Identifier: menmannersofoldf00biag (find matches)
Title: Men and manners of old Florence
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Biagi, Guido, 1855-1925
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Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he position ofTullia and her companions was such as to justify themin hoping for the best possible good fortune. Themost respected and exclusive people who had at anytime been brought into contact with them strove topreserve their friendship, because, as Burckhardt ob-serves, passion always leaves behind it an inefface-able trace. It is not surprising, therefore, to readin Aretinos Ragionamento how Zoppino, turnedmonk, describes to his friend Lodovico the mannerin which these ladies fill the churches : For if Loren-zina goes, he says, ten gentlemen accompany her,ten others follow and twenty wait for her without;if Matrema goes, she is accompanied not only by tenmaids and as many pages and servants, but also bygreat princes, that is to say, by marquises, ambassadors,and dukes ; Beatrice is attended by as many nobles, Donthis and Don the other. La Greca has her counts andher lords, Beatrice has her prelates, such as bishops,poets, and abbots. And Tullia, with many beardlessyouths. . . .
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Photo) PIETRO ARKTIXO, KY TITIAN. \Aliiuui.\Jo face fiijie 150. / TULLIA OF ARRAGON 151 A census of Rome, taken during the pontificate ofLeo X and brought to light by Signor M. Armellini,who judges its date to be somewhere between the years1511 and 1518, gives us a true picture of that whichwas called by Aretino the women s city at the time whenGiulia Campana, Tullias mother, was famous there.It is only necessary to read the simple, unpolishedprose of this official document, wherein are numbered,district by district, parish by parish, all the housesand shops, and the respective proprietors and in-habitants, with their nationalities, professions, trades,and positions, to obtain a clear idea of the social lifeof that period, and to behold almost with our owneyes that Rome of Leo X which gave refuge to thefugitive Pier Soderini, who dwelt near unto SantoBiasio de Monte Cetorio, in his own house, which,by the irony of chance, was situated on the veryspot where now stands the building of t

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