CHAPTER 3.VI.
Tu vegga o per violenzia o per inganno Patire o disonore o mortal danno.
"Orlando Furioso," Cant.xlii.

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(Thou art about, either through violence or artifice, to suffer either dishonour or mortal loss.) It was a small cabinet; the walls were covered with pictures, one of which was worth more than the whole lineage of the owner of the palace.
Oh, yes! Zanoni was right.

The painter IS a magician; the gold he at least wrings from his crucible is no delusion.

A Venetian noble might be a fribble, or an assassin,--a scoundrel, or a dolt; worthless, or worse than worthless, yet he might have sat to Titian, and his portrait may be inestimable,--a few inches of painted canvas a thousand times more valuable than a man with his veins and muscles, brain, will, heart, and intellect! In this cabinet sat a man of about three-and-forty,--dark-eyed, sallow, with short, prominent features, a massive conformation of jaw, and thick, sensual, but resolute lips; this man was the Prince di -- .

His form, above the middle height, and rather inclined to corpulence, was clad in a loose dressing-robe of rich brocade.