This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...have had most effect in convincing Prinzivalle of Madonna Ghita's unearthliness was that through all those years of passion she still withheld something of her love, remained in part inaccessible. No matter how he strove, no matter what he effected in her name, there was still a spiritual communion to be conquered. And ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...have had most effect in convincing Prinzivalle of Madonna Ghita's unearthliness was that through all those years of passion she still withheld something of her love, remained in part inaccessible. No matter how he strove, no matter what he effected in her name, there was still a spiritual communion to be conquered. And she withheld it in terms; telling him she did so, promising that this communion should be his when his lesson was at last learned and he had finally accomplished his triple aim of love, loyalty, and self-relinquishment. No doubt during the period of his long spiritual probation he often expected the guerdon to be his, and found himself doomed to disappointment; but he endured with patience, and perhaps it will be thought not the least proof of his endurance that he did so, seeing that he perceived how profoundly Madonna Ghita had read him and counted on his obedience. Thus month succeeded to month and year to year, and the great fact of their love moved on with time, all other things being either tributary to it or non-existent. And Prinzivalle's devotion grew every day more and more implicit; he went on aspiring, burning, asking nothing, striking a still higher note in his sonnets, reaching still higher and more transcendent regions of spiritual love, and longing still more ardently for his promised reward. And when six years had thus been passed, the conspiracy of the Pazzi broke out. Such a dire event asthis, with the memorable and awful murder of Giuliano de' Medici in the cathedral, and the narrow escape of Lorenzo from the same dreadful fate, would naturally stir Prinzivalle's energies to the utmost. After the blow had been struck it fell to his share to direct certain of the measures of vengeance, and it coming to his official knowledge...
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Very Good. First edition. Green cloth, black lettering. Introduction by Owen Wister. Illustrated. Some pages unopened, cloth lightly mottled, a very good copy.
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8vo, pp. 183. Illustrated. With an introduction by Owen Wister. Green cloth, stamped in black, gilt, cream and red. Hinges near tender, cover little worn at edges, corner torn off flyleaf, o/w VG.
