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Ah! you are in haste - wish to be shaved without delay - ecco! And this is a morning when every one has grave matter on his mind. Florence orphaned - the very pivot of Italy snatched aw

unted every goldsmith and money-lender in Florence on my fingers, I couldn't have found a better name than Menico Cennini. Besides,

s of printing carried on by Germans, had cast his own types in Florence, remained necessarily in lathered sil

as Francesco Filelfo or our own incomparable Poliziano. A second Guarino,' too, for he has had the misfortune to be ship-wrecked, and has doubtless lost a store of precious manuscripts t

, and presenting it to Cennini, whom Nello, not less rapid with his

l figure, about fifty, with a short trimmed beard, wearing an old felt hat and a

ceiving old Priam, and I should be glad of your

fancies ever packed into a human skin. What trick wilt thou play with the fine visage of this young scholar to make it suit thy traitor? Ask him rather to turn his eyes upward, and thou mayst make a Saint Sebastian of him that will draw troops o

- eyes of such agate-like brightness and depth that no infamy can dull them - cheeks that will rise from a murder and not look haggard. I say not this young man is a traitor: I mean, he has a face that would make him the more perfect traitor if he had the heart of one, which is saying neither more nor less than that he has a beautiful face, informed with rich young blood, that will b

m in his ears, and placed himself in the chair before Nello, who shrugged his shoulders and cast a grimacing look of int

d him so equivocally, seemed recalled to his self-command by Piero's change of position, and appare

e it, in the black stratum of the onyx, or rather nicolo, is well shown by the surrounding blue of the u

ntinued, smiling, 'though I have worn it constantly since I quitted Greece, it has not made me altogether fortunate at sea, you perceive, unless I am to count escape from drowning as a sufficient proof of its virtue. It remains to be seen whether my lost chests will come to light; but to lose no chance of such a result, Messer

e of scholarship than I, will perhaps be able to supply you with a task that may test your capabilities. Meanwh

may be, which is of the less consequence because babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and, indeed, if they could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babies at particular epochs. Besid

round his bright face at the door. 'You are to do me a great serv

e. Why, thou wilt say next that Lionardo, whom thou art always raving about, ought to have made his Judas as beautiful as St John! But thou art as deaf as the top of Mou