The Bravo: A Tale: Original Text

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

The sun had disappeared behind the summits of the Tyrolean Alps, and the moonwas already risen above the low barrier of the Lido. Hundreds of pedestrians werepouring out of the narrow streets of Venice into the square of St. Mark, like watergushing through some strait aqueduct, into a broad and bubbling basin. Gallantcavalieri and grave cittadini; soldiers of Dalmatia, and seamen of the galleys; damesof the city, and females of lighter manners; jewellers of the Rialto, and traders fromthe Levant; Jew, Turk, and Christian; traveller, adventurer, podest?, valet, avvocato, and gondolier, held their way alike to the common centre of amusement. Thehurried air and careless eye; the measured step and jealous glance; the jest andlaugh; the song of the cantatrice, and the melody of the flute; the grimace of thebuffoon, and the tragic frown of the improvisatore; the pyramid of the grotesque, the compelled and melancholy smile of the harpist, cries of water-sellers, cowls ofmonks, plumage of warriors, hum of voices, and the universal movement and bustle, added to the more permanent objects of the place, rendered the scene the mostremarkable of Christendom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08YHQVFZF
• ISBN13: 9798718656183
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"