Maecenases

Maecenases, and in a simple-minded fashion expended, to that end, the millions amassed by their thrifty fathers, and frequently even by their own early labours.

The Mysterious Portrait 2003

As the brothers Du Bellay, who were later his Maecenases, were then studying at the University of Angers, where it is certain he was not a student, it is doubtless from this youthful period that his acquaintance and alliance with them should date.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

As the brothers Du Bellay, who were later his Maecenases, were then studying at the University of Angers, where it is certain he was not a student, it is doubtless from this youthful period that his acquaintance and alliance with them should date.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Maecenases, such as the later Liu Tê, Prince of Ho-chien,6 had made collections of books.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

Maecenases whose panegyrists, writing without concealment in their own names, credited them with every perfection of mind and body, and 'placed them,' in Sidney's apt phrase, 'with Dante's "Beatrice."'

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Soon after this he attracted the attention of the old Prince Esterhazy, all the members of whose family have become known in the history of music as generous Maecenases of the art.

The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878

While accepting service in the modern spirit of subjection, he dreamed of masters who should be Maecenases, and fondly imagined that poets might still live, like Petrarch, on terms of equality with princes.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

A THRONG of carriages and other vehicles stood at the entrance of a house in which an auction was going on of the effects of one of those wealthy art-lovers who have innocently passed for Maecenases, and in

Taras Bulba and Other Tales Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1830

Bellay, who were later his Maecenases, were then studying at the University of Angers, where it is certain he was not a student, it is doubtless from this youthful period that his acquaintance and alliance with them should date.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518