We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $81,543,225.67 | Books Available: 800,255 | Members Online: 242

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro

The Shame of Motley being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte of Biancomonte sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Author: Rafael Sabatini

THE SHAME OF MOTLEY Being the Memoir of Certain Transactions in the Life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime Fool of the Coz rto f Pesaro BY RAFAEL SABATINI - 1908 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I. 11. 111. IV. v. v1 v11 VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. xv . XVI . XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. PART I FLOWER OF THE QUINCE THE CARDINAL OF VALENCIA... more » - THE LIVERIES OF SANTAFIOR - MADONNA PAOLA - THE COZENING OF RAMIRO MADONNAS INGRATITUDE FOOLS LUCK - THE SUMMONS FROM ROME l MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN THE FOOL-AT-ARMS THE FALL OF PESARO - PART I1 THE OGRE OF CESENA MADONNAS SUMMONS - THE GOVERNOR OF CESENA POlSON - REQUIESCAT - AN ILL ENCOUNTER IN THE CITADEL OF CESENA THE SENESCHAL - THE LETTER DOOMED - THE SUNSET AVE CAESAR - PART I FLOWER OF THE QUINCE The Shame of Motley - CHAPTER I - THE CARDINAL OF VALENCIA - FOR three days I had been cooling my heels about the Vatican, vexed by suspense. It fretted me that I should have been so lightly dealt with after I had discharged the mission that had brought me all the way from Pesaro, and I wondered how long it might be ere his Most Illustrious Excellency the Cardinal of Valencia might see fit to offer me the honourable employment with which Madonna Lucrezia had promised me that he would reward the service I had rendered the House of Borgia by my journey. Three days were sped, yet nought had happened to signify that things would shape the course by me so ardently desired that the means would be afforded me of mending my miserable ways, and repairing the wreck my life had suffered on the shoals of Fate. True, I had been housed and fed, and the comforts of indolence had been mine but, for the rest, I was still clothed in the livery of folly which I had worn on my arrival, and, wherever I might roam, there followed ever at my heels a crowd of underlings, seeking to have their tedium lightened by jests and capers, and voting me-when their hopes proved barren-the sorriest Fool that had ever worn the motley. In that third day I speak of, my patience tried to its last strand, I had beaten a lacquey with my hands, and fled from the cursed gibes his fellows aimed at me, out into the misty gardens and the chill January air whose sting I could, perhaps, the better disregard by virtue of the heat of indignation that consumed me. Was it ever to be so with me Could nothing lift the curse of folly from me, that I must ever be a Fool, and worse, the sport of other fools It was there on one of the terraces crowning the splendid heights above immortal Rome that Messer Gianluca found me. He greeted me courteously I answered with a snarl, deeming him come to pursue the plaguing from which I had fled. His Most Illustrious Excellency the Cardinal of Valencia is asking for you, Messer Boccadoro, he announced. And so despairing had been my mood of ever hearing such a summons that, for a moment. I accounted it some fresh jest of theirs. But the gravity of his fat countenance reassured me. Let us go, then, I answered with alacrity, and so confident was I that the interview to which he bade me was the first step along the road to better fortune, that I permitted myself a momentary return to the Fools estate from which I thought myself on the point of being for ever freed. I shall use the interview to induce his Excellency to submit a tenth beatitude to the approval of our Holy Father Blessed are the bearers of good tidings. Come on, Messer the seneschal...

ISBN-13: 9781406955712
ISBN-10: 140695571X
Publication Date: 11/3/2006
Pages: 190
Rating:

0 stars, based on 0 rating

Publisher: Hard Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Back to the Top ↑

Search - The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro

Loading...