Identifier: eightjourneysabr00rose (find matches)
Title: Eight journeys abroad
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosengarten, Mary D. Richardson, 1846-1913 Rosengarten, Frank H
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Algeria -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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di Medici executed by Michael Angelo. The finestpart of the church is the Medicean chapel, built in circularform with a magnificent dome and lighted only by a few win-dows way up in the dome. In this are the tombs of the restof the Medici family. The walls are one solid mass of themost elegant mosaic in costly marbles you can imagine, evenprecious stones are used in the ornamentation. 48 ITALY But of all things the Duomo or great cathedral pleases memost. The exterior, which is 500 ft. long, is covered with blocksof black and white marbles arranged in patterns, and in the in-terior, which is quite plain, the light is always like subduedmoonlight, and the echoes of the organ tones are wonderful.We ascended to the dome, and from the balcony, which is builtjust at the foot of the dome, looking down, the men and womenbelow look like flies crawling on the pavement, and the feetof figures in the fresco of the dome are longer than a manscane, while from below they look perfectly minute. The
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PONTE VECCHIO. FLORENCEBuilt in 1345 Campanile or bell tower is built separate from the church andis square, built of marbles of all colors and blocks of all sizesarranged in the most elaborate patterns. The Baptistery inwhich all the children are baptized has the celebrated bronzedoors by Ghiberti which Michael Angelo said were worthyto be the gates of Paradise, but I couldnt see it. I am so glad Jimmy wants to take lessons on the organ,do let him take of Mr. Anton, and tell him I want him to takepains with him and be strict with him. We leave to-morrow morning for Venice and shall be inMilan Saturday night. With much love. Yours affly, M. D. R. 4 49 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD Venice, Jan. 12th, 1870. Hotel Victoria.Dear Aunt Mary, Here we are in Venice, and all of us perfectly carried awaywith It, and Father the most of us all. We travelled all dayyesterday through the most beautiful country imaginable,among mountains with their tops covered with snow, and bylittle villages in the hollow

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