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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 guest rooms and suites 18 restaurants a... ... ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 guest rooms and suites 18 restaurants a... ...n, and political intrigue.” Today a U.S. National Historic Landmark, the Italian Renaissance- inspired exterior and regal interior furnishings have... ...olitical intrigue.” Today a U.S. National Historic Landmark, the Italian Renaissance- inspired exterior and regal interior furnishings have been me...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... cosmopolitan - e-publishing is likely to recover and flourish. This renaissance will probably be aided by the gradual decline of print magazine... ...udden were not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the public domain are no longer there. . . ... ...nguages as hard as I possibly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portu... ...ed for purposes other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardw... ...ffer a substantial diminishing of their share of the market. Even "walled gardens" of content (such as AOL) are at risk. By way of comparison, even...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ot love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as a culturally non-violent Nation… They are now on... ...w one of the most peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter,... ...ch millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they would cave in and pay the money w... ...ely… In China it became The Great Wall. In Europe it became Cathedrals. In Renaissance Italy it became Towers. No matter what form it took: wheth... ...d out how modern European corporate greed began: read histories of the Italian Renaissance. Read about the Medici’s. A banking family. That gave f... ...y European Feudal Dynamic of Lord-Vassal. Which slid into the Later European Renaissance Dynamic of Patron-Supplicant. It was a cultural slide into... ...-energy to work longer, harder, and more importantly: sober. Hundreds of tea gardens were built. Where the lower classes could enjoy this new high... ...tituting the healthier food-drug of coffee and setting up thousands of coffee-gardens all over the Nation… improving the work output, making people ... ...ve each other. The first living example of human Love grew under the hanging gardens of Babylon. The second example of human love grew up in Jesus...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ............................................................ .......................................................................... 15 Italians in Exile............................................................. .... H. Lawrence TWILIGHT IN ITALY By D. H. Lawrence 1916 1916 1916 1916 1916 ITALIANS IN EXILE THE RETURN JOURNEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE ... ...ion are perfect, beyond the range of loneliness or soli- tude? 2 THE LEMON GARDENS THE LEMON GARDENS THE LEMON GARDENS THE LEMON GARDENS THE LEMON GAR... ...is dark, cleaving to the eternal night. It seems to have become so, at the Renaissance, after the Renaissance. In the Middle Ages Christian Europe see... ...re consumes and does not create. This is the soul of the Italian since the Renaissance. In the sunshine he basks asleep, gathering up a vintage into h... ...h has consumed the southern nation, perhaps all the Latin races, since the Renaissance. It is a lapse back, back to the original position, the Mosaic ... ...lass doors on the left, into the domestic courtyard. It was lower than the gardens round it, and the sunshine came through the trellised arches on to ... ...I hear the little slotting noise which tells me they are opening the lemon gardens, a long panel here and there, a long slot of darkness at irregular ...

...Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ......................................................................................4 THE RETURN JOURNEY ..............................................................................4 The Crucifix Across ...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

... 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... ...re, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici the most fantastic featur... ...xiled to Blois), was an open space containing pleasure-grounds and hanging gardens, picturesquely placed among the battlements and unfinished turrets ... ...ong the battlements and unfinished turrets of Francois I.’s chateau. These gardens communicated, by a bridge of a fine, bold construction (which the o... ...ojection into the place des Jesuites. The latter place was included in the gardens of this beautiful royal residence, which had, as we have said, its ... ...a Force mark the transition between what is called the architecture of the Renaissance and that of Henri III., Henri IV ., and Louis XIII. This archae...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...iver, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great “style” to a landscape of which the fe... ...nge. Peace and plenty, however, have succeeded that episode; and among the gardens and vineyards of Touraine it seems, only a legend the more in a cou... ...ich is the work of Michel Colomb, one of the earlier glories of the French Renaissance; it is really a lesson in good taste. Originally placed in the ... ... of the exquisite. Such a piece of work is the purest flower of the French Renaissance; there is nothing more delicate in all Touraine. There is anoth... ...our eye wanders over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away ... ...aving designed this splendid residence has been claimed for several of the Italian artists who early in the sixteenth century came to seek patronage i... ...astions, the terraces, the high-perched windows and balconies, the hanging gardens and dizzy crenellations, of this complicated structure, keep you in... ...rk (in this state of mind) is almost as soft a sensation as descending the Italian side, of the Alps; and to go from New York to Philadelphia is to en... ...place d’armes, which looked for all the world like the piazza of some dead Italian town, empty, sunny, grass-grown, with a row of yellow houses overha...

