Identifier: romanceofmonacoi00mayn_0 (find matches)
Title: The romance of Monaco and its rulers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayne, Ethel Colburn, -1941
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Publisher: New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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onThe Ladies of Mil an ^ as a haughty and ambitiouswoman, accepting with a smile the crimes that placedthe crown of Milan on her head. . . And yet Iknew she had been dearly worshipped in her lifetime,and long lamented in her tomb. And then, the exquisite essayist tells us, shevisited the Certosa of Pavia with its rose-red towers,and straight before me stood the tomb of theDuchess Beatrice. . . To think she is dead, andto think she was a woman! Impossible. Sheis a lively child. . . Her tumbled curls hangloosely round her shoulders, and stand up in alittle frizz above the rounded childish forehead.As she lies there, a look of infantile candour isdiffused over the soft, adorable, irregular features.She has straight, brief eyebrows, like a little girl,but her closed eyelids are rounded like the petalsof a thick white flower, and richly fringed withlashes. The little nose is of no particular shape... it is the prettiest nose at Court. . . Thecheeks are round apple-cheeks . . . and round is
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Photo by Anderson, Rome, after the painting by Leonardo da Vinci at Milan.BEATRICE D ESTE. p. 140) La Piu Zentil Donna 141 the neat bewitching chin. But her chief beauty isher mouth—a mouth with the soft-closed lips ofa dear child pretending to be asleep, yet smilingas if to say, c Soon I shall jump up and throw myarms round your neck, and you will be so sur-prised ! . . . This then is the famous Beatrice!I looked and looked ; at last I understood not onlyher, but the love of Lodovico. . . . She died, with barely a moments warning, attwenty-one ; and tis reported, wrote MarinoSanuto on January 9, 1496, in his Diary, that theDuke cannot suffer the sorrow of this loss, for thegreat love he bore to his wife ; and he saith he hathno heart for his children nor for his State, nor foraught under the sun ; so that almost is he wearyof his life. And, out of sadness, he keepeth hischamber which is hung all in black, and there fora fortnight he hath shut himself in. And tis saidthat, in the se

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