Don Tarquinio: A Kataleptic Phantasmatic Romance (Valancourt EClassics) - Plot & Excerpts
The eighth was my fortunate day. I will set down the history of the said day, a.d. vij Kal. Mar., being the day of Mars in the year MCCCCLXXXXV. Divine Phoibos was finishing his course, and his radiant horses were about to plunge into the ocean-stream, when the Most Illustrious Lord Cardinal-Δ. of Santa Lucia in Silice alias in Orfea, Prince Ippolito d’Este of Ferrara, with me, Prince Tarquinio Georgio Drakontoletes Poplicola di Hagiostayros,[1] came from a certain meadow beyond the Milvian Bridge[2] where we had been playing at great-ball.[3] A pair of patrician pages had played on his side, which was red; and another pair played on my side, which was blue: but the red were victorious. I cannot remember the names of the said pages: nor is it of importance that I should remember them. Many persons have thrown the great-ball since Deykalion threw stones; and the names of the throwers have gone down into oblivion. These throwers were among those. Having come to the bank of Tiber, we ascended the cardinalitial barge.
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