ISBN: 1235684768

[EAN: 9781235684760], Neubuch, BARON EDWARD BULWER LYTTON LYTTON,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchase… Plus…

[EAN: 9781235684760], Neubuch, BARON EDWARD BULWER LYTTON LYTTON,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER III. The Brawl. On an evening in April, 1347, and in one of those wide spaces in which Modern and Ancient Rome seemed blended together, --equally desolate and equally in ruins, --a miscellaneous and indignant populace were assembled. That morning the house of a Roman jeweller had been forcibly entered and pillaged by the soldiers of Martino di Porto, with a daring effrontery which surpassed even the ordinary license of the barons. The sympathy and sensation throughout the city were deep and ominous. Never will I submit to this tyranny! Nor I! Nor I! Nor, by the bones of St. Peter, will I! And what, my friends, is this tyranny to which you will not submit said a young nobleman, addressing himself to the crowd of citizens who, heated, angry, half armed, and with the vehement gestures of Italian passion, were now sweeping down the long and narrow street that led to the gloomy quarter occupied by the Orsini. Ah, my lord! cried two or three of the citizens in a breath; you will right us, --you will see justice done to us: yon are a Colonna. Ha, ha, ha! laughed scornfully one man of gigantic frame, and wielding on high a huge hammer, indicative of his trade. Justice and Colonna! body of God! those names are not often found together. Down with him! down with him! He is an Orsinist, --down with him! cried at least ten of the throng; but no hand was raised against the giant. He speaks the truth, said a second voice, firmly. Ay, that doth he, said a third, knitting his brows and unsheathing his knife, and we will abide by it. The Orsini are tyrants; and the Colonnas are, at the best, as bad. Thou liest in thy teeth, ruffian! cried the young noble, advancing into the press and confronting the last asperser of the Colonna. Before the. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781235684760

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