no way comprehend wherefore the artist should sometimes remain half a day together absorbed in thought before his work, without making any progress that he could see; this seemed to him a strange waste of time, and he would fain have had him work away as he could make the men do who were digging in his garden, never laying the pencil out of his hand.
Page 109 - For the Dominican monks of Santa Maria delle Grazie at Milan, he also painted a Last Supper, which is a most beautiful and admirable work; to the heads of the Apostles in this picture the master gave so much beauty and majesty that he was constrained to leave that of Christ unfinished, being convinced that he could not impart to it the divinity which should appertain to and distinguish an image of the Redeemer.
Page 111 - ... however, he would make search, and after all — if he could find no better, he need never be at any great loss, for there would always be the head of that troublesome and impertinent Prior. This made the Duke laugh with all his heart, he declared Leonardo to be completely in the right, and the poor Prior, utterly confounded, went away to drive on the digging in his garden, and left Leonardo in peace...
Page 110 - ... strange waste of time, and he would fain have had him work away as he could make the men do who were digging in his garden, never laying the pencil out of his hand. Not content with seeking to hasten Leonardo, the Prior even complained to the Duke, and tormented him to such a degree that the latter was at length compelled to send for Leonardo, whom he courteously entreated to let the work be finished, assuring him nevertheless that he did so because compelled by the importunities of the Prior.
Page 256 - ... have felt his way towards the paragraph, working out, in those prefaces for which he had no French exemplar, a somewhat involved style. He is fond of relative sentences, and sometimes piles them on the top of each other without finishing the earlier ones: "Which thing when Gotard had advertised of and that he bare so away the bread, but he wist not to whom ne whither, whereof he marvelled and so did all his household." He mixes direct and indirect speech; he uses the redundant which: "I fynde...