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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
all the air and bearing of one born to command. In a letter to Mr. Prescott, written six weeks later, Mr. Ticknor thus sums up his experiences in Florence:— . . . . The society I found still more changed, but not for the better. Of foreign, there was a good deal; but we cared little about it, for it was merely fashionable. Of Italian there was very little. The Marchioness Lenzoni——who, besides being the last descendant of one branch of the Medicis, owns and carefully preserves at Certaldo the house which Boccaccio possessed, and where he died—opened her saloon twice a week, and received the principal Florentine nobility, as well as the men of letters, and I met there Buonarotti, the head of Michel Angelo's family, and the head of the administration of justice for Tuscany,—an eminent and respectable man, whom I was glad to visit in the great artist's house, and to find surrounded with his memorials, and possessing a good many of his characteristic manuscripts. I also kne
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
ldt in a very amusing manner. On first leaving Florence for the North, Mr. and Mrs. Ticknor made a visit of one night to the Marchea Lenzoni, at her villa at Certaldo. Just before entering the last [the modern village of Certaldo], the Medici arms, over rather an imposing gateway, informed us that we had reached the villa oCertaldo], the Medici arms, over rather an imposing gateway, informed us that we had reached the villa of the Marchioness Lenzoni, who had invited us to come and pass a day with her, and see whatever remained of Boccaccio's time, all of it being on her estates. She received us very kindly, and settled us at once in excellent and comfortable rooms. She then sent for her fattore,—or man of business,—for the priest of the place, and for a Florence lawyer, and put us into their hands to show us what we wanted to see in Certaldo, being herself a little indisposed. We passed through the lower village, . . . . and then, climbing a precipitous hill, entered the little nest of stone houses where Boccaccio's fathers lived, and where he himself died and was buried
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
e de, II. 125. Bigelow, Dr., Jacob, I. 12, 316 note, 319, II. 438, 493. Bigelow, J. P., II. 305. Bigelow, Timothy, I. 13. Binney, Horace, II. 37, 46. Birkbeck, Dr , II. 178. Blacas, Duchess de, II. 348, 856. Blake, George, I. 20. Bland, Robert, verses by, II. 482 note, 483. Bligh, President, I. 372. Bliss, Mrs., II. 263. Blumenbach, Madame, I. 103. Blumenbach, Professor, I. 70, 71, 80, 85, 94, 103, 104, 105, 121. Blumner, Madame de, I. 481. Boccaccio's house at Certaldo, II. 91. Bodenhausen, II. 6. Bohl von Faber, I. 236 and note. Bologna, visits, I. 166, II. 47. Bolognetti-Cenci, Count and Countess, II 71. Bombelles. Count, II. 35, 49. Bombelles, Count, Henri, 1. 246, 247, II. 6, 11, 12 Bonaparte, Caroline, widow of Murat, II. 60, 127, 141 Bonaparte, Christine (Countess Posse), I. 182, 183 note, 446. Bonaparte, Emperor Napoleon I., return from Elba, I. 49, Dr. Parr on, 50; Byron's feeling for, 60; anecdotes of, 61, 123. Bona