The Institutes 535 CE part 2
II. Natural, Common, and Civil Law.
The law of nature is that law which nature teaches to all animals. For this law does not belong...
The Institutes 535 CE part 1
The Institutes 535 CE
Under the direction of Tribonian, the Corpus Iurus Civilis was issued in three parts, in Latin, at the order of...
The Venetian Silk-Mercer part 6
I know that he is a familiar friend, very dear to you, and that you love him as well as woman ever loved such...
The Venetian Silk-Mercer part 5
“Then let him come. Why do not you show him in?” answered a voice that startled our poor tradesman, as he hastened to obey...
The Venetian Silk-Mercer part 4
“Then,” returned Messer Gherardo, “I am the man who found the bracelet; but I will never restore it, except it be to the lady...
The Venetian Silk-Mercer part 3
When he heard it amounted to at least two hundred ducats, he suddenly bethought him of the richly dressed lady who stood near him...
The Venetian Silk-Mercer part 2
Messer Gherardo turned his eyes towards her a few moments, anxious to profit by so lovely and edifying an example, without the least alloy...
The Venetian Silk-Mercer part 1
Carlo Gozzi (1720—1806)
After the first outburst of the Renaissance, Italy entered upon a period of intellectual and artistic decline extending into the Nineteenth Century;...
The Specter Bridegroom part 13
How long the good old lady would have observed this promise is uncertain, for she dearly loved to talk of the marvelous, and there...
The Specter Bridegroom part 12
But, whatever may have been the doubts entertained, they were completely put to an end by the arrival, next day, of regular missives confirming...
