Et credo praemissa circa me, per prouidentiam et gratiam Dei contigisse, quoniam à tempore quo recessi, duo reges nostri Angliæ, et Franciæ, non cessauerunt inuicem exercere destructiones, depraedationes, insidias, et interfectiones, inter quas, nisi à Domino custoditus, non transissem sine morte, vel mortis periculo, et sine criminum grandi cumulo.

"Era si cattivo il concetto, che di lui avevasi in Roma, cioè che fosse stato autore di tutte le torbolenze d'Inghilterra, che era necessario dasse primo segni ben grandi del suo pentimento.

Smentite le legge fondamentali del regno, egli è il solo legislatore: tutti i governi escono dalle sue mane, e quelli del consiglio, per entrarvi, devono essere nominati da sua altezza, ne possono divenir grandi, se non da lui inalzati.

The Grandi he kept in check by the Popolo Minuto, but ignored the Popolo Grasso, to which the Medici belonged.

The Buonaventuri, though by no means an obscure family, were not Grandi like the Cappelli, Lords of Venice.

grandi de' governanti, noi venissimo a quella storia, troppo sovente negletta, dei piccoli, dei più, dei governati che sono in

"Nel qual vomito mi usci dello stomaco un verme piloso, grande un quarto di braccio: e' peli erano grandi ed il verme era bruttissimo, macchiato di diversi colori, verdi, neri e rossi." Lib. i. cap.

The words in which Amore describes himself in the prologue non mica un dio Selvaggio, o della plebe degli dei, Ma tra' grandi celesti il più possente recall Ovid's lines: nec de plebe deo, sed qui caelestia magna sceptra manu teneo.

Cornelio Grandi, who tell you these things, have a story of my own, of which some of you are not ignorant.

Or what does the University care for the fact that I, Cornelio Grandi, am the last of a race as old as the Colonnas, and quite as honourable?

"And how have you the education obtained in order the obligations and not-to-be-avoided responsibilities of this worthy-of-all-honour career to meet?" "I went to school here, Signor Conte, and the Professor Grandi, in whose house I always have lived, has taught me everything else I know.

I know the Commedia of Alighieri, and Petrarca, and I have read the Gerusalemme Liberata with Professor Grandi, and I can repeat all of the Vita Nuova by heart, and some of the" "For the present that is enough," said the count.

"Yes, signorina," he answered, "Professor Grandi says it was built for public baths; but, of course, we all think it was a temple.

"Does Professor Cornelio Grandi live here?"

Signor Grandi, we thank you for your civility.

"Signor Grandi," he said, "I trust you will pardon my intrusion.

Excuse my amusement, Signor Grandi, but the idea of dignity always makes me smile."

I have had a great many illusions in my life, Signor Grandi.

Poor Nino, I thought, you shall never say again that Cornelio Grandi has not done what was in his power to make you happy.

" "I have known you a long time, Signor Grandi, and you are an honest man.

"Signor Grandi," he said in a moment, seeing I was silent, "I am enchanted to see you, if you prefer that I should be.

It merely said that the servant was trustworthy, and would "instruct the Signor Grandi" how to act.

"Are you Signor Grandi?"

"You are very kind, Signor Grandi.

Do you know him, Signor Grandi?