Crossword-Solution: ALTISSIMO 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Then one shall propose in a speech (curt Tuscan, Expurgate and sober, with scarcely an “issimo”), To end now our half-told tale of Cambuscan, And turn the bell-tower’s ALT to ALTISSIMO; And, fine as the beak of a young beccaccia, The Campanile, the Duomo’s fit ally, Shall soar up in gold full fifty braccia, Completing Florence, as Florence, Italy.

For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell; _Ascendam_, _et ero similis altissimo_: by aspiring to be like God in knowledge, man transgressed and fell; _Eritis sicut Dii_, _scientes bonum et malum_: but by aspiring to a similitude of God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed, or shall transgress.

Quid verň tandem est animi nautis, qui in mari procelloso videntes scopulum, vel, vt Munsterus, Insulam perexiguam emergere, non vitent potius omni studio, allisionem et naufragium metuentes, quŕm vt in portu parum tuto quiescere tentent? Sed vbi anchora figenda? Solent enim, vt plurimum deesse nautis tam immensi funes, vt in altissimo ćquore anchoram demittant: Igitur in dorsis cetorum, respondet Munsterus.

Nosotros debemos dar gracias al Altissimo, por haver sido servido dexarnos castigar ultimamente, a los robadores, de sus santas Yglesias.

But how shall we _parle_ concerning his _voix_? That exquisite organ, whose _falsetto_ emulated the sweetness of flutes, and reached to A flat _in altissimo_--the _voce media_ of which possessed an unequalled _aplomb_, whose deep double G must still find a well-in-tune echo in the _tympanum_ of every _amateur_ of taste.