The Golden Days of the Renaissance in Rome: From the Pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul III |
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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 148 - Ange , qui étoit plus sincère que les grands artistes ne sont ordinairement, avoit prié instamment la comtesse Isabelle, après qu'il lui eut fait présent de son Cupidon, et qu'il eut vu l'autre, qu'on ne montrât l'ancien que le dernier, afin que les connoisseurs pussent juger en les voyant, de combien, en ces sortes d'ouvrages, les anciens l'emportent sur les modernes.
Page 184 - Urbiuo died : it is a mark of God's great goodness, and yet a bitter grief to me. I say a mark of God's goodness, because Urbino, after having been the stay of my life, has taught me not only how to meet death without regret, but even to long for it. For twenty-six years I have had him with me, and have always found him perfect and faithful. I had made him a rich man, and looked upon him as the staff and prop of my old age; and he has gone from me, leaving me nothing but the hope of seeing him again...
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 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 219 - In particular, he greatly loved the Marchioness of Pescara, of whose divine spirit he was enamoured, being in return dearly beloved by her. He still preserves many of her letters, breathing honourable and most tender affection, and such as were wont to issue from a heart like hers. He also wrote to her a great number of sonnets, full of wit and sweet longing. She frequently removed from Viterbo and other places, whither she had gone for solace or to pass the summer, and came to Rome with...
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 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 dinal Bibbiena his commission for the cartoons of the tapestries.
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 94 - Caetani no longer exists,1 but the front of the church is still covered with the records of floods, of which I quote one instance : " In the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and thirty, the seventh of the pontificate of Pope Clement VII, on the eighth day of October, the flood reached this line, and the whole city would have perished if the Blessed Virgin had not made the waters recede.