 Palazzo-Vecchio, is a medieval structure, an enormous block of stone pierced with occasional trefoil windows, with a heavy cornice of projecting battlements and flanked with a similar high tower, a veritable domestic citadel calculated for strife and...  Italy: Rome and Naples; Florence and Venice - Pagina 76door Hippolyte Taine - 1871Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1869 - 414 pagina’s
...centre of republican life ; here as ' at Sienna, the old town hall, the Palazzo-Vecchio, is a medieval structure, an enormous block of stone pierced with...fought without ceasing. They barricaded streets with chevaux-defrises and fortified the houses; the nobles filled the city with their armed peasants from... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 430 pagina’s
...deserved. His statue is at the top, with a wreath on the head very like a night-cap drawn over the eyes. It is impossible to look at it without being reminded of the fate which the original most richly merited. But my letter will overflow even the ample limits of a... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pagina’s
...deserved. His statue is at the top, with a wreath on the head very like a nightcap drawn over the eyes. It is impossible to look at it without being reminded of the fate which the original most richly merited. But my letter will overflow even the ample limits of a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 680 pagina’s
...deserved. His statue is at the top, with a wreath on the head very like a nightcap drawn over the eyes. It is impossible to look at it without being reminded of the fate which the original most richly merited. But my letter will overflow even the ample limits of a... | |
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