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...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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... 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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... 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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... 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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...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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... 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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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... 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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... 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 ...