Identifier: heroinesofgenoar00stal (find matches)
Title: Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Staley, Edgcumbe, b. 1845
Subjects: Women -- Italy Genoa Genoa (Italy) -- History Riviera (France)
Publisher: London, T. W. Laurie
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Milan). Amid the flow of wit andthe play of platitude, conversation naturallyturned, as where men meet men, to women andtheir ways. Each spokesman quite consciouslywas moved by the Spirito del Campanile^ andboasted bravely over all his fellows of the virtuesand the foibles of his spouse, or of his sweetheart.However, a general consensus was reached, forit was unanimously agreed that women werekittle cattle whatever their estate, and no oneof them better than her sisters. One of the gay company called the toast** Wine and Women, and went on to say : Formy part I do not know, I vow, what my wifedoes with herself when I am away, but as forme I make a rule of enjoying myself with anydamsel who pleases me—so here once more toWine and Women. Then up spoke MessirBarnaba Lomellini of Genoa, son of MessirMatteo, in the direct line from Vassallo Lomellini,one of the founders of the family, whose datewas 1077, and whose name appears in the earliest* Libro dOroJ He was a wealthy agent of his 60
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GINEVRA LOMELLINI BEFORE THE SULTAN. AITHR A WOODCrT. Boccaccio Decamerone, G.II , N. IX. Crusades and Crafts famous house, dealing in velvets, gloves andEastern goods— All I know/ quoth he, isthat my wife is not like thine, Sir Merchant,I can trust her implicitly—she is absolutelyfaithful, indeed if I did not return to her for tenlong years, she would all the while be true to me.The men poked each other in the ribs and laughedright heartily at this sally. Then Messir Lomel-lini, put upon his metal and understanding thecovert innuendo, went on to describe the virtu-ous attributes of his good spouse, in distantGenoa. * She is, said he, of a goodly person, plump,still young, full of wit, gentle, and very courteous.In nothing does she fall short of anything per-taining to the ofhce of wife. No Lord, Noble,Knight, or Squire could be better served at bedor table, than am I, nor with more sweetness,modesty, and decorum. In riding she is accom-plished and in hunting too : in the gentle a

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