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...Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent mos...

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...Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent mos...

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...ratislava, Slovakia · Budapest, Hungary · Pecs, Hungary · Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina · Dubrovnik, Croatia · Split, Croatia · Rome, Italy · Genoa, Italy · Nice, France · Monaco · Nimes, France · Barcelona, Spain · Valencia, Spain · Seville, Spain · Lagos, Portugal · Cascais, Portugal · Porto, Portugal · Lisbon, Portugal...

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... Italian and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spain. He was born in Genoa, Italy, no one knows when. He did "discover" America, the ...

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...oorstin notes that prior to the thirteenth-century merchants from Venice, Genoa, Pisa, or Paris prospered selling luxuries, such as sleek Chinese si...

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...oorstin notes that prior to the thirteenth-century merchants from Venice, Genoa, Pisa, or Paris prospered selling luxuries, such as sleek Chinese si...

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...is story. Perhaps Francesco is mine. When I visited Polo’s prison cell in Genoa someone showed me the painstaking calendar he had chiseled into the ... ...e...I have had many friends. I had many friends in Florence, Milan, Rome, Genoa, and Venice. I shall name a few: Marco d’Oggiono, Vitelli, Tomaso Ma... ...etter took four months to reach me—a hundred and twenty days! She died in Genoa, on the 2nd or 3rd of July. I can’t make out the date. The King kno...

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...nury by these events and by the Black Death of 1347. It fought with Venice against Genoa only to lose tax revenues hitherto paid by the Genoese. Fo...

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...astership of the sea until near the end of the i4th century when in a war with Genoa she was brought to the verge of ruin. But from the calamities whi... ... safely to their country. In the year 1298 Venice became engaged in a war with Genoa, in which "Marco enlisted, and in a naval battle which occurred b... ...wo powers soon after, Polo was taken prisoner, and remained in the fortress of Genoa until peace was declared between the two republics, in July of th...

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...nter on the inquiry now. During my twelve months’ occupation of a house at Genoa, I never found that authorities constitutionally jealous were distrus... ...being there at all, was, as you know, that they were going to live in fair Genoa for a year; and that the head of the family purposed, in that space o... ..., treading down the darkness of that Infernal Well. CHAPTER III AVIGNON TO GENOA GOBLIN, HAVING SHOWN Les Oubliettes , felt that her great Coup wa... ...aint with oranges, to the Marie Antoinette , a handsome steamer bound for Genoa, lying near the mouth of the harbour. By and by , the carriage, that... ... which more in its 25 Charles Dickens place) nearly all day. We could see Genoa before three; and watching it as it gradually developed its splendid ... ...ould ever come to have an attachment for the very stones in the streets of Genoa, and to look back upon the city with affection as connected with many... ...reathe after this long winded journey. 26 Pictures from Italy CHAPTER IV GENOA AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS of such a place as Alb... ...BOURHOOD THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can har... ...on: is in one of the most splendid situations imaginable. The noble bay of Genoa, with the deep blue Mediterranean, lies stretched out near at hand; m...

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... he had hired an old place on the Riviera, at an easy distance from my city, Genoa, on the road to Nice. Did I know that place? Yes; I told him I knew... ... of San Lorenzo, how it lightened! We all know what an old palace in or near Genoa is how time and the sea air have blotted it how the drapery p...

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...o the boy in the street. In 1836, when the Sardinian Court was residing at Genoa, two Parisians, more or less famous, could fancy themselves still in ... ... well-known lighthouse, which is to be seen in all the keep- sake views of Genoa. This palazzo is one of the magnificent villas on which Genoese noble... ...lic was a power. If the early night is beautiful anywhere, it surely is at Genoa, after it has rained as it can rain there, in torrents, all the morni... ...n, and was returning by the Cornice road to Marseilles. She had stopped at Genoa, again on the landscape painter’s account. The Consul-Gen- eral had, ... ...s account. The Consul-Gen- eral had, of course, wished to do the honors of Genoa, be- fore the arrival of the Court, to a woman whose wealth, name, an... ...ition recommend her no less than her talents. Camille Maupin, who knew her Genoa down to its smallest chapels, had left her landscape painter to the c... ... Genoese heiress. A Genoese heiress! the expression might raise a smile at Genoa, where, in consequence of the inability of daughters to inherit, a wo... ...- ous events of history. This, at any rate, was the opinion of the town of Genoa, where, to some women, the extreme reserve, the melancholy of the Fre... ...nity: the sposo was as secret as the grave—so secret that the merchants of Genoa chose to regard the young Consul’s attitude as premeditated, and the ...

