A Jay of Italy
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A Jay of Italy

By Bernard Capes
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Length10h 21m

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Excerpt: "On a hot morning, in the year 1476 of poignant memory, there drew up before an osteria on the Milan road a fair cavalcade of travellers. These were Messer Carlo Lanti and his inamorata, together with a suite of tentmen, pages, falconers, bed-carriers, and other personnel of a migratory lord on his way from the cooling hills to the Indian summer of the plains. The chief of the little party, halting in advance of his fellows, lifted his plumed scarlet biretta with one strong young hand, and with the other, his reins hanging loose, ran a cluster of swarthy fingers through his black hair. 'O little host!' he boomed, blaspheming—for all good Catholics, conscious of their exclusive caste, swore by God prescriptively—'O little host, by the thirst of Christ's passion, wine!' 'He will bring you hyssop—by the token, he will,' murmured the lady, who sat her white palfrey languidly beside him. She was a slumberous, ivory-faced creature warm and insolent and lazy; and the little bells of her bridle tinkled sleepily, as her horse pawed, gently rocking her. The cavalier grunted ferociously. 'Let me see him!' and, bonneting himself again, sat with right arm akimbo, glaring for a response to his cry. He looked on first acquaintance a bully and profligate—which he was; but, for his times, with some redeeming features. His thigh, in its close violet hose, and the long blade which hung at it seemed somehow in a common accord of steel and muscle. His jaw was underhung, his brows were very thick and black, but the eyes beneath were good-humored, and he had a great dimple in his cheek".

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length10 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1CHAPTER I
15CHAPTER XVI
2CHAPTER II
16CHAPTER XVII
3CHAPTER III
17CHAPTER XVIII
4CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER XIX
5CHAPTER V
19CHAPTER XX
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6CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER XXI
7CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER XXII
8CHAPTER IX
22CHAPTER XXIII
9CHAPTER X
23CHAPTER XXIV
10CHAPTER XI
24CHAPTER XXV
11CHAPTER XII
25CHAPTER XXVI
12CHAPTER XIII
26CHAPTER XXVII
13CHAPTER XIV
27EPILOGUE
14CHAPTER XV

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