Zicci, Complete

hough ruined and dismantled, in one of those antique streets from which

their luxury and splendor, and the absence of what men so learned as Zicci was reputed, generally prize, namely, books. Zicc

ants he had brought with him from other cities; the rest he had engaged at Naples. He hired those only whom wealth can make subservient. His expenditure was most lavish, his generosity, regal; but his

The hand of the clock before him pointed to the first hour of morn

inner apartment lighted by a single lamp of extraordinary lustre. The room was small; a few phials and some dried herbs were ranged in shelves on the wall, which was hung with snow-white cloth of coarse texture. From the shelves Zicci selected one of the phials, and poured the contents into a crystal cup. The liquid was colorle