The renaissance: its art and life; Florence (1450-1550) (1908)
Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 · Paris, New York [etc.] Goupil & Co. · leaf 190
savage executioner tore from his breast the livingflesh ; but a moment later he recovered himself to cry aloud in Latin, —My death is bitter, but my fame shall be eternal — Mors acerba, fama per-petual Stabit vetus memoria facti! Girolamo Olgiati when he perishedwas twenty-two years of age. One… … LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT. 81 to conspirators would have secured the despot; it is, however, a common-place of statutory experience that the severity of the code has neverdecreased the amount of crime; and the condition of Florence at thistime was full of the elements of danger. To the fuor-usciti,…
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