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...xpedition and secrecy purchase certain valuable specimens of the Dutch and Italian schools as to which he had received private proposals, and then pre... ... in its homely veracity, its artless artfulness, of the works of the early Italian Renaissance. On the pedestal was cut the name—Barnaby Striker, Esq.... ...homely veracity, its artless artfulness, of the works of the early Italian Renaissance. On the pedestal was cut the name—Barnaby Striker, Esq. Rowland... ...ossible stage of a lapse from Olympus. Then they had wandered out into the gardens, and were lounging away the morning under the spell of their magica... ...interfused with a deeper amenity their long evening talks at cafe doors in Italian towns. They had gone almost immediately to Paris, and had spent the... ...she was guiding her fleecy companion through the Villa Reale or the Boboli Gardens with the same superb defi- ance of irony. Roderick went to work and... ...wland’s more luxurious rooms or strolling through streets and churches and gardens. Rowland had found a convenient corner in a stately old palace not ... ...e infinite! Excuse me if I brag a little; all those Italian fellows in the Renaissance used to brag. There was a sensation once common, I am sure, in ...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...o led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by t... ...rms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in his love of dress, had overlaid the coats of all his servants wi... ... Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining monsters than these t... ...t Robert le Diable was to be given at the Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part o... ...n it has now reached, allowing it to hold its own against Florence and the Renaissance— Stidmann was in Chanor’s private room when the army lace manuf... ...om with three windows looking out on a garden like fairyland, one of those gardens that are created in a month with a made soil and transplanted shrub... ...he boulevard 308 Cousin Betty and the street; and between these, with the gardens and court- yards to the front and back, there remained still standi...

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The Moon and Sixpence

By: Somerset Maugham

...ied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well- head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by... ...hed picture on an easel. I gave a little start. He was painting a group of Italian peas- ants, in the costume of the Campagna, lounging on the steps o... ...resist dis- playing his work. He brought out a picture of two curly-headed Italian urchins playing marbles. “Aren’t they sweet?” said Mrs. Stroeve. An... ...ular life, working in the morning, and in the afternoon lounging about the gardens of the Luxembourg or sauntering through the streets. I spent long h... ... their modest fare. Dirk Stroeve flattered himself on his skill in cooking Italian dishes, and I confess that his spaghetti were very much better than... ... of these episodes with the life that I had seen Strickland live in Ashley Gardens when he was occupied with stocks and shares; but I am aware that Ca... ...the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawingroom in Ashley Gardens; the room blazed with fantastic colour , and I wondered if she knew...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... They walked about the streets and the wooded hills, they drove in cabs, they boated on the river, they sipped beer and coffee, after- noons, in the S... ...n property of the organization, like the corps steward or head servant; then there are other dogs, owned by individuals. On a summer afternoon in the ... ...lection often keeps him out when expo- sure to rain or sun is a positive danger for him. Newly ban- daged students are a very common spectacle in the ... ...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... ...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 ... ... managed, the motif is admirably subordinated to the ground tints, and the technique is very fine. The brass nail-heads are in the purest style of the...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...e. The road from the pal- ace door turns to the left, through the spacious gardens, and terminates on the London-road, half a mile from the cathedral.... ...t to have his little fling at Dr Vesey Stanhope and other absentees, whose Italian villas, or enticing London homes, are more tempting than cathe- dra... ... But come, my dear, put on your bonnet, and let us walk round the dear old gardens at the hospital. I have never yet had the heart to go beyond the co... ...ere even less plainly marked than those of her lord. The far niente of her Italian life had entered into her very soul, and brought her to regard a st... ...she was, she had achieved her pur- pose. And then again the more dissolute Italian youths of Milan frequented the Stanhope villa and surrounded her co... ...just at the edge of the town, from which passers-by can look down into the gardens of Hiram’s hospital; and her Charlotte and Mr Slope, who were in ad... ...tised to its state of deca- dence, we think it right also to advert to its renaissance. May it go up and prosper. Whether the salutary reform which ha...

