Fra Lippo Lippi : A Romance by Margaret Vere Farrington
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Author: Margaret Vere Farrington
Page Count: 234 pages
Published Date: 19 Nov 2013
Publisher: Createspace
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781494228002
File size: 20 Mb
Download Link: Fra Lippo Lippi A Romance
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An excerpt:
"Always, my thoughts will be of her I love," replied Lippi, tenderly. "Remember," and he drew her attention to a road in the plain below that led in the direction of Prato, "remember you, my love, that early morning when we first came to Florence?" and he smiled, as he knew how to both it was as yesterday. Ten years ago! Eh! these days that go all too fast! "Beloved," - and he drew her closer to him with his arm about her, - "before I knew you I knew not myself. I loved the wild whirl of passion - that which had no bounds. Only of myself I thought - the enjoyment of the hour. With you, how changed this world. Happy the day - the hour when at Santa Margharita's I knew your love! Think you," and he kissed her as he smiled, "think you the Pope's dispensation will make you more mine own? No! no!"
"And never for one moment would you listen to what Beatrice- "
"Speak not of her," said Lippi quickly, "know you not, my heart's love, the trust which I have ever had in you? Dio! " and he spoke with flashing eyes, "how I loathe her! hate her! how the very thought of her stings me to the heart's core. Never, never, would I have believed her treacherous!"
He would have continued, but Filippino came running towards them, his hands full of flowers. "See! see!" he cried gleefully, and threw them into his mother's lap as he scampered away for more.
"It is the color that he loves so," Lippi said fondly, as they watched the child upon the hill-side. He, too, will be a painter. Each day he surprises me yet the more. He will be greater than his father," and Lippi laughed heartily; "he must have what I lack, and he inherits that from his mother's nature. Lucrezia, this is a dawn of a wonderful spirit - we shall live to see great painters. There is a youth in Perugia, a gentle lad like Filippino, who loved to stand and gaze while I painted, and he would copy as I drew. One day I gave him the brush and colors to use, and my eyes could hardly believe the luminous color and sentimental grace of the little picture he made. Then there is Tommasio's son, who makes dainty fragments into all manner of delicate garlands for gay ladies - they already call him Ghirlandajo. It is a picture to see him in his dark shop, piercing and twisting the gold and silver filigree, and great ladies in their sweeping gowns and exquisite laces and jewels patting his round cheeks and praising him. But Filippino," - and they fell to building the little air castles for the future.
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