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Often appears with: counsel and advisers to rulers · trade, markets, and merchants · wool taxation · tyranny and despotism · translation and the transmission of texts · taxation, tribute, and revenue · seclusion in a villa · relic translation · public finance and debt · phaeacian court decision-making · odysseus narration · night-long storytelling
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“Therefore I crave your pardon... Perhaps you never had seen anything of the sort before.” Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini · observation
In Phaeacia, Arete and Echeneus praise Odysseus, Alcinous orders him to stay until the next day, and asks him to recount whether any comrades who sailed with him to Troy died in his absence.
Crete to the hill of sacred Athens, yet had he no joy of her; for Artemis slew her ere that in sea-girt Dia, by reason of the witness of Dionysus. “And Maera and Clymene I saw, and hateful Eriphyle, who took fine gold for the price of her dear lord’s life. But I cannot tell or name all the wives and daughters of the heroes that I saw; ere that, the immortal night would wane. Nay, it is even now time to sleep, whethe…
At Ryhall, St. Tibba’s body or relics were brought to Peterborough and dedicated to St. Peter, and the chronicle then records King Edgar’s church appointments and a series of events from AD 963–972.
St. Tibba, that lay at Ryhall; and brought them to Peterborough, and offered them all to St. Peter in one day, and preserved them all the while he was there. ((A.D. 963. This year, by King Edgar, St. Ethelwold was chosen to the bishoprick at Winchester. And the Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Dunstan, consecrated him bishop on the first Sunday of Advent; that was on the third before the kalends of December.)) A.D. …
It narrates Chaucer’s royal patronage and offices in 1374–1376, including a daily wine grant from Edward III, his appointment as London Customs Controller, and later a fine victory regarding wool shipments.
the vines at Arqua; and we find in the history and the writings of Chaucer nothing to contradict, a good deal to countenance, the belief that such a meeting occurred. Though we have no express record, we have indirect testimony, that Chaucer’s Genoese mission was discharged satisfactorily; for on the 23d of April 1374, Edward III grants at Windsor to the poet, by the title of “our beloved squire” — dilecto Armigero …
Benvenuto addresses King Francis I, admitting his reply to the king’s praise, explaining how previous commissions and his own judgment led to royal artworks, and asking permission to quit France and return to Italy.
XLV WHEN he had wound up this sermon, agreed upon beforehand with his darling Madame d’Etampes, I bent one leg upon the ground, and kissed his coat above the knee. Then I began my speech as follows: “Sacred Majesty, I admit that all that you have said is true. Only, in reply, I protest that my heart has ever been, by day and night, with all my vital forces, bent on serving you and executing your commands. If it appe…
At Klarenza Alatiel attracts the Prince of the Morea, who treats her as his wife, and the Duke of Athens later murders the Prince and abducts Alatiel, keeping her secluded in a villa near Athens.
friends of the twain should vent itself upon her. From this mortal peril she was, however, delivered by the intercessions of the wounded man and their speedy arrival at Klarenza. As there she tarried at the same inn with her wounded lover, the fame of her great beauty was speedily bruited abroad, and reached the ears of the Prince of the Morea, who was then staying there. The Prince was curious to see her, and havin…
Martuccio, imprisoned in Tunis, gives military advice to King Mariabdela about archery supply and wins favor, leading eventually to Gostanza’s trip to Tunis and her reunion with Martuccio.
days acquired some skill, and thenceforth wrought together with them; and rose wondrous high in the favour and good graces of all the ladies, who soon taught her their language. Now while the damsel, mourned at home as lost and dead, dwelt thus at Susa, it so befell that, Mariabdela being then King of Tunis, a young chieftain in Granada, of great power, and backed by mighty allies, gave out that the realm of Tunis b…