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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XI CRIMES AND INSOLENCE OF THE NOBLES ? LIFE IN THE MONASTERIES ?ACTORS, COURTESANS, ADVENTURERS THE boldness and courage which had become accentuated as characteristics of the late Cinquecento, in the following century were transformed into a braggart violence which endeavoured to cloak essential weakness. Certain aspects of life and certain forms of art seem grander, hut it is a grandeur flaccid, inflated, and unhealthy. Thought and feeling perpetually present a violent antithesis of good and evil; and in Venice we find a hero like Lazzaro Mocenigo side by side with villains ready for any iniquity. Some of the young spirits, suppressed by the mistaken rigour of their home upbringing, were no sooner free of the paternal subjection than they plunged into a life of disorder,1 and certain writers affirm that in no city in the world were the young men so violent, so vicious, and so brutal as in Venice.2 If we look at one side of life, this judgment may seem true. Brusoni, in his romances, sketches for us a great nobleman, Glisomiro, who in the fantastic and corrupt mind of the author appears as the ideal gentleman. Glisomiro makes his bravi thrash the paramours of his mistress, carries off wives from their jealous husbands, and skips lightly from love-making with maidens to affairs with married women. All the same, when he pleases, he can proveboth his worth and his learning, and mask under a veil of feigned gentleness whatever remains in him of a guilty i Saint-Didier, La Ville et la Rp., cil., f. a8a. Costantini, Lett., cit., VII, ni) et seq. 1 melot de La Houssaye, Hist, du ?0?. de Venise, Part III., cit. conscience.1 This type of an insolent lordling, drawn for us also by Manzoni with far greater skill, was to be found not only among the feudal barons...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217904834 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217904831 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 210 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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