The Tempting of Pescara - Hardcover

Meyer, Conrad

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ISBN 10: 0865273138 ISBN 13: 9780865273139

Publisher: Howard Fertig Pub, 1975

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... "but equally great brother Buonarotti. And yet you yourself have a deep, reserved nature." "It is for that very reason, Vittoria. Art is a thing for pleasure. As to your Michael Angelo--only beware of making me jealous of the broken-nosed Cyclops whom you admire so much." Vittoria smiled: "I have never seen his face, and only know his work in the Sistina." "The Prophets and Sibyls? I saw them some years ago and examined them carefully, but they have vanished from my mind excepting a few details. For example, the man with his hair on end starting back from a mirror...." "In which he sees the menaces of the present," she eagerly interrupted. "And a caryatid--crouching under a terrific burden; a crouching, square, suffering figure. The ugliest woman, beyond question, as you are the loveliest...." "A crushed, oppressed, enslaved creature...." "I remember the Prophets too, now: Zachariah or whichever it may be--bald, with his legs crossed; Ezekiel scolding, in a turban; Daniel writing, writing, writing. Yes, and the Sibyls: the bent old woman with a hawk's beak, her dim eyes poring into a tiny book; and the one next her feeding her dying lamp with oil; aye, and the most beautiful of all--the young one with the Delphic tripod. All wildly energetic. But 1 what is the meaning of their frenzy? What are they all preaching and prophesying?" Vittoria broke out in flaming enthusiasm, as if she herself sat in the council of the Prophets: "They are bewailing enslaved Italy, and proclaiming the advent of its deliverer and redeemer!" "No," said Pescara with stern decision. "The hour of redemption is past. It is not mercy that they foretell, but judgment." Vittoria was chilled; but the look of judicial severity had already passed from her husband's features. "Enough of the...

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