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...The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 1...

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... the king. But the persistent craft and dissimulation of the woman and the Italian, which she had never failed to employ, was incompatible with the de... ...l power, may well have been instigated in part by such scenes, of which an Italian girl of nine years of age was assuredly not ignorant. The rise of A... ...reat power are laid. In France we blamed Napoleon when he made use of that Italian genius for craft which was bred in his bone,— though in his case it... ...nce, accompanied by a vast number of ladies and gentlemen, both French and Italian. “The Holy Father having arrived in the midst of this com- pany at ... ...enice, Ferrara, and others; also all the princes and noble strangers, both Italian and German, who were then residing at his court in great numbers. T... ... alchemist lived to be one hundred and thirty years old,—an age which some biographers give to Marion de Lorme. He must have heard from the Ruggieri t...

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...ion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Moham... ... her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. The telegrams of ... ...in five minutes’ time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them a... ...ing little suns distributed over it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that th... ...day night the life of the President of the French Republic was taken by an Italian assassin. Last night a mob surrounded our hotel, shouting, howling,... ... a thing about him. All the rest of his vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theor... ...he surmisers surmise that he did not keep a library. It is surmised by the biographers that the young Shakespeare got his vast knowledge of the law an... ... have beens, and the rest of that ton of plaster of Paris out of which the biographers have built the colossal brontosaur which goes by the Stratford ... ...singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, states men, generals, admirals...

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...I had all around me, in the intervals of the performance, the music of the Italian language talked by Italian women—for the gal- lery was usually crow... ...anguage talked by Italian women—for the gal- lery was usually crowded with Italians—and I listened with a pleasure such as that with which Weld the tr... ...For such a purpose, therefore, it was an advantage to me that I was a poor Italian scholar, reading it but little, and not speaking it at all, nor und... ...ader not at all more so than Marinus in his Life of Proclus, or many other biographers and autobiographers of fair reputation. This pleasure, I have s...

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...osts which gathered in the early years of the Revolution on the German and Italian frontiers of France. Yet were these hosts applied, under the perfec... ...pect of ransom; a British nobleman’s son from death or the consequences of Italian barbarity; or a prince, the brother of Napoleon, from having the se... ...by the later Caesars; the prevalent features of their faces are, it seems, Italian; their language is power- fully veined with Latin; their dress diff... ...ater literature is to the south unintelligible. No Frenchman, Spaniard, or Italian, at all comprehends the grand poetic feel- ing employed and nursed ... ...s an interest to which the whole race is deaf and blind. A Frenchman or an Italian (for the Italian, in many features of Gallic insensibility, will be... ...cable indulgence with which this scandalous partition is treated by Pope’s biographers. It is simply the lowest act of self-degradation ever connected...

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...sionate and vindictive ambition, placed himself and his reti- nue upon the Italian soil; and, as if by inspiration from Heaven, in one moment involved... ...evolt the feelings of sober thinkers. Except, perhaps, in some chapters of Italian history, as, for example, among the most profligate of the Papal ho... ...sually distinguished by the title of Pius, is thus described by one of his biographers:— ”He was externally of remarkable beauty; eminent for his mora... ...r superior to those drawn from a population of sedentary habits. 2dly, The Italian colonies, one and all, performed the functions which in our day are... ... no one military engine in the whole armory of Rome availed so much as her Italian colonies. The other use of these colonies, as frontier garrisons, o... ...ng through a very long vineyards. And though this service, as regarded the Italian colo- nies, was greatly defeated in succeeding times by the ruinous...

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...gend, too, but I should not feel justified in repeat- ing it because I doubted the truth of some of its minor de- tails. Along in this region a multit... ...a. It did no other harm, but we took to the water just the same. It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings is done mai... ...ed mob of miscreants that was rag- ing around the palace. He meant to be kingly, but he was 137 A Tramp Abroad only the female saint once more. Some ... ...ots three hun- dred years ago, and she has hardly lost all of her saintship yet. Martyrdom made a saint of the trivial and foolish Marie Antoinette, a... ...undertaker-furniture and paying no sort of attention to his frequent and humble little efforts to do something for her comfort. Then the train halted ... ...n must surely read a good deal, for it has more book- stores to the square rod than any other town I know of. And it has its own share of military fol... ...lling all the information I could about Italy, from tourists. The tourists were all agreed upon one thing—one must expect to be cheated at every turn ...

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...ry of his early married life vies in obscurity with that of his youth. His biographers are not agreed among themselves; and in the same degree that he... ...nd pleaded very ingeniously for me in my presence against another (also an Italian) who opposed my sentiments.” Such is what passed between Montaigne ... ...Montaigne’s arrival at the first French town on his homeward route, are in Italian, be- cause he wished to exercise himself in that language. 19 Mont... ..., and conscience. Oh foolish and base or- nament!” Florio, 1613, p. 3]—The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name—[La tristezza]—malignity; fo... ... of his oxen; the soldier of his wounds; the shep- herd of his flocks.”—An Italian translation of Propertius, ii. i, 43] For it often falls out that, ... ...NTRY Y Y Y Y I WAS OFTEN, when a boy, wonderfully concerned to see, in the Italian farces, a pedant always brought in for the fool of the play, and th...

