Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . uliano. Theirmother, I^ucrezia Tornabuoni, wasa Florentine lady, of simple anddomestic habits, but withal highlyeducated and a writer of lyricsand stories, which, though of acharacter very different indeedfrom the later productions oflyorenzo, may have turned hisearly attention to literature andthe literary possibiHties of thevulgar tongue. I/orenzo differedmuch from the
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . uliano. Theirmother, I^ucrezia Tornabuoni, wasa Florentine lady, of simple anddomestic habits, but withal highlyeducated and a writer of lyricsand stories, which, though of acharacter very different indeedfrom the later productions oflyorenzo, may have turned hisearly attention to literature andthe literary possibiHties of thevulgar tongue. I/orenzo differedmuch from the more handsomeand less intellectual Giuliano. He was, says Valori, one of hisassociates, fairly tall, broad-shouldered, active, weak-sighted,with depressed nose and without any sense of smell. Themany portraits that we possess of him in pictures and medals—among which are the frescos of Benozzo Gozzoli and variouscelebrated works of Botticelli and the truly terrible paintingby Vasari^—show him first as a lively and attractive boy, ayouth of well-knit frame and not undignified bearing; then, atabout forty years, as a large-boned, loosely-built, prematurelyaged man with the naturally disagreeable features of his face. {See Notes to Illustrations) ^ So called by Mr. Gardner, who observes that it is as eloquent a sermonagainst the iniquity of tyranny as any preached by Savonarola. The protrud-ing lower jaw was noticed by Professor Villari when (in 1895) I^orenzos tombwas opened. In several works, the Magnificat Madonna, Botticelli uses,considerably idealized, the type of Lorenzos boyish face, and that of Giuliano ;and in the Primavera he introduces Giuliano ideaUzed as Hermes. In theAdoration of the Magi he gives actual portraits of Cosimo, Piero, and his twosons. See notes to Figs. 30, 31, 40.
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