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...t, got some coffee, and having drunk it decided to continue his journey to Genoa. The state of being carried passively on- ward postponed action and d... ...e, instead of clearing his thoughts, had merely accelerated their pace. At Genoa he wandered about in the hot streets, bought a cheap suit-case and so... ...cks—or any other member of the party—to make no allusion to my presence in Genoa. I wish,” said Mr. Buttles with simplicity, “to preserve the strict- ... ...ng his hours in the train and his aimless trampings through the streets of Genoa. In that squirrel-wheel of a world of his and Susy’s you had to keep ... ...oncession to concession …. The noises of a hot summer night in the port of Genoa would have kept the most care-free from slumber; but though Nick lay ... ...tared at her blankly, too bewildered even to wonder how she knew he was in Genoa; and she continued, with the kind of shy imperiousness that always ma... ...he other two letters, which came together in the afternoon, were both from Genoa. Susy scanned the addresses and fell upon the one in her husband’s wr... ... were in Venice—the day he didn’t come back to din- ner—he had gone off to Genoa to meet them. I suppose he intends to marry Coral.” Strefford receive... ...ree weeks since he had left her, and she had had no word but his note from Genoa. She had concluded that, foreseeing the probability of her leaving V ...

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...tic re- publics were all equal, the title of Prince was, in fact, given at Genoa to a member of the Doria family, who were sover- eigns of the princip... ...inted. But alas! in this fairy palace, not unlike that of the Peschieri at Genoa, the Duchess Cataneo obeyed the edicts of Victorine and the Paris fas... ...rona; the Geremei and the Lomelli at Bologna; the Fieschi and the Doria at Genoa; the patricians and the populace, the Senate and tribunes of the Roma...

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...was born in Corsica,” he replied; “but I was brought, while very young, to Genoa, and as soon as I was old enough for military service I enlisted.” Th... ...ey set fire to the house.” “I do not know,” replied Luigi. “I was taken to Genoa when six years old, and given in charge of an old man named Colonna. ...

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...e narrow deck, I grieved to leave him there when the good confraternita at Genoa paid my ran- som. Having learnt to speak il T edesco, and being no lo... ...lordliness, “make me not a spoiler.” “If the signorini should ever come to Genoa,” continued the trader, “and would honour Gian Battista dei Battiste ... ...elf—as great a potentate within his own walls as the Doge of V enice or of Genoa, or perhaps greater, because less jealously hampered. In this dignifi... ...ne. Hast any designs?” Ebbo explained that he thought of making his way to Genoa to consult the merchant Gian Battista dei Battiste, whose description... ...nd Moors, but Friedel’s impulse guided him, and he further thought that at Genoa he should learn the way to deal with either variety of infidel. Theur... ...“So is it well that this should be the last sitting. I am to set forth for Genoa in another week. If I cannot get letters from the Kaisar, I shall go ... ...d old Wolfgang! But what of Gian? Hold,—did not he, when I was with him at Genoa, tell me a story of being put into a dungeon in a mountain fortress i... ...ed, caused his fet- ters to be struck off, and shipped him off at once for Genoa, 256 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest with orders to the captain to cons...

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...ich paves the desert streets of Venice laughs In light, and music; widowed Genoa wan By moonlight spells ancestral epitaphs, Murmuring, ‘Where is Dori... ...ure they loved best. Captain Roberts, R.N., undertook to build the boat at Genoa, where he was also occupied in building the “Bolivar” for Lord Byron.... ...of Porto Venere, which proved at length to be Shelley’s boat. She had left Genoa on Thursday last, but had been driven back by the prevailing bad wind... ...At this time we received let- ters announcing the arrival of Leigh Hunt at Genoa. Shelley was very eager to see him. I was confined to my room by seve...

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... Signior Baptista may remember me 2184 Neere twentie yeares a goe in Genoa. 2185 Tra. Where we were lodgers, at the Pegasus, 2186 T...

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...wever, you may dimly discern through a pane of glass in a little street in Genoa. A more chaste-eyed madonna than Piola’s does not exist but compared ... ...view; telling how he had been welcomed by the greatest Italian families of Genoa, T urin, Milan, Flo- rence, V enice, Rome, and Naples. This flatterin...

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...e line that to the experienced eye of a sailor alone revealed the coast of Genoa the proud, and Leghorn the commercial, that he gazed. It was at the b... ...n he had made up his mind as to his future plans. Then Dantes departed for Genoa. At the moment of his arrival a small yacht was under trial in the ba... ...ere to be constructed. The following day Dantes sailed with his yacht from Genoa, under the inspection of an immense crowd drawn together by curiosity... ... had proved her- self a first-class sailer, and had come the distance from Genoa in thirty-five hours. Dantes had carefully noted the general appearan... ...continued Franz, “venture to build a vessel designed for such a purpose at Genoa?” Alexandre Dumas 267 “I did not say that the owner was a smuggler,”... ... was to await you at Nice?” “Precisely so; and it conveyed me from Nice to Genoa, from Genoa to Turin, from Turin to Chambery, from Chambery to Pont-d...