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  • Properly speaking, the entire 'Piccolomini' should constitute the first two acts of a five-act tragedy.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

  • In his "Piccolomini" Max is conversing with the Countess:

    Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

  • 'Piccolomini' should constitute the first two acts of a five-act tragedy.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • [51] See "Piccolomini," act ii., scene 6; and "The Death of

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • [51] See "Piccolomini," act ii., scene 6; and "The Death of

    The Poems of Schiller — Third period Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Enrico Piccolomini saw the chase and was himself in at the finish; and the affair, his one great adventure in the world, gave him wealth as well as material for conversation to the end of his days.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • "And then they are like two dogs, like two beasts," Piccolomini was wont to tell in after-years over a glass of wine in his little hotel in Glen Ellen.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • "And Piccolomini says he never cried out when he was struck, but went on running and jumping," Villa took up enthusiastically.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • Piccolomini also noted that earlier classical writers had painted much the same picture, which is not surprising, since Tacitus himself had never been north of the Alps and must have based much of his text on the testimony of others.

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • For as one of its first Renaissance readers, the humanist scholar Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II, pointed out, the book depicts the ancient Germans as a horde of illiterate, barbaric brutes, living in squalid huts, too idle and drunk to practice farming, let alone the arts.

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

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