World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

by Eva March Tappan

Historical Fiction War & Military Fiction War & Military Art, Design & Architecture

134 chapters18h 54mEnglish1914

About this book

This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part V include Italian painters and poets, the French Revolution, the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese explorers. - Summary by Sonia Cast list for A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century: Gregory: Nemo / Sampson: Tomas Peter / Abraham: Monika M.C. / Benvolio: Eva Davis / Tybalt: Son of the Exiles / First Citizen: SaraHale / Capulet: Jim Locke / Lady Capulet: Foon / Montague: Larry Wilson / Lady Montague: Devorah Allen / Prince of Verona: alanmapstone / Narrator: Sonia Cast list for The coming of the Maid of Orléans: Earl Dunois: Monika M.C. / Johanna: Eva Davis / King Charles: Tomas Peter / Archbishop: Nemo / Hire: alanmapstone / Narrator: Sonia Cast list for Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy: Richelieu: Foon / Julie: Monika M.C. / Huguet: Eva Davis / De Mauprat: Tomas Peter / Joseph: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia

Chapters (134)

1Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece

181

2Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note

170

3The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson

379

4How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower

302

5The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton

456

6Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12

156

7St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan

403

8The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

132

9A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi

766

10Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note

177

11Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester

449

12Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan

387

13Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36

143

14A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare

432

15The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1017

16The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48

155

17Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note

173

18How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles

502

19The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot

858

20Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas

1056

21Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72

153

22The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron

23Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note

177

24Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement

214

25Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement

285

26Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari

1170

27Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story

528

28Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson

520

29Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102

183

30Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari

426

31Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari

444

32Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note

167

33When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott

1603

34How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton

577

35The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

152

36Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark

488

37France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note

159

38The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman

1337

39The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube

283

40The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler

535

41Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube

665

42Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan

416

43Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172

167

44France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note

150

45The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart

623

46How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart

464

47The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

744

48Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192

171

49The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs

620

50France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note

107

51Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo

1917

52Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte

726

53The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles

370

54Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226

171

55King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini

759

56France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note

132

57The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

323

58Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240

136

59Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1329

60In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas

1384

61The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe

679

62Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270

130

63France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note

145

64When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773)

161

65How the queen was served, by Madame Campan

127

66The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan

353

67The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas

786

68The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge

1212

69The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

273

70France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note

162

71The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré

817

72Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316

155

73In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo

973

74Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326

144

75At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens

741

76The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle

1411

77France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note

112

78The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347

177

79The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan

279

80The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo

315

81The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352

213

82The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach

540

83The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous

636

84When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte

161

85Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo

2142

86Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384

168

87The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan

182

88France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note

103

89The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola

1350

90One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton

1330

91The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406

101

92The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418

163

93Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note

120

94The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

650

95The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch

286

96The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus

166

97King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving

1228

98Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

202

99The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

302

100Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note

101The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott

528

102Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458

136

103The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving

855

104The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving

907

105A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper

1018

106Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482

122

107The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving

389

108Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note

109The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan

435

110The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott

750

111The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates

163

112The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

976

113Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude

931

114Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note

147

115Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

337

116Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

606

117The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

1054

118The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever

1469

119Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note

120How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd

1103

121The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo

295

122The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans

339

123The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart

719

124A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart

559

125Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note

126Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske

273

127The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske

436

128The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston

1319

129How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne

857

130The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns

344

131Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note

126

132The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

303

133The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy

1207

134A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd

696

World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

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