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The Ball at Sceaux

By: Honoré de Balzac

... with a care which her sisters had not enjoyed; painted pretty well, spoke Italian and English, and played the piano brilliantly; her voice, trained b... ...lity come into the world know- ing everything. She could argue fluently on Italian or Flem- ish painting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pro- ... ...argue fluently on Italian or Flem- ish painting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pro- nounced at haphazard on books new or old, and could ex- p... ...table advan- tages in its rotunda, and the beauty of its situation and its gardens. Emilie was the first to express a wish to play at be- ing common f... ...at once that by the merest chance Emilie had met the Unknown of the Sceaux gardens. In spite of the film which age had drawn over his gray eyes, the C... ...he possessor of a heart worthy to be the envy of every woman. They sang an Italian duet with so much expression that the audience applauded enthusiast...

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The Muse of the Department

By: Honoré de Balzac

...mediaevalist. She was also interested in any treasures that dated from the Renaissance, and employed her allies as so many devoted commission agents. ... ...ry; on Clodion, the carver of wood, on Venetian mirrors, on Brustolone, an Italian tenor who was the Michael- Angelo of boxwood and holm oak; on the t... ...; but, while combining his plans of campaign with the insinuating charm of Italian diplo- macy, he also set the Machiavelian springs of the police in ... ... dies hardly danced at all, and most of the company sat down to cards. The gardens of the Duke’s palace were so brilliantly illuminated, that the ladi... ...acy, Rinaldo strikes me as a man of spirit, and his appeal to God is quite Italian. There must have been a touch of local color in this romance. Why, ... ...e to overlook the value of the personality which completed this gem of the Renaissance. So by the time the visitors from Sancerre had taken their leav... ...ved, Madame de la Baudraye and her mother left the men to wander about the gardens. Mon- sieur Gravier then remarked to Monsieur de Clagny: 105 Balza... ...t, she was happy, happy without alarms or hindrances. The vast castle, the gardens, the park, the forest, favored love. Lousteau found in Madame de la...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

... text of French operas sung by Swed- ish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This... ...er rev- erence for her abysmal purity. “We’ll read Faust together … by the Italian lakes …” he thought, somewhat hazily confusing the scene of his pro... ...the wealthy Mingott line, married two of her daughters to “foreigners” (an Italian mar- quis and an English banker), and put the crowning touch to her... ...-story saloons, the wooden green-houses in ragged 20 The Age of Innocence gardens, and the rocks from which goats surveyed the scene, would vanish be... ...,” the essays of P . G. Hamerton, and a won- derful new volume called “The Renaissance” by Walter Pater. He talked easily of Botticelli, and spoke of ... ...fa—acres like them, under glass and in the open, in his matchless terraced gardens at Nice! Jewels—historic pearls: the Sobieski emeralds— sables,—but... ...es, next Wednesday as ever is. Our client wants me to look at some Italian gardens before we settle anything, and has asked me to nip over on the next...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

