Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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vedi in si dolci attiDormire, fu da un Angelo scolpitaIn questo sasso, e perche dorme, ha vita :Destala se nol crcdi, e parleratti. To which Michael Angelo replies: Grato m c il sonno, e piu 1 csser di sasso ;Mentre che il danno e la vergogna duraNon veder, non sentir m e gran ventura ;Pero non mi destar ; deh parla basso V:—Translator s note. ORLANDINTS BEER-GARDEN, FLORENCE. FLORENCE. 167 palace. And this task most persons who have visited Florence will own that herarchitects have successfully accomplished. The ancient city dwellings—of the nobles atleast,—were frowning fortresses, surmounted by battlements and towers, and with massivelimestone walls, in which, at a great height, a few Gothic arched windows divided by acentral column were sparingly introduced. The finest specimen of such an urban fortressis the Bargello, the old town-hall, in the very heart of Florence. We enter it through amagnificent courtyard partly surrounded by open arcades, or loggie, and richly adorned
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FOUNTAIN OF THE PORCELLINO IN THE MERCATO NUOVO. with coats of arms in carved stone-work. A broad and noble external staircase leads fromthis courtyard to the upper halls, which are now rich in the original colouring of theirfrescoes. (Some years ago these were entirely hidden beneath a coating of zvhiteivash ! )They are spacious apartments with huge Gothic fire-places, and surmounted by roofs ofcarved rafters, or else by vaulted ceilings. In the chapel of the palace is to be seen infresco a portrait of Dante at thirty-five years of age. It is a mild countenance of remark-ably delicate outline, and does not yet wear the eagle aspect of the author of the DivinaCommedia, worn by suffering, sorrow, and patriotic lamentations over the decay of hisnative land. Brunelleschi was a creator and originator in architecture. He designed the PittiPalace,—the first and most colossal attempt on record, to construct an artistic facade outof unhewn blocks of stone. The masses of stone are only cut a

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