The Story of VeronaJ.M. Dent, 1907 - 317 pages |
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Adige Alberto della Scala Alboino Amphitheatre Antonio Antonio della Scala arches archway Arena Bartolomeo beautiful Bishop Brusasorci building built Cangrande Cangrande della Scala Cangrande's Cansignorio Cansignorio della Scala Caroto Carraresi carved castle Cavazzola century chapel church of St colour columns crypt Dante death decorated Duomo Emperor erected Ezzelino façade Fermo foes Francesco Morone frescoes Gallery Ghibelline Gian Giovanni Girolamo dai Libri Gothic Guglielmo high altar honour Illasi Italian Italy King latter legend Liberale Lombard lord of Verona Madonna and Child Mantegna Mantua marble Maria Mastino Mastino II Milan monument murder noble Padua paintings palace Palazzo Paolo Paolo Veronese Piazza delle Erbe picture Pisanello Podestă Porta possessed reign restored Roman Rome Ruskin saints San Micheli says Scaligers scene side Signori Sirmione St Anastasia stands statue style tomb Torbido tower Venetian Republic Venice Veronese Vicenza Villafranca Visconti walls writers Zeno
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Page 261 - Poi si rivolse, e parve di coloro Che corrono a Verona il drappo verde Per la campagna; e parve di costoro Quegli che vince e non colui che perde. CANTO DECIMOSESTO varia era in loco ove s...
Page 197 - Grande, of a raised sarcophagus, bearing the recumbent statue, protected by a noble four-square canopy, sculptured with ancient Scripture history. On one side of the sarcophagus is Christ enthroned, with Can Mastino kneeling before Him ; on the other Christ is represented in the mystical form, half-rising from the tomb, meant, I believe, to be at once typical of His passion and resurrection. The lateral panels are occupied by statues of saints. At one extremity of the sarcophagus is the Crucifixion...
Page 8 - ... long, thrown out from the Alps; and of which the last rock dies into the plain, exactly at that eastern gate of Verona out of which we came to climb it. Now this promontory is one of the sides of the great gate out of Germany into Italy, through which the Goths always entered : cloven up to Innspruck by the Inn; and down to Verona by the Adige. And by this gate not only the Gothic armies came, but after the Italian nation is formed, the current of northern life enters still into its heart through...
Page 60 - Ezzelino made himself terrible not merely by executions and imprisonments, but also by mutilations and torments. When he captured Friola he caused the population of all ages, sexes, and occupations to be deprived of their eyes, noses, and legs and to be cast forth to the mercy of the elements.
Page 229 - ... porch of marble, and in one strong and almost straight stream, blanched always bright by its swiftness, reflecting on its eddies neither bank nor cloud; but only light, stretch itself along among the vines, to the Verona lying at your feet : there first it passes the garden walls of the Church of St. Zeno, then under the battlements of the great bridge of the Scaligers, then passes away out of sight behind the hill on which, though among ghastly modern buildings, here and there you may still...
Page 229 - Now, I do not think that there is any other rock in all the world, from which the places, and monuments, of so complex and deep a fragment of the history of its ages can be visible, as from this piece of crag, with its blue and prickly weeds. For you have thus beneath you at once, the birthplaces of Virgil and of Livy, the homes of Dante and Petrarch, and the source of the most sweet and pathetic inspiration to your own Shakespeare; the spot where the...
Page 59 - Ezzelino, a small, pale, wiry man, with terror in his face and enthusiasm for evil in his heart, lived a foe to luxury, cold to the pathos of children, dead to the enchantment of women. His one passion was the greed of power, heightened by the lust for blood.
Page 71 - n su la Scala porta il santo uccello 3; Ch' avrà in te sì benigno riguardo, Che, del fare e del chieder, tra voi due Fia prima quel che tra gli altri è più tardo. Con lui vedrai colui che impresso fue4 Nascendo sì da questa stella forte, Che notabili fien l
Page 294 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 87 - Verona against the Germans; dug the great moat out of its rocks ; built its wall and towers ; established his court of royal and thoughtful hospitality; became the chief Ghibelline captain of Lombardy, and the receiver of noble exiles from all other states ; possessed himself by hard fighting of Vicenza also ; then of Padua ; then, either by strength or subtlety, of Feltre, — Belluno, — Bassano ; and died at 37, — of eating apples when he was too hot, — in the year 1329.