Citations:Vicentine


 * 1611,, Coryat’s Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome, : Printed at the University Press by Robert MacLehose & Company Ltd. for James MacLehose and Sons, publishers to the (1905), volume II: Containing his Observations of Vicenza, Verona, Brescia, Bergamo, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons Country, Helvetia, Some Parts of High Germany, Strasburg, Heidelberg, Worms, Mayence, Frankfort, Cologne and Gelderland, chapter i: “My Observations of Vicenza, in Latin Vincentia and Vicetia”, §: ‘Two courteous Italian gentlemen’, page 13:
 * For the sight of most of these notable things that I enjoyed in this faire citie, I doe acknowledge my self exceedingly beholding to two Italian yong Gentlemen that were Vicentines borne, whose names were Thomas de Spanivellis, and Joannes Nicoletis; especially to one of them, who kept me company almost all that day that I spent there, and conducted me from place to place till he had shewed me all the principall things of the citie.
 * 1665, John Webb, A Vindication of Stone-Heng Reſtored: In which the Orders and Rules of Architecture Obſerved by the Ancient Romans, Are Diſcuſſed (second edition, 1725) in The Moſt Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Saliſbury Plain, Reſtored, By Inigo Jones, Eſq; Architect General to the King. To which are added, The Chorea Gigantum, or, Stone-Heng Reſtored to the Danes, By Doctor Charleton; and Mr. Webb’s Vindication of Stone-Heng Reſtored, In Anſwer to Dr. Charleton’s Reflections; with Obſervations upon the Orders and Rules of Architecture in Uſe among the Antient Romans. (1725), page 24:
 * Firſt then, as it cannot be denied but that it is great, ſo the Materials and Area thereof demonſtrate the ſame; for it is in the main Structure 110 Foot Diameter, not very much leſs than the Diameter within, of that ſo famouſly great Pantheon at Rome, the Difference between our meaſuring Foot, and the Vicentine allowed.
 * 1776?, Mr. Ferber in Encyclopædia; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miſcellaneous Literature; Conſtructed on a Plan, by which the different Sciences and Arts Are digeſted into the Form of Diſtinct Treatiſes or Syſtems, comprehending the Hiſtory, Theory, and Practice, of each, According to the Lateſt Diſcoveries and Improvements; and full Explanations given of the various detached Parts of Knowledge, whether relating to Natural and Artificial Objects, or to Matters Eccleſiaſtical, Civil, Military, Commercial, &c. Including Elucidations of the moſt important Topics relative to Religion, Morals, Manners, and the Oeconomy of Life: together with, A Deſcription of all the Countries, Cities, principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, &c. throughout the World; A General Hiſtory, Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States; and, An Account of the Lives of the moſt Eminent Perſons in every Nation, from the earlieſt ages down to the preſent times. (1798), volume IX: HYD–LAN, s.v. “Lava”, § 7: ‘By Mr Ferber’, page 587/1:
 * In Mr Ferber’s travels through Italy, we are informed, that he has ſeen a ſpecies of lava ſo exactly reſembling blue iron ſlags, that it was not to be diſtinguiſhed from them but with great difficulty. The ſame author tells us likewiſe, that, “the Vicentine and Veroneſe lavas and volcanic aſhes contain incloſed ſeveral ſorts of fire-ſtriking and flint-horn ſtones, of a red, black, white, green, and variegated colour, ſuch as jaſpers and agates; that hyacinths, chryſolites, and pietre obſidiane, deſcribed by Mr Arduini in his Giornale d’Italia, are found at Leonedo; and that chalcedony or opal pebbles, and noduli with incloſed water-drops, (chalcedonii opali enhydri), are dug out of the volcanic cineritious hills near Vicenza.
 * 1940, George Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley and Joan Berkeley, Italy in the Making, volume III: January 1st 1848 to November 16th 1848, (first paperback edition, 2010), ISBN 9780521158657, chapter xvi: “Radetzky’s swoop. Curtatone and Montanara. Goito. Vicenza. May 29th to June 10th”, :
 * On June 10th the action began, some time before dawn, with an attack on the Berico hills.⁵⁴ They were defended by the pick of Durando’s men, two Swiss battalions (1351 men),⁵⁵ the 3rd Roman legion (1000 strong), mostly Romagnols, and 300 men of the Venetian and Paduan volunteers, all under the command of Massimo d’Azeglio and Colonel Cialdini.⁵⁶ Culoz’ men advanced from Arcugnano, and soon carried the village of Santa Margherita, and after that the Castel Rambaldo.⁵⁷ These points were occupied by several companies of Swiss, and Civici of the Roman legion, but they were too far from Vicenza to be seriously defended. The men fell back about a quarter of a mile to the Villa Bella Guardia.⁵⁸ At that point there was a blockhouse, with a red flag flying above it, and in it were posted several companies of the Vicentine and Paduan volunteers. These defenders made more resistance, […] ⁵⁴ Culoz ordered his men to start at 3 a.m.: Fabris, iii, 99. ⁵⁵ The 1st battalion of the 1st Swiss Regiment and the 2nd battalion of the 2nd Swiss Regiment. ⁵⁶ The 3rd Roman legion under Gallieno was sent up after the firing began. ⁵⁷ One of the present writers lived for several months on Monte Berico, but can write no description so vivid as the following: “The Berici crest, along the top of which a country road winds to Vicenza, is at some places so narrow as to be little broader than the road itself. On both sides the ground falls away steeply into the plain several hundred feet below.…But here and there the crest broadens out into a considerable acreage, and it was the business of the Italians and Swiss to hold these hill platforms, while the Austrians forced their way along the sides of the difficult scarp below, or tried to rush the bottle-neck passages on the crest.” Trevelyan, Manin, p. 191. ⁵⁸ Or Bella Vista.
 * 1961 November, Ernest Beaumont, “, 1842–1911” in , New Series: volume XXVI: № 5 (overall: volume CCXII: № 1,131), :
 * Modern Italy has had few outstanding creative writers distinguished by a positively Christian vision. Indeed, only Manzoni and Fogazzaro fulfil this ideal, but whereas the former, thanks largely to Mr. Colquhoun and Mr. Bernard Wall, has now received his due, the latter, once widely read in this country, still requires to be brought to the attention of present-day readers. In Italy itself, Piccolo mondo antico, usually regarded as this Vicentine writer’s masterpiece, is often acclaimed as the finest achievement in fiction after I Promessi Sposi, and it is astonishing that this serene work of Fogazzaro’s middle life, one of the few in all literature which portray family life, should no longer form part of our general literary consciousness.