... hills, and breathe the sea air laden with the fragrance of their splendid gardens. Here these bold specula- 8 Modeste Mignon tors cast off the burde... ...of it. The owner of the villa to which it be- longed,—a mansion with park, gardens, aviaries, hot-houses, 9 Balzac and lawns—took a fancy to put the ... ...all his efforts to pre- vent it, the Chalet) were the orchards and kitchen gardens of the villa. The Chalet, without cows or dairy, is separated from ... ...luminous. It’s arched roof, brilliant with gold and azure like those of an Italian cathedral, sparkled above my head. Melodies such as the angels sang... ...y a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by an entablature which hides an Italian roof, from which rise several stone chimneys masked by carved troph... ...ved fame,—well, he sold his pictures to buy armor and old furniture of the Renaissance and Louis XV.; just now he is seeking political power. Admit th...

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The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton

...he mid-day din- ner was two hours late-and proportionately bad—because the Italian cook was posing for Fulmer. Lansing’s first thought had been that m... ...ly culture, symbolised for Mrs. Hicks in what she called “the court of the Renaissance.” Eldorada, of course, was their chief prophetess; but even the... ...ile their prow slid over inverted palaces, and through the scent of hidden gardens, she leaned against him and murmured, her mind returning to the rec... ...chooses to sur- render herself momentarily to the unwholesome spell of the Italian decadence it is not for me to protest or to criticize. Her intellec... ...idden to ask for an answer; but Nick, knowing the friendly and inquisitive Italian mind, was almost sure that the boy, in the hope of catching a glimp... ... the plumbing,” and “have the privilege of over-looking the Queen Mother’s Gardens.” It was that speech, uttered with beaming aplomb at a din- ner-tab... ...aunter along a street of small pri- 153 Edith Wharton vate houses in damp gardens that led to the Avenue du Bois. She sat down on a bench. Not far of...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...he penetrating keen- ness of a Chicago evening at the end of February. The Italian Grand Opera Company gave one of the most popular pieces of its repe... ...lier, pure as Galahad. Corthell was a beautiful artist-priest of the early Renaissance. Even Jadwin was a merchant prince, a great financial captain. ... ...tone, leaning forward, his hands upon his chest. Though the others sang in Italian, the tenor, a Parisian, used the French book con- tinually, and now... ...rly part of the afternoon, while Laura was in the library reading “Queen’s Gardens,” the special delivery brought Landry Court’s reply. It was one rou... ... cover of night. I have come straight from Tuscany.” “From Tuscany?” “—and gardens and marble pergolas.” “Now why any one should leave Tuscan gardens ... ...e,” she said. “It is a little puzzling,” he answered. “But I fancy that my gardens and pergolas and all the rest had come to seem to me a little—as th... ...nd patent-leather pumps, a cigarette between his fingers, read a volume of Italian verse. “It was the confirmation of the failure of the Argentine cro... ... Filz d’Aymon,” with an illuminated letter of miraculous workmanship; or a Renaissance gon- falon of silk once white but now brown with age, yet in 2...

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Blix

By: Frank Norris

...riscilla and John Alden; and on the mantel itself two bisque figures of an Italian fisher boy and girl kept com- pany with the clock, a huge timepiece... ...hour’s reading in Lafcadio Hearn and the Encyclopedia—on the “Indus- trial Renaissance in Japan.” But the idea of the diver’s story came back to him a... ...f the breeze, that carried with it the smell of trees and flowers from the gardens below them, and the faint fine taint of the ocean from far out be- ...

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ow put boxes of earth in front of her windows, and cultivated those aerial gardens that police regulations forbid, though their vegetable products pur... ...is no opposition of social forces, such as that to which the cities of the Italian States in the Middle Ages owed their vitality. There are no longer ... ... Below the suburb of Rome, lies a vast tract entirely covered with kitchen-gardens, and divided into two sections, which bear the name of upper and lo... ...own across the meadows to an ancient convent named Frapesle, whose English gardens, quite unique in that arrondissement, have received the am- bitious... ...enriched with the precious gifts of the glorious works called forth by the Renaissance. Among the pictures obtained by the Descoings and inherited by ... ...off. After squandering the fortunes of two En- glishmen, a Russian, and an Italian prince, Mademoiselle Esther is now in poverty; give her ten thousan...

