The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 92
n his time.The nobles of Granada, emulating the graceful taste of theirmonarch, filled the city with magnificent palaces, the halls ofwhich were adorned with mosaics, the ceilings wrought infretwork, and delicately gilded and painted, or inlaid withprecious woods; they had lofty towers of wood or… … THE WINE GATE, ATTRIBUTED TOYUSUF I. 30 The Alhambra. writer, Granada, in the days of Yusuf, was as a silver vasefilled with emeralds and jacynths. One anecdote will be sufficient to show the magnanimity ofthis generous prince. The long truce which succeeded thebattle of Salado was at an end, and…