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... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ...con- temporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced to make brick without straw, should have r... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...avedra, a cousin, no doubt, who was a source of great embarrassment to the biographers. That he was a student neither at Salamanca nor at Alcala is be... ...t portion of “Persiles and Sigismunda.” He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the off- spring of an amour, as som... ...mysterious Magdalena de Sotomayor calling herself his sister, for whom his biographers cannot account, and a servant-maid. Meanwhile “Don Quixote” had... ...lot bravely and cheerfully. Was it an unhappy life, that of Cervantes? His biographers all tell us that it was; but I must say I doubt it. It was a ha... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b...

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...ng and nuzzling at the flanks of the deep-sea tramps, while hay barges and Italian whitehalls came and went at every turn. A Stock- ton River boat wen... ... and your tailor, your pew rent and your club dues, and you’ll be what the biographers call ‘a respect- able member of the community.’” “Did you ever ...

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...n, his attention became fixed. The book contained a printed letter that an Italian physician had written upon the very subject about .which Cotton Mat... ... be owned that your correctness entitles you to be held up as a pattern to biographers. Nevertheless, there are a few omissions which I should be glad...

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... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ...a contemporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced to make brick without straw, should have r... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...avedra, a cousin, no doubt, who was a source of great embarrassment to the biographers. That he was a student neither at Salamanca nor at Alcala is be... ...t portion of “Persiles and Sigismunda.” He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the off- spring of an amour, as som... ...mysterious Magdalena de Sotomayor calling herself his sister, for whom his biographers cannot account, and a ser- vant-maid. Meanwhile “Don Quixote” h... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b... ...ack the liveries they had given merely for show.” “What spilorceria!—as an Italian would say,” said Don Quixote; “but for all that, consider yourself ... ...prepossessing appearance and a certain gravity of look) “has translated an Italian book into our Spanish tongue, and I am setting it up in type for th...

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... strangula- tion or naturally is of no consequence — the house had been sold, then abandoned, and lastly isolated from the other houses of the street.... ...ted by the royal mouth. This double favor, of a strangulation and a macaroni, conferred upon the triangular house, gave poor Cropoli a fancy to grace ... ... sonable dowry by showing them what there was beneath the slab of the chimney. These two points accomplished, he went in search of the painter who was... ...ici,’ “ said Pittrino, supplicatingly. “No,” replied Cropole, firmly. “I have got an idea, a sublime idea — your picture shall appear, and my legend l... ...ken good care that it should not be brilliant. “Y ou have nevertheless no intention,” replied Monsieur, “to cloister them or make them bourgeoises?” ... ...t. He was thirteen years older than Louis XIV ., his future master. Of middle height, rather lean than otherwise, he had deep-set eyes, a mean appeara...

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...dead weight on the progress of the narrative. T o avoid this dilemma, some biographers have used the letters of the personages concerned, or liberal e... ...d there, I cannot tell. The hand in which they were written is a beautiful Italian manuscript:— As lords their labourers’ hire delay, Fate quits our t...

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... timid mind, he was emboldened by the countenance of Boileau. Of the elder Italian authors, such as Ariosto, and, a fortiori, Dante, be knew absolutel... ...ng the situation of Worcester, impossible. Strange it is, that, whilst all biographers have worked with so much zeal upon the most barren dates or mos... ...tural insinuation. For our parts, we should have been the last amongst the biographers to unearth any forgotten scandal, or, after so vast a lapse of ... ... dialogue. Among the many defects and infirmities of the French and of the Italian drama, indeed, we may say of the Greek, the dialogue proceeds alway... ...l other writers, Dante, 70 Biographical Essays suppose, or Anosto amongst Italians, Camoens amongst those of Portugal, Schiller amongst Germans, howe... ...t ought to be mentioned, though unac- countably overlooked by all previous biographers, that one of Pope’s anonymous enemies, who hated him personally... ...divided from all direct advantage. At all events, the researches of Pope’s biographers have not been able to trace him farther back in the paternal li... ...h some of his best passages. V oltaire was, therefore, certainly wrong. Of Italian literature, meantime, Pope knew little or noth- ing; and simply bec... ...read him only in En- glish; and it is certain that he could not take up an Italian author, either in prose or verse, for the unaffected amuse- ment of...

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...a place I come (Note: Beatrice. I use this word, as it is pronounced in the Italian, as consisting of four syllables, of which the third is a long on... ...me Of all the people, who their dwelling make In that fair region, where th’ Italian voice Is heard, since that thy neighbours are so slack To punish,... ...perdona, Che non sia al fin sempre amato chi ama. Indeed many of the Italian poets have repeated this verse. v. 105. Caina.] The place to whi... ...st. 76. v. 52. Ciacco.] So called from his inordinate appetite: Ciacco, in Italian, signifying a pig. The real name of this glutton has not been tra... ...criptions, tom. vii. 296. His Tesoretto, one of the earliest productions of Italian poetry, is a curious work, not unlike the writings of Chaucer in ... ...rd imputation of his having dealt in the magical art is well known; and his biographers take some pains to clear him of it. Scriptores Ordinis Prae...

