ISBN: 1155088980

Paperback, [EAN: 9781155088983], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… Mehr…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781155088983], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...the fruit and waters of the tree in vain. They soon came up with the poets--a pallid multitude, with hollow eyes, and bones staring through the skin. The sockets of their eyes looked like rings from which the gems had dropped.1 One of them knew and accosted Dante, who could not recognise him till he heard him speak. It was Forese Donati, one of the poet's most intimate connexions. Dante, who had wept over his face when dead, could as little forbear weeping to see him thus hungering and thirsting, though he had expected to find him in the outskirts of the place, among the delayers of repentance. He asked his friend how he had so quickly got higher. Forese said it was owing to the prayers and tears of his good wife Nella; and 1 " Paren 1' occhiaje anella senza gemme." This beautiful and affecting image is followed in the original by one of the most fantastical conceits of the time. The poet says, that the physiognomist who " reads the word Omo (homo, man), written in the face of the human being, might easily have seen the letter m in theirs." " Chi nel viso de gli uomini legge omo, Bene avria quivi conosciuto 1' emme." The meaning is, that the perpendicular lines of the nose and temples form the letter M, and the eyes the two o's. The enthusiast for Roman domination must have been delighted to find that Nature wrote in Latin! then he burst into a strain of indignation against the contrast exhibited to her virtue by the general depravity of the Florentine women, whom he described as less modest than the half-naked savages in the mountains of Sardinia. " What is to be said of such creatures?" continued he. " O my dear cousin! I see a day at hand, when these impudent women shall be forbidden from..., 2330, Authors, 2327, Arts & Literature, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 4959, Italy, 4935, Europe, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9781155088983

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...the fruit and waters of the tree in vain. They soon came up with the poets--a pallid multitude, with hollow eyes, and bones staring through the skin. The sockets of their eyes looked like rings from which the gems had dropped.1 One of them knew and accosted Dante, who could not recognise him till he heard him speak. It was Forese Donati, one of the poet''s most intimate connexions. Dante, who had wept over his face when dead, could as little forbear weeping to see him thus hungering and thirsting, though he had expected to find him in the outskirts of the place, among the delayers of repentance. He asked his friend how he had so quickly got higher. Forese said it was owing to the prayers and tears of his good wife Nella; and 1 Paren 1'' occhiaje anella senza gemme. This beautiful and affecting image is followed in the original by one of the most fantastical conceits of the time. The poet says, that the physiognomist who reads the word Omo (homo, man), written in the face of the human being, might easily have seen the letter m in theirs. Chi nel viso de gli uomini legge omo, Bene avria quivi conosciuto 1'' emme. The meaning is, that the perpendicular lines of the nose and temples form the letter M, and the eyes the two o''s. The enthusiast for Roman domination must have been delighted to find that Nature wrote in Latin! then he burst into a strain of indignation against the contrast exhibited to her virtue by the general depravity of the Florentine women, whom he described as less modest than the half-naked savages in the mountains of Sardinia. What is to be said of such creatures? continued he. O my dear cousin! I see a day at hand, when these impudent women shall be forbidden from... Leigh Hunt, Books, Biography and Memoir, Stories from the Italian Poets; With Lives of the Writers Volume 1 Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1155088980

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