TAILIEUCHUNG - Historic Boyhoods

A privateer was leaving Genoa on a certain June morning in 1461, and crowds of people had gathered on the quays to see the ship sail. Dark-hued men from the distant shores of Africa, clad in brilliant red and yellow and blue blouses or tunics and hose, with dozens of glittering gilded chains about their necks, and rings in their ears, jostled sun-browned sailors and merchants from the east, and the fairer-skinned men and women of the north. Genoa was a great seaport in those days, one of the greatest ports of the known world, and her fleets sailed forth to trade with Spain and Portugal,. | Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland 1 HISTORIC BOYHOODS RUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND Part IV appeared and with it the character Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland The Project Gutenberg eBook Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Historic Boyhoods Author Rupert Sargent Holland Release Date January 18 2008 eBook 24354 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORIC BOYHOODS E-text prepared by David Garcia Graeme Mackreth and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 2 4 3 5 24354 24354-h or Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland 2 http dirsZ2Z4 3Z5 24354 Images of the original pages are available through Kentuckiana Digital Library. See http text text-idx c kyetexts cc kyetexts xc 1 idno B92-224-31182809 view toc HISTORIC BOYHOODS by RUPERT S. HOLLAND Author of The Count at Harvard Builders of United Italy etc. Illustration THE FLEET OF COLUMBUS NEARING AMERICA Philadelphia George W. Jacobs Company Publishers Copyright 1909 by George W. Jacobs and Company Published October 1909 All rights reserved Printed in U. . To the dear memory of . The thanks of the author are due the Century Company for permission to reprint certain of these stories which appeared in Saint Nicholas in shorter form. CONTENTS I. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The Boy of Genoa II. MICHAEL ANGELO The Boy of the Medici Gardens III. .

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