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Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition By: Edward Hutton (1875-1969) |
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AND NORTHERN TUSCANY WITH GENOA
BY EDWARD HUTTON O rosa delle rose, O rosa bella,
Per te non dormo nè notte nè giorno,
E sempre penso alla tua faccia bella,
Alle grazie che hai, faccio ritorno.
Faccio ritorno alle grazie che hai:
Ch'io ti lasci, amor mio, non creder mai. WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY WILLIAM PARKINSON AND SIXTEEN
OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS SECOND EDITION LONDON, 1907, 1908 TO MY FRIEND WILLIAM HEYWOOD BY THE SAME AUTHOR FREDERIC UVEDALE: A ROMANCE
STUDIES IN THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS
ITALY AND THE ITALIANS
THE CITIES OF UMBRIA
THE CITIES OF SPAIN
SIGISMONDO MALATESTA
COUNTRY WALKS ROUND FLORENCE. ( In the Press ).
ROME. ( In preparation ) [Illustration: FROM THE UFFIZI]
CONTENTS
I. GENOA
II. ON THE WAY
III. PORTO VENERE
IV. SARZANA AND LUNA
V. CARRARA, MASSA DUCALE, PIETRA SANTA, VIAREGGIO
VI. PISA
VII. LIVORNO
VIII. TO SAN MINIATO AL TEDESCO
IX. EMPOLI, MONTELUPO, LASTRA, SIGNA
X. FLORENCE
XI. PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA AND PALAZZO VECCHIO
XII. THE BAPTISTERY THE DUOMO THE CAMPANILE THE OPERA DEL DUOMO
XIII. OR SAN MICHELE
XIV. PALAZZO RICCARDI, AND THE RISE OF THE MEDICI
XV. SAN MARCO AND SAVONAROLA
XVI. SANTA MARIA NOVELLA
XVII. SANTA CROCE
XVIII. SAN LORENZO
XIX. CHURCHES NORTH OF ARNO
XX. OLTR'ARNO
XXI. THE BARGELLO
XXII. THE ACCADEMIA
XXIII. THE UFFIZI
XXIV. THE PITTI GALLERY
XXV. FIESOLE AND SETTIGNANO
XXVI. VALLOMBROSA AND THE CASENTINO
XXVII. PRATO
XXVIII. PISTOJA
XXIX. LUCCA
XXX. OVER THE GARFAGNANA
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR VIEW FROM THE UFFIZI
ON THE ROAD
BADIA A SETTIMO
PONTE VECCHIO
LOGGIA DE' LANZI
PIAZZA DEL DUOMO
OR SAN MICHELE
THE FLOWER MARKET, FLORENCE
CHIOSTRO DI S. MARCO
S. MARIA NOVELLA
OGNISSANTI
VIA GUICCIARDINI
PONTE VECCHIO
THE BOBOLI GARDENS
COSTA DI S. GIORGIO
OUTSIDE THE GATE
IN MONOTONE PORTO VENERE
PISA
WAX MODEL FOR THE PERSEUS IN THE BARGELLO, BENVENUTO CELLINI
THE MADONNA DELLA CINTOLA, BY NANNI DI BANCO, DUOMO, FLORENCE
SINGING BOYS FROM THE CANTORIA OF LUCA DELLA ROBBIA, OPERA DEL DUOMO,
FLORENCE
THE CRUCIFIXION, BY FRA ANGELICO, S. MARCO, FLORENCE
ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, BY DONATELLO, DUOMO, FLORENCE
THE LADY WITH THE NOSEGAY (VANNA TORNABUONI), IN THE BARGELLO, BY ANDREA
VERROCCHIO
"LA NOTTE," FROM TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, BY MICHELANGELO
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS, BY DOMENICO GHIRLANDAJO, ACCADEMIA
THE THREE GRACES, FROM THE PRIMAVERA, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, ACCADEMIA
THE BIRTH OF VENUS, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, UFFIZI GALLERY
THE ANNUNCIATION, BY ANDREA VERROCCHIO, UFFIZI GALLERY
PIETÀ, BY FRA BARTOLOMMEO, PITTI GALLERY
THE TOMB OF ILARIA DEL CARETTO, BY JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA, DUOMO, LUCCA
THE TOMB OF THE MARTYR S. ROMANO IN S. ROMANO, LUCCA, BY MATTEO CIVITALI [Illustration: A MAP OF THE CITIES OF NORTHERN TUSCANY]
I. GENOA I
The traveller who on his way to Italy passes along the Riviera di
Ponente, through Marseilles, Nice, and Mentone to Ventimiglia, or
crossing the Alps touches Italian soil, though scarcely Italy indeed, at
Turin, on coming to Genoa finds himself really at last in the South, the
true South, of which Genoa la Superba is the gate, her narrow streets,
the various life of her port, her picturesque colour and dirt, her
immense palaces of precious marbles, her oranges and pomegranates and
lemons, her armsful of children, and above all the sun, which lends an
eternal gladness to all these characteristic or delightful things,
telling him at once that the North is far behind, that even Cisalpine
Gaul is crossed and done with, and that here at last by the waves of
that old and great sea is the true Italy, that beloved and ancient land
to which we owe almost everything that is precious and valuable in our
lives, and in which still, if we be young, we may find all our dreams... Continue reading book >>
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