"Campana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... action was rapidly decided on. Before him he had five hundred armed men, and behind him a precipice thirty feet high: he sprang from the jagged rock on which he was standing, and alighting on the sand, jumped up safe and sound. General Franceschetti and his aide-de-camp Campana were able to accomplish the jump in the same way, and all three went rapidly down to the sea through the little wood which lay within a hundred yards of the shore, and which hid them for a few moments from ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - MURAT--1815 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... walls covered with ancient grotesques, both executed in relief with stucco and painted, and said to be very beautiful, he devoted several months to studying them on the spot. Nor was he content until he had drawn every least thing in the Campana, an ancient road in that place, full of antique sepulchres; and he also drew many of the temples and grottoes, both above and below the ground, at Trullo, near the seashore. He went to Baia and Mercato di Sabbato, ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto • Giorgio Vasari
... quanti holus ac far, Fallacem circum vespertinumque pererro Saepe forum, adsisto divinis. Inde domum me Ad porri et ciceris refero laganique catinum; 115 Cena ministratur pueris tribus, et lapis albus Pocula cum cyatho duo sustinet, astat echinus Vilis, cum patera guttus, Campana supellex. Deinde eo dormitum, non sollicitus, mihi quod cras Surgendum sit mane, obeundus Marsya, qui se 120 Voltum ferre negat Noviorum posse minoris. Ad quartam iaceo; post hanc vagor, aut ego, lecto Aut scripto quod me tacitum iuvet, unguor olivo, Non quo fraudatis immundus Natta ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce |
