What is "ascoli"

Usage examples of "ascoli".

If I brought her up to your church door one of these days, as Fabio d'Ascoli's betrothed, you would be glad enough to take the rest of the business off my hands, and make her Fabio d'Ascoli's wife.

I hate Fabio d'Ascoli and Maddalena Lomi--singly as man and woman, doubly as man and wife.

Seeing this, he, in his turn, listened as the two women slowly walked away together, and heard the Italian say to her companion: "Virginie, I will lay you the price of a new dress that Fabio d'Ascoli marries again.

Two hours later, Fabio d'Ascoli and his wife were separated in this world forever.

ABOUT eight months after the Countess d'Ascoli had been laid in her grave in the Campo Santo, two reports were circulated through the gay world of Pisa, which excited curiosity and awakened expectation everywhere.

The second report was, that the rich widower, Fabio d'Ascoli, was on the point of returning to Pisa, after having improved his health and spirits by traveling in foreign countries.

All the single ladies would now have been ready to bet, as confidently as Brigida had offered to bet eight months before, that Fabio d'Ascoli would marry again.

The last news from Pisa that had appealed to her sympathies was the news of the Countess D'Ascoli's death, and of Fabio's departure to travel in foreign countries.

THE death of Maddalena d'Ascoli produced a complete change in the lives of her father and her uncle.

His most regular visits were to the Ascoli Palace, to inquire at the porter's lodge after the health of Maddalena's child, who was always reported to be thriving admirably under the care of the best nurses that could be found in Pisa.

A little later her surprise was increased by his sending her with a note to the Ascoli Palace, and by the quick return of an answer, brought ceremoniously by one of Fabio's servants.

If any one inquires for me, tell them that I am gone to the Ascoli Palace.

To-morrow--ten o'clock--the wicket-gate at the back of the Ascoli gardens.

SIGNOR ANDREA D'ARBINO, searching vainly through the various rooms in the palace for Count Fabio d'Ascoli, and trying as a last resource, the corridor leading to the ballroom and grand staircase, discovered his friend lying on the floor in a swoon, without any living creature near him.

Could there be any harm, any forgetfulness of her own duty, in using the key inclosed in the note, and keeping her appointment in the Ascoli gardens at ten o'clock?