Pleasure (2013)
“To this class, which I would call Arcadian because it rendered its greatest splendor in the sweet life of the eighteenth century, the Sperelli family belonged. Urbanity, elegant writing skills, a love of delicacy, a predilection for unusual studies, a mania for archaeology, refined gallantry, were all hereditary qualities of the house of Sperelli. A certain Alessandro Sperelli, in 1466, had carried to Federigo d’Aragona, the son of Ferdinando, King of Naples, and brother of Alfonso, Duke of Cal...abria, the codex in folio containing some “less coarse” poems of the old Tuscan writers, which Lorenzo de’ Medici had promised in Pisa in ’65; and that same Alessandro had written upon the death of the divine Simonetta,1 in chorus with the sages of the time, a Latin elegy, melancholic and forsaken, in imitation of Tibullus. Another Sperelli, Stefano, in the same century, had been in Flanders amid a life of pomp, of exquisite elegance, of unparalleled Burgundian splendor; and he remained there at the court of Charles le Téméraire, marrying into a Flemish family.MoreLess
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