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New Italian sketches By: John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) |
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NEW ITALIAN SKETCHES. BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, AUTHOR OF "SKETCHES IN ITALY," ETC. COPYRIGHT EDITION. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1884. The Right of Translation is reserved. PREFATORY NOTE.
This volume of New Italian Sketches has been made up from two books
published in England and America under the titles of "Sketches and
Studies in Italy" and "Italian Byways." It forms in some respects a
companion volume to my "Sketches in Italy" already published in the
Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors. But it is quite independent of
that other book, and is in no sense a continuation of it. In making the
selection, I have however followed the same principles of choice. That
is to say, I have included only those studies of places, rather than of
literature or history, which may suit the needs of travellers in Italy. JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. DAVOS PLATZ, Dec. 1883 .
TO CHRISTIAN BUOL AND CHRISTIAN PALMY MY FRIENDS AND FELLOW TRAVELLERS I DEDICATE THIS BOOK. CONTENTS
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AUTUMN WANDERINGS 11 MONTE OLIVETO 34 MONTEPULCIANO 57 SPRING WANDERINGS 84 MAY IN UMBRIA 106 THE PALACE OF URBINO 138 A VENETIAN MEDLEY 169 THE GONDOLIER'S WEDDING 212 FORNOVO 238 BERGAMO AND BARTOLOMMEO COLLEONI 261 LOMBARD VIGNETTES 282 NEW ITALIAN SKETCHES.
AUTUMN WANDERINGS. I. ITALIAM PETIMUS.
Italiam petimus! We left our upland home before daybreak on a clear
October morning. There had been a hard frost, spangling the meadows with
rime crystals, which twinkled where the sun's rays touched them. Men and
women were mowing the frozen grass with thin short Alpine scythes; and
as the swathes fell, they gave a crisp, an almost tinkling sound. Down
into the gorge, surnamed of Avalanche, our horses plunged; and there we
lost the sunshine till we reached the Bear's Walk, opening upon the
vales of Albula, and Julier, and Schyn. But up above, shone morning
light upon fresh snow, and steep torrent cloven slopes reddening with a
hundred fading plants; now and then it caught the grey green icicles
that hung from cliffs where summer streams had dripped. There is no
colour lovelier than the blue of an autumn sky in the high Alps,
defining ridges powdered with light snow, and melting imperceptibly
downward into the warm yellow of the larches and the crimson of the
bilberry. Wiesen was radiantly beautiful: those aƫrial ranges of the
hills that separate Albula from Julier soared crystal clear above their
forests; and for a foreground, on the green fields starred with lilac
crocuses, careered a group of children on their sledges. Then came the
row of giant peaks Pitz d'Aela, Tinzenhorn, and Michelhorn, above the
deep ravine of Albula all seen across wide undulating golden swards,
close shaven and awaiting winter. Carnations hung from cottage windows
in full bloom, casting sharp angular black shadows on white walls... Continue reading book >>
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