Identifier: plaintownsofital01will (find matches)
Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ned or sat, while pacing the green be-tween the palatial buildings, now gone. At Can La Grandes court, no doubt,Due reverence did his steps attend;The ushers on his path would bendAt ingoing as at going out.^ The buildings for the lodging of the servants, men-at-arms, ^nd horses, doubtless encircled the outercourtyard; but they have all disappeared. I crossed itagain, and departed by another gate on the north side,under an aucient fresco of the Madonna. Thence, by carriage to Caldiero and up the IllasiValley, I journeyed to the village and castle of thatname, enjoying a view of the latter upon its hilltopfor an hour before my arrival. The Scaligers obtainedit from Pope Nicholas V, and upon their destruc-tion it passed to the Conti Pompei of Verona, whoselast representative died in 1885, leaving his city pal-ace to the Signoria for the museum. Upon one occa-sion, when tearing down an old wall of the castle,he found the chained skeleton of an ancestress, the * Rossetti, Dante at Verona.
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VERONA LA MARMORINA 415 Countess Ginevra, who had been punished for infidel-ity by her husband long ago, in a manner similar tothe White Lady of Colalto. At the piazza of IllasiI saw a fine, classic Municipio, and near it the hand-some villa and gardens of the Marchese Carlotti.The castle, though nearly as picturesque from below,in its great tower, massive stone body and ruinouswalls, is not as interesting as Soave, — being neitheras old, nor kept in the medieval state. It consists ofa projecting keep, on the north side, and an adjacentsquare building of three to four stories, both battle-mented, and surrounded by the broken remains of theenceinture. All around it on the hillsides lies the beautifulPompei estate, dense with olive groves and vineyards,white-spotted with excellent tenants dwellings; andthe prospect over them of the rich valley with itsmany villages is enchanting. The ascent from thetown is a full two miles; and let no one who makes itomit first to obtain in the piazza

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