"Conte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ayse d'entendre le discours que mondit neueu de Beauville luy en feist. Lequel, apres luy avoir conte le susdit affayre, supplia sadicte Sainctete, suyvant la charge expresse qu'il avoit de V.M. de vouloir conceder, pour le fruict de ceste allegresse, la dispense du mariage du roy et royne de Navarre, datee de quelques jours avant que les nopces en feussent faictes, ensemble ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... remarked, smilingly, "that the Signor Conte's hands were not those of a coral-fisher. Oh, yes! I know a gentleman when I see him—though we Sicilians say we are all gentlemen. It is a good boast, but alas! not always true! A rivederci, signor! Command me when you will—I am ...
— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli
... ecclesiastical patronage. To his surname of Medici he added that of Sizi: he was the wealthiest citizen of his day in Florence. His wife, Donna Mandina di Filippo de' Arrigucci of Fiesole, gave him six sons—Giacopo, Giovenco, Francesco, Salvestro, Talento, and Conte. All of them rose to eminence in the State, but of one only can the ...
— The Tragedies of the Medici • Edgcumbe Staley
... concluded that I must make up my mind to face another night with the mosquitos and their hardy allies, when, to my great joy, a slatternly serving-maid came lolloping into the room, and announced that a gentleman styling himself "il Conte di Rosenau" had arrived and demanded to see me instantly. Here was a piece of unlooked-for good fortune! I jumped up, and flew to the door to receive my friend, whose footsteps I already heard on ...
— Stories By English Authors: Italy • Various
... must think myself highly flattered, Signor Conte, having always heard that you are not only the greatest democrat, but also ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... physics of San Francisco and its immediate neighborhood have engaged the careful study of physical geographers. The commonly accepted opinion is one which was formulated by Prof. John Le Conte, professor of geology in the University of California, and one of the world's geological authorities. His explanation is based upon the mountain contours of the coast of California from the Santa Barbara channel northward to the Golden ...
— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum
... This was a gentleman, once a great favorite of M. le Conte, and in whom I myself was ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... can be a Darwinian." Even more uncompromising was another of the leading authorities at the same university—the Rev. Dr. Duffield. He declared war not only against Darwin but even against men like Asa Gray, Le Conte, and others, who had attempted to reconcile the new theory with the Bible: he insisted that "evolutionism and the scriptural account of the origin of man are irreconcilable"—that the Darwinian theory is "in direct conflict with the teaching ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... of the tragical conte "de la Chastelaine de Vergi, qui mori por laialment amer son ami." See "Fabliaux et Contes," ed. Barbazan, iv. 296: and cf. Bandello, Pt. iv. Nov. v, and Heptameron, ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio
... old surname of Simoni. The reason was that he believed in their legendary descent from the Counts of Canossa through a Podesta of Florence, traditionally known as Simone da Canossa. This opinion had been confirmed in 1520, as we have seen above, by a letter he received from the Conte Alessandro da Canossa, addressing him as "Honoured kinsman." In the correspondence with Lionardo, Michelangelo alludes to this act of recognition: "You will find a letter from the Conte Alessandro da Canossa in the book of contracts. He came to ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... doune and tell me tales, which I fand of the same very stuffe wt our oune, beginning wt that usually Il y avoit un Roy et une Reine, etc., only instead of our red dracons and giants they have lougarous or war-woophs.[202] She told me on a tyme the tale or conte of daupht Jock wt his sotteries, iust as we have it in Scotland. We have laughten no ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder
... doubt fort si je pourrois jamais les souffrire encore, je ne suis pourtant pas en fort mauvaise humeur et je m'en-voy ausi tost que je serai habillee voire ce qu'il est posible de faire pour vostre sattisfaction, apres je viendre vous rendre conte de nos affairs et quoy qu'il en sera vous ne scaurois jamais doubte que je ne vous ayme plus que ...
— The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 • Edward Abbott Parry
... She made up her mind that she would never touch it, so that each day, as long as we lived, we might have at least a piece of bread bought with Babbo's money. Then there was the parish, which gave her some help. The guardians of the poor widows appointed a guardian for us,—the Conte Bertoli, a good man, God rest his soul,—and he applied to the poor widows' fund for La Mamma and got her an allowance of fifty centimes [ten cents] a day until Marc Antonio should be fifteen and able to work; and then the Signor Conte himself added to that twenty centimes ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 • Various
... pocket-book, when he was working on the Last Supper: "Giovannina, fantastic appearance, is at St. Catherine's, at the Hospital; Cristofano di Castiglione is at the Pieta, he has a fine head; Christ, Giovan Conte, is of the suite of Cardinal Mortaro." And so on. From this comes the illusion that the artist imitates nature; when it would perhaps be more exact to say that nature imitates the artist, and obeys him. ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce
... On conte que le celebre general romain Marc-Antoine se livrait quelquefois au divertissement de la peche a la ligne avec la reine d'Egypte, Cleopatre. La reine etait fort adroite; le general avait la main lourde: il n'attrappait jamais ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... vint "tout est perdu," elle le reitera par deux fois; et se tournant de l'autre coste du chevet, elle dit a ses compagnes: "Tout est perdu a ce coup, et a bon escient;" et ainsi deceda. Voila une morte joyeuse et plaisante. Je tiens ce conte de deux de ses compagnes, dignes de foi, qui virent jouer ce mystere' (OEuvres de Brantome, iii. 507). The tune to which this fair lady chose to make her final exit was composed on the defeat of the Swiss of Marignano. ...
— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... parlamentari del Conte Camillo di Cavour. Published by order of the Chamber of Deputies. ...
— Cavour • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... Conte d'Aranda after caressing me affectionately begged me to come and breakfast with him at his boarding-house, telling me that Mdlle. Viar would be glad to ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
... France since 1958, Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. Lansana CONTE (head of the military government) was elected president of the civilian government. He was reelected in 1998. Unrest in Sierra Leone has spilled over into Guinea, threatening stability and creating a ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... old Ghibelline followers of Duke Francesco to obtain the regency for Sforza, Duke of Bari. Cries of Moro! Moro! began to be heard in the streets of Milan. Simonetta, becoming alarmed, threw Donato del Conte, one of the Ghibelline leaders, into prison, upon which Sanseverino and the Sforzas loudly demanded his release. Simonetta gave them fair words in return, and induced the dissatisfied chiefs to meet in the park ...
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright
... extant form of the story of the Holy Grail is the French metrical romance of "Perceval" or "Le Conte du Graal" of Chretien de Troies, written about 1175. Chretien died leaving the poem unfinished, and it was continued by three other authors till it reached the vast size of 63,000 lines. The religious ...
— Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) • Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed |
