Historic Boyhoods

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Rupert Sargent Holland. Historic Boyhoods

Historic Boyhoods

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I

Christopher Columbus

The Boy of Genoa: 1446(?)-1506

II

Michael Angelo

The Boy of the Medici Gardens: 1475–1564

III

Walter Raleigh

The Boy of Devon: 1552–1618

IV

Peter the Great

The Boy of the Kremlin: 1672–1725

V

Frederick the Great

The Boy of Potsdam: 1712–1788

VI

George Washington

The Boy of the Old Dominion: 1732–1799

VII

Daniel Boone

The Boy of the Frontier: 1735–1820

VIII

John Paul Jones

The Boy of the Atlantic: 1747–1792

IX

Mozart

The Boy of Salzburg: 1756–1791

X

Lafayette

The Boy of Versailles: 1757–1834

XI

Horatio Nelson

The Boy of the Channel Fleet: 1758–1805

XII

Robert Fulton

The Boy of the Conestoga: 1765–1815

XIII

Andrew Jackson

The Boy of the Carolinas: 1767–1845

XIV

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Boy of Brienne: 1769–1821

XV

Walter Scott

The Boy of the Canongate: 1771–1832

XVI

James Fenimore Cooper

The Boy of Otsego Hall: 1789–1851

XVII

John Ericsson

The Boy of the Göta Canal: 1803–1889

XVIII

Garibaldi

The Boy of the Mediterranean: 1807–1882

XIX

Abraham Lincoln

The Boy of the American Wilderness: 1809–1865

XX

Charles Dickens

The Boy of the London Streets: 1812–1870

XXI

Otto von Bismarck

The Boy of Göttingen: 1815–1898

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Rupert Sargent Holland

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The triumphal procession of Paulus Æmilius on the morrow after the little scene in the gardens was an all-day revel. The good folk of Florence left their shops and homes and lined the streets, and for hours floats drawn by prancing horses and picturing great scenes in Roman history passed before the delighted people's eyes. Among the warriors, the heroes, the nymphs and fauns, they recognized their neighbors' children or their own sons and daughters; they were all parcel of it; it was their own triumph as well as Rome's. Girls sang and danced and smiled, boys posed and cheered and played heroic parts, the whole youth of the city spent the day in fairy-land.

Chief among the boys was the little group of artists who were studying in Lorenzo's mansion, and chief among these Granacci, who was Master of the Revels, Paolo Tornabuoni, who made a wonderful Apollo, seated on a golden globe playing upon a lyre, and the dark-browed Michael Angelo, clad in a tunic, one of the noble youth of early Rome. His father, Ludovico Buonarotti, and his mother, Francesca, were in the crowd that watched him pass.

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