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... Asserts a Mission above that of the Pope Procession on Palm Sunday Francesco Valori and the Piagnoni Works of Art burnt in the Piazza Piero de ' Medici and the Arrabbiati . Savonarola excommunicated by the Pope . The Plague at Florence ...
... Asserts a Mission above that of the Pope Procession on Palm Sunday Francesco Valori and the Piagnoni Works of Art burnt in the Piazza Piero de ' Medici and the Arrabbiati . Savonarola excommunicated by the Pope . The Plague at Florence ...
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... asserted that there were but two . Innocent was the first Pope who cared not to disguise his parental relation under the specious name of nepotism . But the new Pope was no longer hostile ; he was in close alliance with Florence and the ...
... asserted that there were but two . Innocent was the first Pope who cared not to disguise his parental relation under the specious name of nepotism . But the new Pope was no longer hostile ; he was in close alliance with Florence and the ...
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... assert ( legend now begins to speak ) that , when he yielded , he said , ' To - morrow I shall begin to preach , and I shall preach for eight years . ' The Apocalypse was again his inspiring theme . On the 1st of August ( 1491 ) , on a ...
... assert ( legend now begins to speak ) that , when he yielded , he said , ' To - morrow I shall begin to preach , and I shall preach for eight years . ' The Apocalypse was again his inspiring theme . On the 1st of August ( 1491 ) , on a ...
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... assertion , that his more fervent hearers beheld angels hovering over him while he preached , the Virgin herself uttering with him his benedictions ; palms of martyrdom upon his head ; blood welling from his side . One noble We quote ...
... assertion , that his more fervent hearers beheld angels hovering over him while he preached , the Virgin herself uttering with him his benedictions ; palms of martyrdom upon his head ; blood welling from his side . One noble We quote ...
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... assertion . No one can know Savonarola who has not read and studied the ' Compendium Revelationum , ' in which he offered to the world , as it were , the credentials of his prophetic mission . " This book was published in the midst of ...
... assertion . No one can know Savonarola who has not read and studied the ' Compendium Revelationum , ' in which he offered to the world , as it were , the credentials of his prophetic mission . " This book was published in the midst of ...
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Page 120 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Page 355 - Vergine bella, che di sol vestita, coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole piacesti sì che 'n te sua luce ascose, amor mi spinge a dir di te parole; ma non so 'ncominciar senza tu' aita e di colui ch'amando in te si pose.
Page 116 - Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head.
Page 357 - Thus, there was a wonder in Heaven; a throne was seen far above all created powers, mediatorial, intercessory, a title archetypal, a crown bright as the morning star, a glory issuing from the eternal throne, robes pure as the heavens, and a sceptre over all.
Page 448 - Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in, Praetors, proconsuls to their provinces Hasting, or on return, in robes of state ; Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power, Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road...
Page 452 - ... di faciant, mea ne terra locet ossa frequenti, qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter ! post mortem tumuli sic infamantur amantum. me tegat arborea devia terra coma, aut humer ignotae cumulis vallatus harenae : non iuvat in media nomen habere via.
Page 399 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Page 20 - It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power.
Page 31 - O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!
Page 449 - Meroe, Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Black-moor sea ; From the Asian kings, and Parthian among these, From India and the golden Chersonese, . And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed, From Gallia, Gades, and the British west, Germans and Scythians, and Sarmatians north Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.