. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras. n, then and there, to make afinal choice and award the golden guerdon,we should encounter almost superhuman diffi-culties. Entranced we first behold Juno and herFlorentine court, and there we fix unhesitatinglyupon the fascinating young bride of the Speechiodeir Eleganza — The Mirror of Fashion —Lorenzo de Tornaboni: Joannae Albitiae, uxori incomparabili,Laurentii Tornabonis ... as sympathetic Angelo Poliziano called her in his Poesie Latine e Greche. Surely MadonnaGiovanna of the Proud Albizzi is matchless,an efhcient example of a duteous daughter, andthe
. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras. n, then and there, to make afinal choice and award the golden guerdon,we should encounter almost superhuman diffi-culties. Entranced we first behold Juno and herFlorentine court, and there we fix unhesitatinglyupon the fascinating young bride of the Speechiodeir Eleganza — The Mirror of Fashion —Lorenzo de Tornaboni: Joannae Albitiae, uxori incomparabili,Laurentii Tornabonis ... as sympathetic Angelo Poliziano called her in his Poesie Latine e Greche. Surely MadonnaGiovanna of the Proud Albizzi is matchless,an efhcient example of a duteous daughter, andthe supreme standard of the refinement of theRenaissance ! The scene changes, and we are in a gondolagliding through the shadows of the Grand who is clinging to her dashing lover is Venusincarnate — the comeliest of all the three*Daughters of Venice, the child of romance,and una cosa di Francesco : her love strongas death, her end with his a tragedy—BiancaCappello. To her the Grand Duke sang hissweetest madrigals : 104. LA BELLA SIMONETTA E LE BEL GIULIO. (Simonetta Vespuccio and Giuliano de Medici). Sandro GALLERY. LONDON. Doges and Daughters upon fair Bianca I fix my of Love and Mirror of the World. Of a truth none more lovely and lovable thanGiovanna and Bianca can be named by loverslips—so whispered their godmothers—Juno andVenus. * Genoa the Proud has heard the confi-dences of the goddesses, and lo ! she lifts herstately coronated head, upon those shapelyshoulders of her Riviere^ and points to a girl-wife of sixteen summers, with Marco, her good-looking boy-husband, scion of the world-famousVespucci—the Star of Genoa.* Inflaminginnamorata of the most comely prince thatever carried off chief honours in the Giostra—Giuliano de Medici—and inspiring model of themost eclectic painter of the worlds premierschool of art—Sandro Botticelli. To nameher our lips pause not—she is La Bella Simon-etta—Simonetta of Genoa — Si
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