Cities of Northern and Central Italy, Volume 1Daldy, Isbister & Company, 1876 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
1st Chapel adorned Albergo ancient Andrea angels Antonio arcades arches artist Baptist Baveno beautiful beneath Bergamo Bishop Brescia brick building built campanile Campi Carlo Castello castle Cathedral centre century choir Christ church colour contains Corso Cremona curious door Doria Duomo Emanuele entrance excursion façade famous figures Francesco frescoes front garden Gaudenzio Ferrari Genoa Giovanni Girolamo Giulio Giulio Campi Giulio Romano Gothic grand high altar hills Hotel inscription Italian Italy Lago lake Lombard Lorenzo Lotto lovely Luini Madonna and Child Maggiore magnificent Mantua marble Maria Milan Monte monument Monza Moretto mountains noble Padua painted palace Palazzo pass Paul Veronese Pavia Piazza picture picturesque Pietro pillars Porta Porto Portrait rich Roman Sacristy saints Sala sarcophagus Saviour Savona Scala sculpture side stands statue street Titian tomb tower town Transept Turin valley Venetian Venice Verona Vicenza village Virgin and Child Visconti Vittorio Waldensian walls
Brani popolari
Pagina 295 - Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do. with their death, bury their parents
Pagina 99 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Pagina 97 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Pagina 229 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. 700 Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive : Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung. Immortal Vida : on whose honour'd brow The Poet's bays and Critic's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame...
Pagina 97 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Pagina 108 - Of the southern tower the upper part must have been rebuilt at the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, but with a certain adaptation to the earlier work, the mid-wall shaft being still used.
Pagina 194 - Sublime, but neither bleak nor bare Nor misty, are the mountains there, — Softly sublime, profusely fair ! Up to their summits clothed in green And fruitful as the vales between They lightly rise And scale the skies, And groves and gardens still abound, For where no shoot Could else take root The peaks are shelved and terraced round...
Pagina 97 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Pagina 251 - Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto ! o quid solutis est beatius curis ? cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.
Pagina 361 - Tis solitude should teach us how to die ; It hath no flatterers ; vanity can give No hollow aid ; alone — man with his God must strive : XXXIV.