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The God of Love By: Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy (1860-1936) |
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BY JUSTIN HUNTLY McCARTHY AUTHOR OF "THE GORGEOUS BORGIA" "SERAPHICA"
"IF I WERE KING" ETC. "The God of Love ah, Benedicite ,
How mighty and how great a lord is he!"
CHAUCER. NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMIX
Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved Published October, 1909.
TO JUSTIN McCARTHY
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE I. THE MAY DAY QUEEN 1
II. A CHILD AND A CHILD 28
III. VITTORIA 46
IV. THE WORDS OF THE IMAGE 54
V. ONE WAY WITH A QUARREL 66
VI. LOVER AND LASS 80
VII. CONCERNING POETRY 92
VIII. MONNA VITTORIA SENDS ME A MESSAGE 108
IX. MADONNA VITTORIA SOUNDS A WARNING 120
X. THE DEVILS OF AREZZO 131
XI. MESSER FOLCO'S FESTIVAL 138
XII. DANTE READS RHYMES 144
III. GO BETWEENS 164
XIV. MESSER SIMONE SPOILS SPORT 176
XV. A SPY IN THE NIGHT 190
XVI. THE TALK OF LOVERS 204
XVII. A STRANGE BETROTHAL 215
XVIII. A WORD FOR MESSER SIMONE 225
XIX. THE RIDE IN THE NIGHT 243
XX. THE FIGHT WITH THOSE OF AREZZO 256
XXI. MALEOTTI BEARS FALSE WITNESS 266
XXII. THE RETURN OF THE REDS 279
XXIII. THE PEACE OF THE CITY 286
XXIV. BREAKING THE PEACE 297
XXV. MEETING AND PARTING 309
XXVI. THE ENEMY AT THE GATE 322
XXVII. THE SOLITARY CITY 335
NOTE 343
THE GOD OF LOVE
I THE MAY DAY QUEEN
This is the book of Lappo Lappi, called by his friends the careless, the
happy go lucky, the devil may take it, the God knows what. Called by his
enemies drinker, swinker, tumbler, tinker, swiver. Called by many women
that liked him pretty fellow, witty fellow, light fellow, bright fellow,
bad fellow, mad fellow, and the like. Called by some women who once
loved him Lapinello, Lappinaccio, little Lappo. Called now in God as a
good religious should be, Lappentarius, from a sweet saint myself
discovered or invented; need we quibble? in an ancient manuscript. And
it is my merry purpose now, in a time when I, that am no longer merry,
look back upon days and hours and weeks and months and years that were
very merry indeed, propose to set down something of my own jolly doings
and lovings, and incidentally to tell some things about a friend of
mine that was never so merry as I was, though a thousand times wiser;
and never so blithe as I was, though a thousand times the better man.
For it seems to me now, in this cool grim grayness of my present way,
with the cloisters for my kingdom and the nimbused frescoes on the walls
for my old time ballads and romances, as if my life that was so sunburnt
and wine sweetened and woman kissed, my life that seemed to me as
bright, every second of it, as bright ducats rushing in a pleasant
plenteous stream from one hand to another, was after all intended to be
no more than a kind of ironic commentary on, and petty contrast to, the
life of my friend. He and I lived our youth out in the greatest and fairest of all cities
that the world has ever seen, greater a thousand times than Troy or
Nineveh, or Babylon or Rome, and when I say this you will know, of
course, that I speak of the city of Florence, and we lived and loved at
the same time, lived and loved in so strangely different a fashion that
it seems to me that if the two lives were set side by side after the
fashion of Messer Plutarch of old days, they would form as diverting a
pair of opposites as any student of humanity could desire for his
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