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The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

...nspent up the Rue de Seine and as far as the Luxembourg. In the Luxembourg Gardens he pulled up; here at last he found his nook, and here, on a penny ... ...is stage that such an engagement would have tied his hands. The Luxembourg Gardens were incontestably just so adorable at this hour by reason—in addit... ...in the heart of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and on the edge of a cluster of gardens attached to old noble houses. Far back from streets and unsuspected... ...d in his old geography. He was to remember again repeatedly the medal-like Italian face, in which every line was an artist’s own, in which time told o... ... Jewess (which she wasn’t, oh no!) and chattering French, English, German, Italian, anything one would, in a way that made a clean sweep, if not of pr... ...te with- out him, they were consistently settled. Gloriani’s smile, deeply Italian, he considered, and finely inscrutable, had had for him, during din... ...no- tion of the antique, on an old precious medal, some silver coin of the Renaissance; while her slim lightness and brightness, her gaiety, her expre...

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...le apartment into the space of what used to be a salon, and wages war upon gardens, will infallibly react on Parisian manners and morals. We shall soo... ...ell; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constitutes the education of a well-brought- u... ...rner of Colleville’s house, opposite to which was a passage leading to the gardens by the stairway of a little building, the last remains of the fa- m... ...XIII., coming singularly, as it did, between the bad taste of the expiring renaissance and the heavy grandeur of Louis XIV., at its dawn. This transi-... ...re. He had as great a horror for straight courses as the lovers of English gardens show in the lines of their paths. Dutocq, having still a portion of... ...“Was one of my first lodgers. It was there she made ac- quaintance with an Italian, a handsome man, and rich, a political refugee, but one of the loft... ...pot of money for madame, for she managed to get im- mense sums out of that Italian. Well, would you believe that when—being just then in great need—I ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ... 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... ...wed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened ... ...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... ... his hold; and when they got down there he found himself among palaces and gardens so pretty that it was a wonder to see; and then the serpent changed... ... immediately the countless ad- ventures like this, with windows, gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had read of in h... ...ote. He would have been sure to take these depths and dungeons for flowery gardens or the palaces of Galiana, and would have counted upon issuing out ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ... 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... ...wed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened ... ...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... ... his hold; and when they got down there he found himself among palaces and gardens so pretty that it was a wonder to see; and then the serpent changed...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

... spent an afternoon in the grewsome and made-to- order beauties of Sutro’s Gardens; they went through Chinatown, the Palace Hotel, the park museum—whe... ... that once had adorned the banquet hall of an Ital- ian palace of the late Renaissance. It was black with age, and against its sombre surfaces glitter... ... and analysis of erotic conditions—which had just been translated from the Italian. Stephen Lambert and Beatrice disputed over the merits of a Scotch ...

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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

