The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent, Volume 1 |
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Page 236 - A transaction in which a pope, a cardinal, an archbishop, and several other ecclesiastics, associated themselves with a band of ruffians, to destroy two men who were an honour to their age and country ; and purposed to perpetrate their crime at a season of hospitality, in the sanctuary of a Christian Church, and at the very moment of the elevation of the host, when the audience bowed down before it, and the assassins were presumed to be in the immediate presence of their God.
Page 52 - Roman pontiff was preceded or imitated by a Florentine merchant, who governed the republic without arms and without a title. Cosmo of Medicis was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of learning: his credit was ennobled into fame; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind ; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London : and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books was often imported in the same vessel.
Page 355 - Midst woods obscure, and native glooms, were found. 'Midst woods and glooms, whose tangled brakes around Once Venus sorrowing traced, as all forlorn She sought Adonis, when a lurking thorn Deep on her foot impressed an impious wound.
Page 384 - О earth, the solemn strain ! Ye whirlwinds wild that sweep along, Ye darkening storms of beating rain, Umbrageous glooms, and forests drear, And solitary deserts, hear ! Be still, ye winds, whilst to the Maker's praise The creature of his power aspires his voice to raise! O, may the...
Page 63 - Towards the latter period of his life, a great part of the time that Cosmo could withdraw from the administration of public affairs, was passed at his seats at Careggi and Caffaggiolo, where he applied himself to the cultivation of his farms, from which he derived no inconsiderable revenue. But his happiest hours were devoted to the study of letters and philosophy, or passed in the company and conversation of learned men. When he retired at intervals to his seat at Careggi, he was generally accompanied...
Page 19 - The form of government was ostensibly a republic, and was directed by a council of ten citizens, and a chief executive officer called the gonfaloniere, or standardbearer, who was chosen every two months. Under this establishment the citizens imagined they enjoyed the full exercise of their liberties ; but such was the power of the Medici that they generally either assumed to themselves the first offices of the state, or nominated such persons as they thought proper to those employments. In this,...
Page 12 - Salvestro de' Medici acquired great reputation by his temperate but firm resistance to the nobles, who, in order to secure their power, accused those who opposed them of being attached to the party of the Ghibelines, then in great odium at Florence. The persons so accused were said to be ammonili (admonished), and by that act were excluded from all offices of government.
Page 249 - Medici, and in whom they placed great confidence, he stabbed him with a wound instantaneously mortal. At the approach of Bandini, the friends of Lorenzo encircled him and hurried him into the Sacristy, where Politiano and others closed the doors, which were of brass.
Page 274 - O FRIEND, whose woes this bosom shares, Why ceaseless mourn our mutual cares ? Ah ! why thy days to grief resign, With thy regrets recalling mine ? Eternal o'er the atrocious deed, Tis true our kindred hearts may bleed, When he, twin glory of our land, Fell by a sacrilegious...
Page 352 - Whilst Love rejoicing in the amorous shower, Stands like some bird, that, after sultry heats, Enjoys the drops, and shakes his glittering wings : Then grasps his bolt, and, conscious of his power, Midst those bright orbs assumes his wonted seat, And thro' the lucid shower his living lightning flings.