How Long to Read A Jay of Italy

How Long Does it Take to Read A Jay of Italy?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read A Jay of Italy by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

On a hot morning, in the year 1476 of poignant memory, there drew up before an osteria on the Milan road a fair cavalcade of travellers. These were Messer Carlo Lanti and his inamorata, together with a suite of tentmen, pages, falconers, bed-carriers, and other personnel of a migratory lord on his way from the cooling hills to the Indian summer of the plains. The chief of the little party, halting in advance of his fellows, lifted his plumed scarlet biretta with one strong young hand, and with the other, his reins hanging loose, ran a cluster of swarthy fingers through his black hair. 'O little host!' he boomed, blaspheming--for all good Catholics, conscious of their exclusive caste, swore by God prescriptively--'O little host, by the thirst of Christ's passion, wine!' 'He will bring you hyssop--by the token, he will,' murmured the lady, who sat her white palfrey languidly beside him. She was a slumberous, ivory-faced creature warm and insolent and lazy; and the little bells of her bridle tinkled sleepily, as her horse pawed, gently rocking her. The cavalier grunted ferociously. 'Let me see him!' and, bonneting himself again, sat with right arm akimbo, glaring for a response to his cry. He looked on first acquaintance a bully and profligate--which he was; but, for his times, with some redeeming features. His thigh, in its close violet hose, and the long blade which hung at it seemed somehow in a common accord of steel and muscle. His jaw was underhung, his brows were very thick and black, but the eyes beneath were good-humored, and he had a great dimple in his cheek. A murmur of voices came from the inn, but no answer whatever to the demand. The building, glaring white as a rock rolled into the plains from the great mountains to the north, had a little bush of juniper thrust out on a staff above its door. It looked like a dry tongue protruded in derision, and awoke the demon in Messer Lanti. He turned to a Page:--'Ercole!' he roared, pointing; 'set a light there, and give these hinds a lesson!' The lady laughed, and, stirring a little, watched the page curiously. But the boy had scarcely reached the ground when the landlord appeared bowing at the door. The cavalier fumed. 'Ciacco--hog!' he thundered: 'did you not hear us call?' 'Illustrious, no.' 'Where were your ears? Nailed to the pillory?' 'Nay, Magnificent, but to the utterances of the little Parablist of San Zeno.' 'O hog! now by the Mass, I say, they had been better pricked to thy business. O ciacco, I tell thee thy Parablist was like, in another moment, to have addressed thee out of a burning bush. What! I would drink, swine! And, harkee, somewhere from those deep vats of thine the perfume of an old wine of Cana rises to my nostrils. I say no more. Despatch!' The landlord, abasing himself outwardly, took solace of a private curse as he turned into the shadow of his porch-- 'These skipjacks of the Sforzas! limbs of a country churl!'

How long is A Jay of Italy?

A Jay of Italy by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Jay of Italy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read A Jay of Italy aloud.

What Reading Level is A Jay of Italy?

A Jay of Italy is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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