Journal of a Tour in Italy: And Also in Part of France and Switzerland ... from October, 1828, to September, 1829 ...Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1830 - 12 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 134 - Boorsi, an old and devout man, was highly scandalized at the cursing and swearing of his companions. Therefore, as their elder, he proposed that he who should hereafter take God's or the Virgin's name in vain, should be mulcted to the amount of a crazia (three farthings ;) and that the said crazia should be dropped through a small hole into a certain box, so that an end might be put to such a vain and sinful conversation.
الصفحة 46 - And now the chapel's silver bell you hear, That summons you to all the pride of prayer ; Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven.
الصفحة 133 - Guard!" to the company. Those who contend we excel our forefathers in humanity and charity, will be surprised to hear that the Compagnia della Misericordia, the most conspicuous, even in the present day, for those virtues, has existed for nearly six hundred years within the walls of Florence. It was established in 1240; and its origin was extremely curious. At that period of the Republic, when the citizens were acquiring immense profits from the manufacture of...
الصفحة 134 - ... assistance; and we will also carry to the churches the bodies of such as may fall down dead, or be slain, or be drowned ; and let us agree that for each several journey of this sort, the porters shall receive a givlia (sixpence) from the box.
الصفحة 134 - ... (sixpence) from the box." This not only met with approbation, but each individual took an oath to observe it. Their labours began, and they pursued them with so much diligence and charity (says their chronicler) that every man in the city greatly applauded these porters, sometimes offering them three giuli, as a present, for a single journey ; but this the old man, Piero, would not allow, bidding them perform their duty, cheerfully and without bribes, and to wait for their farther reward in eternity.
الصفحة 233 - Unfaded yet, but yet unfed below, No more to mother earth or the green stem shall owe. Then two fair vests, of wondrous work and cost, Of purple woven, and with gold emboss'd, For ornament the Trojan hero brought, Which with her hands Sidonian Dido wrought.
الصفحة 134 - Piero then, reminded them that, for the benefit of their souls, the contents of the box ought to be employed in acts of charity, and made the following proposal : " Let us," said he, " purchase with part of this money six litters, to serve for the six divisions of the city, and let us in turns attend with them. Thus we shall be in readiness to carry to their houses, or to the hospital, all those who may be taken with sudden illness, or who fall from a scaffolding, or otherwise be grievously injured...
الصفحة 135 - ... tending to personal vanity from the pure benevolent feeling. No thanks are here due except to the Society in a body. There are no anniversary dinners, no toasts and sentiments with three times three, no blazing accounts in the newspapers of their activity, heroism, and charity. All goes on quietly, modestly. The Brothers know how much they are beloved, and are content without a display of their influence. Every mark of respect is however paid to them ; the military present arms, and individuals...
الصفحة 133 - Republic, when the citizens were acquiring immense profits from the manufacture of woollen cloth, the city-porters were numerous, and usually took their stand round the church of the Baptistery, near the Cathedral. In fact, for the most part, they lived...
الصفحة 35 - Memoirs, vol. ip 77. the highest nobility ; but most of those marble mansions have disappeared. The modern palaces are all faced with stucco, and some are painted in fresco. This fashion of painting figures on housefronts, was first introduced at Venice by Giorgione ; but, though admired even by severe critics, to me it appears too gay for any building that affects grandeur.'* The alleged disappearance of the marble mansions, is not easily to be explained. Evelyn speaks of the famous Slrada Nova...