The renaissance: its art and life; Florence (1450-1550) (1908)
Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 · Paris, New York [etc.] Goupil & Co. · leaf 430
t him, with morethan fifty youths of the best and richest families, all clad in the richcostume of the cinquocento — una livrea di yeste di drapi pagonazzi, convai al collo — a* costume of purple cloth, the fairest sight to see; withvery many citizens on horseback, and the Pope had with him many… … THE FALL OF FLORENCE. 185 foot-soldiers ; and on horseback many archers and musketeers, all of hisguard. And he was carried by the Signory beneath a rich canopy throughthe whole city, and set down at Santa Maria del Fiore, and went upthrough a raised gangway (palchetto) to the high altar ; and the…
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