sabato 27 aprile 2013

the square universal of all professions in the world

A book on all trades in the world write by Tommaso Garzoni  in the 1585 ,analyzes all the professions in the sixteenth century with La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo.
some professions are present in the text read by me for the inspiration of the blog carry some quotes and individual professions:

 "Passepartout thought seemed like ambassadors, succeeded the bustling crowd. Each time a company passed, Passepartout chuckled, and said to himself: ‘Good! another Japanese embassy departing for

Europe!’" (chapter XXII)
-ambassadors page 473

"That gentleman was not included in any Council of Directors, his name had never heard him speak in
a panel of lawyers, nor to the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's"    (chapter I)

-lawyers page 100


"They were Mr. Fogg’s usual partners at whist: Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers."   (chapter XXXVI)
-bankers page 401

"On going into a barber’s to get shaved he learned that these ancient men were all at least eighty years old, at which age they are permitted to wear yellow, which is the Imperial colour."   (chapter XIX)
-barber page 627

"San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849 a city of bandits, assassins, and incendiaries, who had flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder."     (chapter XXV)
-bandits page 596

"‘Sir,’ said Mr. Fogg to the captain, ‘three passengershave disappeared."   (chapter XXX)
-captains page 466



"If you do not you had the thought of marriage, my servant is not would have gone to the canonical Samuel Wilson, I would not be warned of my error, and ..."   (chapter XXXVII)

-canonical page 44



" At half past eight,  he said, will appear before the judge Obadiah."   (chapter XV)
-judges pag 652


"Little by little the scene on the quay became more animated; sailors of various nations, merchants, ship-brokers, porters, fellahs, bustled to and fro as if the steamer were immediately expected."     (chapter VI)
-merchants page 401



                                                       the text is available Here
cover of the square universal of all professions in the world

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