Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius, and the Amalthei: Translations from Their Poetical Works: and Notes and Observations Concerning Other Literary Characters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
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... Picus of Mirandula , ( d ) to whom ( d ) This nobleman , termed the Phoenix of his age , young- est son of Joannes Franciscus Picus , prince of Mirandula and Concordia , was born Feb. 24 , 1463. Even in his childhood he is said to have ...
... Picus of Mirandula , ( d ) to whom ( d ) This nobleman , termed the Phoenix of his age , young- est son of Joannes Franciscus Picus , prince of Mirandula and Concordia , was born Feb. 24 , 1463. Even in his childhood he is said to have ...
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... Picus by the shafts of ridicule ; but finding these ineffectual , selected thirteen of his theses , which they declared to be of an heretical tendency . This charge gave a new occasion to the display of the prodigious intellectual ...
... Picus by the shafts of ridicule ; but finding these ineffectual , selected thirteen of his theses , which they declared to be of an heretical tendency . This charge gave a new occasion to the display of the prodigious intellectual ...
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... Picus remained at Rome a whole year , the proposed dis- putations never took place . INNOCENT VIII . persuaded that the agitation of such questions might be attended with danger , interdicted the discussion , and ordered them to be ...
... Picus remained at Rome a whole year , the proposed dis- putations never took place . INNOCENT VIII . persuaded that the agitation of such questions might be attended with danger , interdicted the discussion , and ordered them to be ...
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... Picus, our dear and never sufficiently to be commended prince : — by means of whose instructions, you will soon attain to the same pre-eminence in wisdom, which you already possess in oratory and poetry. Did I not highly esteem you both ...
... Picus, our dear and never sufficiently to be commended prince : — by means of whose instructions, you will soon attain to the same pre-eminence in wisdom, which you already possess in oratory and poetry. Did I not highly esteem you both ...
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... Picus often steals unexpectedly upon me, out of his own plantation, and conducts me from my concealment to sup with him. You know what kind of a table he keeps, oeconomical but elegant j— and enlivened by his wit and chearful con ...
... Picus often steals unexpectedly upon me, out of his own plantation, and conducts me from my concealment to sup with him. You know what kind of a table he keeps, oeconomical but elegant j— and enlivened by his wit and chearful con ...
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Page 79 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours; not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the Worthy and the Good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies GAY.
Page 89 - ... century, at a cheaper rate than they could obtain it from Egypt, where it was then extensively made. The first sugar plantations established in Spain were at Valencia, but they were soon after extended to Granada and Murcia. Prince Henry, the navigator, carried sugar-cane from Sicily to Madeira. Towards the end of the fifteenth and the commencement of the sixteenth centuries, it was conveyed to the Canary islands, where plantations were formed, especially on Gomera and Grand Canary. From Gomera...
Page 78 - Ceeculus hie noster, maluit esse Leo. Quid tibi cum magno commune est, Talpa, Leone ? Non cadit in turpes nobilis ira feras. Ipse licet cupias animos simulare Leonis, Non Lupus hoc genitor, non sinit Ursa parens. Ergo aliud tibi prorsus habendum est, Caecule, nomen ; Nam cuncta ut possis, non potes esse LEO.
Page 146 - Garda was no less pleasing — hills rising in alternate succession met the view — the sometimes disturbed and tumultuous billows of the lake — the charming peninsula of Catullus — vessels with expanded sails, and fishing barks seen approaching from a remote distance, and numerous towns and hamlets seated on the sunny promontories. Beneath, lay Bardoleno, its declivities crowned with olives and orange trees — the hilly summits here embrowned with shady woods, there spreading a green and luxuriant...
Page 7 - CUM referam attonito, Medices, tibi carmina plectro, Ingeniumque tibi serviat omne meum, Quod tegor attrita ridet plebecula veste; Tegmina quod pedibus sint recutita meis; Quod digitos caligae, disrupto carcere, nudos Permittunt coelo liberiore frui; Intima bombycum vacua est quod stamine vestis, Sectaque de caesa vincula fallit ove.
Page 39 - Miscellanies," and not letters. — However, among so many discordant opinions of those who write, or who give rules for writing letters, I do not despair of finding an apology. — One will say, for instance, " these letters are very unlike Cicero's.
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Page 3 - ... of the best and most learned men, respecting this phenomenon, were suddenly cut off; for being at Florence, he was attacked by a fever, which carried him off in 1494, aged only 33. ANGELUS POLITIANUS. THIS very learned man, whom we have had occasion to mention in the...
Page 176 - Thou wak'st to life the torpid mind, To deathful slumbers else consign'd : And pleas'd to share thy tranquil smile. Man with new vigour meets his toil. Betimes the sprightly traveller wakes : The sturdy ox his stall forsakes. Patient his sinewy neck to bow, And bear the yoke, and drag the plough; His fleecy charge the shepherd leads To graze beneath the sylvan shades. Lull'd in his fair one's gentle arms, The lover if thy voice alarms ; If with regret the attractive couch He leaves, and blames thy...