Monsignore and his "Intendant" are conferring in the palace by the Duomo; and the irony of the situation is now at its height.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
With an epithet or two, with a sharp, incisive phrase, the latter would have conjured the great Dominican from his grave, and we should have seen him, or believed at least that we saw him, as he was in the flesh when his impassioned voice resounded through the Duomo, swaying the hearts of the Florentine people with the force of a great conviction.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
I have been in Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, where the people wept one minute and laughed the next; have heard Canon Liddon in St. Paul's, and the sound of that high, clear voice is still with me, "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion;" have seen High Mass in St. Peter's, and stood in the dusk of the Duomo at Florence when Padre Agostino thundered against the evils of the day.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren