The renaissance: its art and life; Florence (1450-1550) (1908)
Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 · Paris, New York [etc.] Goupil & Co. · leaf 250
mportant position; an instance amongthe best-known is his Carnival song, The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne,with the wonderful lilt of its refrain Quanto e bella giovinezzaChe si fuggi tuttavia.... The Tyrant, wrote Savonarola, in his treatise on the Government ofFlorence, especially in times of… … LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT. 109 the people with shows and festivals, in order that they may think oftheir own pastimes and not of his designs; and there is every reasonto think that Lorenzo sought, in following also his own personal bent,to dazzle the people with his splendour, or amuse them with his…
Art · Art, Renaissance
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