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...ging, thus began, As one who joys in kindness: “In that part Of the deprav’d Italian land, which lies Between Rialto, and the fountain springs Of Bren... ...hich answers to that of Palmer in our language. Nor is it probable that the Italians, who lived so near the time, were misinformed in an occurrence... ...tation of Folco must rest on the mention made of him by the more fortunate Italians. v. 43 The crowd.] The people who inhabited the tract of country... ...rd imputation of his having dealt in the magical art is well known; and his biographers take some pains to clear him of it. Scriptores Ordinis Prae... .... Since that period, two impressions of the whole of the Divina Commedia, in Italian, have made their appearance in this country. It is not necessary ...

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...ircumstantial story told on the subject by Murphy, the first of Fielding’s biographers. This legend was that Fielding, having succeeded by the death o... ...ne the works of a comic history painter, with those performances which the Italians call Caricatura, where we shall find the true excellence of the fo... ...riginally afforded the pattern. In this light I have always regarded those biographers who have recorded the actions of great and worthy persons of bo... ...of knowledge in the Oriental tongues; and could read and translate French, Italian, and Spanish. He had applied many years to the most severe study, a... ...lt them in his defence, had not some awe of the company, especially of the Italian traveller, who was a person of great dignity, withheld his rage. Wh... ...contending parties; and the traveller went to his repast, crying, “ As the Italian poet says— ‘Je voi very well que tutta e pace, So send up d... ...ief discovered any part of her neck, a whiteness appeared which the finest Italian paint would be unable to reach. Her hair was of a chesnut brown, an... ...rks of those who celebrate the lives of great men, and are commonly called biographers, as the others should indeed be termed topographers, or chorogr... ...here the person, who is both a rogue and an honest man, lived. Now with us biographers the case is different; the facts we deliver may be relied on, t...

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...he most liberal com- munications by his friends; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this, with more advantages; in... ...or by what means, he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian, I do not know; but he was so well skilled in them, as to be suffic... ...rtainly is not suited to a series of grave and moral discourses; which the Italians have liter- ally, but ludicrously translated by Il Vagabondo; and ... ...their own abilities, and of the abilities of each other. The General spoke Italian, and Dr. Johnson English, and under- stood one another very well, w... ... the door waiting to carry Mrs. and Miss Thrale, and Signor Baretti, their Italian master, to Bath. This was not shewing the attention which might hav... ... upon indifferent subjects. He seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour, on which, I flattered myself, he and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. John...

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... of us are, by its consequences, to gloss the matter over, with too polite biographers, is to do the work of the wrecker disfiguring beacons on a peri... ... sight in the pressure of new information and the apologetical ceremony of biographers. Mr. Carlyle made an inimitable bust of the poet’s head of gold... ...d a considerable, but not authoritative, sense of the proprieties. Of what biographers refer to daintily as “her somewhat voluptuous style of beauty,”... ...ost his habits of industry, and formed the habit of pleasure. Apologetical biographers assure us of the contrary; but from the first, he saw and recog... ...f accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the J, which has...

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...rm; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long ago among the masters of Italian painting, and the fathers of Poetry in England; we say that we trac... ...hiefly in introducing him to a wider circle of German, French, English and Italian poetry. But the person who had the strongest effect on Goethe’s men... ...ment at Weimar. This work is the cause of much embarrassment to the poet’s biographers. Where it ought to be the most trust- worthy source of informat... ...voted a great part of his time to a description of his travels, written in Italian, the copying and correction of which he slowly and accurately compl... ... completed, in several parcels, with his own hand. A lively old teacher of Italian, called Giovinazzi, was of service to him in this work. The old man... ... the necessity of acquiring some knowl- edge and a slight readiness in the Italian tongue. Generally we passed all our leisure hours with my grand- mo...

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...im less by 63 Thomas de Quincey much than the one he succeeded: he had an Italian appear- ance, and he wore an air of Italian subtlety and dissimula-... ...of Europe observed him. But now, up and down Europe, from the deep blue of Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow,... ...the inevitable catastrophe could be delayed no longer. The com- mander, an Italian named Morandi, was a brave man; any fate appeared better than that ... ...e of the vessel Napoleon read an augury of the fate which had befallen the Italian territory. Considered as a dependency of France, he felt certain th... ... and critical through every stage, it was the pointed contrast between his Italian campaigns and 235 Thomas de Quincey those of his successors which ... ... of the case stand thus between the parlies: Kant, it is agreed by all his biographers, ate only once a day; for as to his breakfast, it was nothing m...

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...owever, is full of difficulties. The Arabic is a lan- guage in which, like Italian, it is almost impossible not to rhyme.” Pilgr. ii. 78. 31 The Kora... ...entry upon the prophetic office, Muhammad had made about 40 converts. Some biographers refer to this passage, and not to Sura lxiv. I, as the first ca...