Inhaltsangabe
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.1922 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XTV... «May That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony." George Eliot: Oh, May I Join the Choir Invisible. TILIPPO CAMPANELLO had gone to Rome in September, that he might acquire the collection of Greek antiquities of which he had spoken to his friend, the Magnifico. The transaction had filled his visit with that delightful excitement known only to the antiquarian and, once possessed of these bronzes and classic fragments of marble, he could not rest until he had brought them to Campanello. There he had remained, absorbed in classifying the collection, in which fascinating task he was assisted by the explorer himself. Dorian Acamis was an Athenian whose adventures in the then untrodden paths of Greece had brought him to many a forgotten temple whose buried marbles bore witness to the imperishable beauty of a race long vanished from the earth. Sometimes he recovered beautiful forms, sometimes fragments only rewarded his research--a wingless Eros buried beneath the ruins of his shrine, the hand and arm of an Aphrodite, still eloquent of her grace, and faces whose classic beauty was to win lovers in coming ages. Many of these the enterprising Greek had brought to Eome, where the Pope, an ardent patron of the arts, established his reputation and encouraged the Eenaissance of Hellenic Art. After his purchase, Campanello, who had spent a small fortune in the affair, persuaded the Greek to travel North with him and catalogue his treasures and, at his request, Dorian Acanus had stayed on to instruct his patron further in the Greek language. Thus it was that Filippo had remained ignorant of the changes in the Palazzo Corso, which, had he been in Florence, his quick eye would have been the first to note. Not having hea...
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