...of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florence as an Italian power under the guidance of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Magnifico. The d... ...old them both. It is impossible to follow here the varying fortunes of the Italian states, which in 1507 were controlled by France, Spain, and Germany... ... his works, Italy found in them the idea of her unity and the germs of her renaissance among the nations of Eu- rope. Whilst it is idle to protest aga... ...in those times the genius of the English more nearly resembled that of the Italian language; to the Englishman of to-day it is not so simple. To take ... ...d behind the house where he resided, and as it was bounded on all sides by gardens, any person could have access to it with- out difficulty. One morni...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to ke... ... whole life of Edinburgh has been sucked into sundry pious edi- fices; the gardens below my windows are steeped in a dif- fused sunlight, and every tr... ...ht, and the still, autumnal foliage. Houses, you know, stand all about our gardens: solid, steady blocks of houses; all look empty and asleep. MONDAY ... ..., I found your letter, and went down and read it on a seat in those Public Gardens of which you have heard already. After lunch, my father and I went ... ...a really admirable appear- ance of offended dignity, she said something in Italian which made everybody laugh much. It was explained to me that she ha... ... me out; the story is to be called When the Devil W as Well: scene, Italy, Renaissance; colour, purely imaginary of course, my own unregenerate idea o... ...e been still in the house since I wrote, and I have worked. I finished the Italian story; not well, but as well as I can just now; I must go all over ...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...d gai- ety, at the carefully calculated hour, the tall trees of the public gardens, going up to the right; the reddish stone of the baths—or were they... ...ome days before, reading books like Ranke’s History of the Popes, Symonds’ Renaissance, Motley’s Rise of the Dutch Re- public and Luther’s Table Talk.... ...ived. If it weren’t for that piece of paper you’d be like the Irish or the Italians or the Poles, but particularly the Irish ….” And she laid one fing... ... don and to beg her also to let Edward take her very markedly out into the gardens that night. She said herself, when Mrs Maidan came rather wistfully... ...mmendations; and she would wish me good night as if she were a cinquecento Italian lady saying good-bye to her lover. And at ten o’clock of the next m... ...hout her remedy and, having felt an attack coming on whilst she was in the gardens, she had run in to get the nitrate in order, as quickly as possible... ...m. A tall, fair, stiffly upright man of fifty, he was walking away with an Italian baron who had had much to do with the Bel- gian Congo. They must ha...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...g forgotten how to throb, even when a woman’s dowry was the stake. A young Italian, olive- hued and dark-haired, sat at one end, with his elbows on th... ...it? The jaded elders, the fossilized waiters, the onlookers, the fanatical Italian him- self, felt an indefinable dread at sight of the stranger. Is h... ...wakened was so great that the old gamesters laid nothing upon it; only the Italian, inspired by a gambler’s enthusiasm, smiled suddenly at some though... ... Rue Saint Honore, took the direc- tion of the T uileries, and crossed the gardens with an unde- cided step. He walked as if he were in some desert, e... ...The Magic Skin Cairo, some inlaid pottery, and some carved ebony—genu- ine Renaissance work, just come in, and of perfect beauty.” In the stranger’s f...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...d ignorance among the monks of that age, the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the lofty minds. Rabelais threw himself into... ...y dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is Italy withou... ...ing success of Aretino must not be forgotten, nor the licence of the whole Italian comic theatre of the sixteenth century. The Calandra of Bibbiena, w... ...th ordinary French. It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to French, would have lent it... ... J. Tenhoorn. The name attached to it, Claudio Gallitalo (Claudius French- Italian) must certainly be a pseudonym. Only a Dutch scholar could identify... ...ks,—of threshers, who leave no garlic, scallions, leeks, nor onions in our gardens, by the au- thority of Thestilis in Virgil,—and of the millers, who... ... the Aphrodisian tennis-court at all times fitting, as if the stiff god of gardens were not favourable to me. I pray thee, favour me so much as to bel... ... orchards, fields, vineyards, woods, arable lands, pastures, ponds, mills, gardens, nurseries, oxen, cows, sheep, goats, swine, hogs, asses, horses, h...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...hematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for several centuries before the Renaissance, was, roughly speaking, all derived from Latin treatises ultima... ...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... ...n works lieth every soul in pledge. But they of God’s right hand In their gardens shall ask of the wicked;– “What hath cast you into Hell-fire?” 6 Th... ... the next world. Ah! did they but know it. Verily, for the God-fearing are gardens of delight in the pres ence of their Lord. Shall we then deal with ... ...in, And grapes and healing herbs, And the olive and the palm, And enclosed gardens thick with trees, And fruits and herbage, For the service of yourse...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...III III It was Saturday morning. Directed by the corporal, a bandy- legged Italian who even on the army diet managed to keep a faint odour of garlic a... ...orporal Valori, who is this man?” “The name’s Andrews, sergeant,” said the Italian corporal with an obsequious whine in his voice. The officer address... ...ed a little. To Fuselli he seemed to speak like an Englishman. “Fuselli.” “Italian parentage, I presume?” “Yes,” said Fuselli sullenly, dragging one o... ...lent or tossed about groan- ing in the rows of narrow cots that filled the Renaissance hall. In the yellow glow of the electric lights, looking beyond... ... col- ors mingle in a pigeon’s breast feathers. They passed the leaf- less gardens of the T uileries on one side, and the great inner Courts of the Lo... ...en walked slowly past the window of the restaurant in the direction of the gardens. Her ivory face and slender body and her very dark eyes sent a sudd... ...as he looked at her. The black erect figure disappeared in the gate of the gardens. Andrews got to his feet suddenly. “I’ve got to go,” he said in a s... ... mist of new leaves. Had they really lived more vividly, the people of the Renaissance? Andrews could al- most see men with plumed hats and short cloa...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, he says, the love of healthy women for the... ...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... ..., and the coun- try at large was keen for the new learning. But though the renaissance had begun, it was impeded and dangerously threatened by the pow... ...les was to know from the first all favours of nature and art. His father’s gardens were the admiration of his contemporaries; his castles were situate... ...ary majority would prefer to remain where they were. Many would choose the Renaissance; many some stately and simple period of Grecian life; and still... ...ld have other grounds of intimacy with Villon. A room looking upon Windsor gardens is a different matter from Villon’s dun- geon at Meun; yet each in ...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

...a restaurant in the Boulevard Saint Michel, and were sauntering now in the gardens of the Luxembourg. Dr Porhoët walked with stooping shoulders, his h... ...ith water. They were made in five weeks, by the Count von Küffstein and an Italian mystic and rosicrucian, the Abbé Geloni. The bottles were closed wi... ...as burdened with the decadence of Rome and with the passionate vice of the Renaissance; and it was tortured, too, by all the introspec tion of this l... ...f heavy per fumes of the scent merchants, and drowsy odours of the Syrian gardens. The fragrance of the East filled her nostrils. And all these thing... ...ent her head and fled from before him. T o get home she passed through the gardens of the Luxembourg, but her legs failed her, and in exhaustion she s...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed... ...ers. CHAPTER VII “Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione.” —Italian Proverb. MR. CASAUBON, as might be expected, spent a great deal of ... ...at one time. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance-Correggiosities were pain- fully inexplicable, staring into the... ...uit you, Dorothea; for the cot- tages are like a row of alms-houses—little gardens, gilly-flow- ers, that sort of thing.” “Y es, please,” said Dorothe... ...r, and bowed his thanks for Mr. Brooke’s invitation. “We will turn over my Italian engravings together,” contin- ued that good-natured man. “I have no... ... had spread had been a farm-house, but was now surrounded with the private gardens of the townsmen. We get the fonder of our houses if they have a phy... ...cular morning a chill wind was blowing the blossoms from the sur- rounding gardens on to the green mounds of Lowick church- yard. Swiftly moving cloud...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed ... ...—not to hurt others. Chapter VII. “Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione.” —Italian Proverb. M r. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of... ...at one time. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance Correggiosities were painfully inexplicable, staring into the m... ... suit you, Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms houses—little gardens, gilly flowers, that sort of thing.” “Yes, please,” said Dorothea, l... ...r, and bowed his thanks for Mr. Brooke’s invitation. “We will turn over my Italian engravings together,” continued that good natured man. “I have no e... ... had spread had been a farm house, but was now surrounded with the private gardens of the townsmen. We get the fonder of our houses if they have a phy... ...cular morning a chill wind was blowing the blossoms from the sur rounding gardens on to the green mounds of Lowick churchyard. Swiftly moving clouds ...

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