Vulgar words in The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Page 1)
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Then, turning to some gentlemen present there, he added that Francia was "a blockhead."
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Leo delighted in the society of clever people, poetasters, petty scholars, lutists, and buffoons.
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He stopped several months with a mule and a little mule in grand style, doing nothing but fish and make love.
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Here we have the sarcophagi in pairs, recumbent figures stretched upon a shallow curve inverted, colossal orders of a bastard Ionic type, a great central niche framing a seated Madonna, two male figures in side niches, suggestive of Giuliano and Lorenzo as they were at last conceived, four allegorical statues, and, to crown the whole structure, candelabra of a peculiar shape, with a central round, supported by two naked genii.
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The Emperor Charles V. signed her liberties away to Clement by the peace of Barcelona (June 20,1529), and the Republic was now destined to be the appanage of his illegitimate daughter in marriage with the bastard Alessandro de' Medici.
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Malatesta Baglioni, albeit he went about muttering that Florence "was no stable for mules" (alluding to the fact that all the Medici were bastards), approved of the articles, and showed by his conduct that he had long been plotting treason.
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The man who had fortified Florence against the troops of Clement could not assist another bastard Medici to build a strong place for her ruin.
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The saws, the carding-combs, the crosses, and the grid-irons, all subserve the same purpose of reminding Christ that, if He does not damn the wicked, confessors will have died with Him in vain.
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The architectural design is nondescript, corresponding to no recognised style, unless it be a bastard Roman Doric.
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He calls the cornice barbarous, confused, bastard in style, discordant with the rest of the building, and so ill suited to the palace as, if carried out, to threaten the walls with destruction.
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Like the jackass in the fable, they assumed the dead lion's skin, and brayed beneath it, thinking they could roar."
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Being himself of a saturnine humour, he took great delight in the society of persons little better than buffoons.
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Another of Michelangelo's buffoon friends was a Florentine celebrity, Piloto, the goldsmith.