The Perfect Courtier: Baldassare Castiglione, His Life and Letters, 1478-1529J. Murray, 1908 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affairs altro ambassador Andrea Archbishop Archbishop of Capua Archivio arrived Baldassare Castiglione Bembo Bishop Bishop of Bayeux Bourbon Bozzolo Cæsar Camillo Canossa Cardinal Cardinal Bibbiena Casatico Charles Church Clement Colonna Cortegiano Count court Cristoforo Datary death ducats Duchess Duke of Urbino Emperor Esenzioni favour Federico France Francesco French friends Giovanni Giulio give Gonzaga hands hear Holiness honour hope imperial Imperialists Ippolita Isabella Italy ladies leave Legate Leo X letter Lodovico Lombardy lord Madonna Madonna Luigia Madrid Majesty Mantua Marchesana Maria Marquis Medici Messer Milan mother Naples Navagero never nuncio Orsini palace Papal Pavia peace Pesaro Pescara Pope Pope's princes promised Raphael received replied Sadoleto Sanuto sent Serassi servant Signor Spain Spanish tell things tiglione told Toledo took Vatican Venetian Venetian envoy Venice Viceroy wife wish words write wrote Castiglione young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 404 - Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
עמוד 59 - ... during those last calm days of a sickness that must almost have been a welcome escape from the load of toil he had been carrying. Part of that load was the direction of excavations, for Raphael was one of the first Roman archaeologists. The papal secretary Celio Calcagnini wrote of Raphael in 1519: "By digging out the foundations of ancient monuments and restoring them according to the descriptions of classical authors, he has filled Pope Leo and all Rome with such admiration that they look upon...
עמוד 133 - Pope died in worse repute,' wrote the poet Tebaldeo's brother-in-law. ' All Rome is saying, " He came in like a fox, lived like a lion, and died like a dog.
עמוד 418 - I tell you,' he is reported to have said, ' one of the finest gentlemen in the world is dead.' ('Yo vos digo que es muerto uno de los mejores caballeros del mundo...
עמוד 448 - Eaphaëlis imago Picta manu, curas allevat usque meas. Huic ego delicias facio, arrideoque jocorque, Alloquor, et tanquam reddere verba queat, Assensu nutuque mihi saepe illa videtur Dicere velle aliquid, et tua verba loqui ; Agnoscit, balboque patrem puer ore salutat : Hoc solor longos decipioque dies.
עמוד 428 - Cortegiano," the friend of M. Angelo and Raffaelle. He was twice painted by Raffaelle. He died at Toledo (Feb. 2, 1529), but was brought here to rest in the tomb of his young wife. His epitaph is by Bembo : —
עמוד 402 - ... that what happened in Rome was not the fault of the Emperor, but of the Pope ; and, after saying that you do not intend to speak evil of the Holy Father, you charge him with fraud, calumny, and a long list of crimes, making him appear the most wicked man on the face of the earth. In the second place you assert that the ruin of Rome was the manifest judgment of God on this city, where the worst vices flourished under the cloak of the Christian religion. After having described the corruption and...
עמוד 52 - It was his custom to invite a few of the young Cardinals and their friends to supper at the Vatican, and, after playing a game at chess or cards, to spend the rest of the evening in music and singing. The palace halls rang far into the night with the exquisite strains of viols and lutes, while the Pope himself, with closed eyes and head thrown back, listened, rapt in a trance of delight, beating time with his hand and singing the tune...
עמוד 320 - Pompejanorum causa totiens jugulata, an consentire, ne ludibrio simus inimicis, quibus utri nostrum ceciderint lucro futurum est.
עמוד 81 - ... that Isabella d'Este, dowager Marchioness of Mantua (see note 397), entrusted the duty of breaking as gently as possible to Castiglione (then Mantuan ambassador at Rome) the news of the sudden death of the latter's young wife. "We told him the sad news," wrote Bibbiena, "as best we could, . . . none of us could keep back our tears, and we all wept together for some time.