Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 298
d in theCastle of Ferrara. Chivalry, transmuted by the Italiangenius into something fanciful and quaint, survived as afrail work of art. The man-at-arms of the Condottieristill glittered in gilded hauberks. Their helmets wavedwith plumes and bizarre crests. Their surcoats blazedwith heraldries;… … THE PALACE OK URBIXO, ITALY. THE PALACE OF URBINO 227 not begun for Italy. Within a few years Charles VIII.sholiday excursion would reveal the internal rottenness andweakness of her rival states, and the peninsula for half acentury to come would be drenched in the blood of French-men, Germans,…
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