Travelling Sketches : in the North of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine.- (Heath's picturesque annual ; 1832)
Pagina 170 di 317
Autore:
Leitch, Ritchie / Leitch Ritchie
Luogo:
London
Editore:
Longman [u.a.]
Descrizione fisica:
IV, 256 S. : Ill.
Lingua:
Englisch
Commenti:
mit 26 Stahlstichen
Soggetto:
g.Oberitalien;f.Reisebericht ; <br>g.Tirol;f.Reisebericht
Segnatura:
II 185.432
ID interno:
240277
THE SCOUBGE OP GOD. 145 took place between Attila and Pope Leo I. The ' Scourge of God' had overrun almost the whole of Northern Italy, and was preparing to roll the devastating torrent of his Huns over the south. The senate assembled in consternation at Rome, and the flight of the emperor was actually pro posed, when the happier idea suggested itself of a mission to the barbarian ; and some senators, headed by Saint Leo, the pontiff himself, set out for the Benacus. Attila, instead of rending
the holy man to pieces, like a ravening beast, lay down before him like a lamb. He granted the peace he desired, called back his blood-hounds, and recrossed the Danube, from whence he returned no more. Some catholic authors, to render the miracle more mira culous—or rather to give the honour to their trumpery saints, which is in reality due only to genius or eloquence—have invented a romance on the occasion. They say that Attila, being questioned by his wondering chiefs, after Leo retired