Found 34 results for "James J. L'Italien"
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
by Stendhal
The little town of Verrieres is one of the prettiest in Franche-Comte.
by Alexander Pope
HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...
by Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is known almost exclusively as the author of On Crimes and Punishments, a short book on crim...
by Lodovico Ariosto
I SING of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds-all from the time when the Moor...
by Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri
ARMS, and the chief I sing, whose righteous hands
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I SLIPPED out of Carlsbad at three in the morning; otherwise, I would not have been allowed to leave.
by Lorenzo Scupoli, Saint Ḟeofan, Bishop of Tambov and Shatsk
by James Fenimore Cooper
It is easy to foresee that this country is destined to undergo great and rapid changes.