The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures (1903)
Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866- · Boston : L.C. Page · leaf 190
hastly ceremony.Salvator Rosa depicts that fearful moment whenCatiline, having employed all his marvellous elo-quence to detail the nature of his perilous enterprise, has induced the conspirators to bind them-selves to secrecy and to the terrible cause by takinga solemn oath, ratified by pledging… … w 2 a t-i 3 ^ •—» H «4-lO <; u 13 Pi4 X o (D >H ■4-» u ei O C4enO u > m XEbe Iball of 5upftet 143 evil-looking dupe, is holding a cup to receive theblood which flows from his raised arm. He wasprobably chosen for this hideous sacrifice, to supplythe blood for the conspirators to drink,…
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