Wayfarers in ItalyD. P. Elder and M. Shepard, 1901 - 304 pages |
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Page 26 - Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Page 53 - The peasant gives his labour, the landlord gives the land and the capital, and the proceeds are divided between them. In bad years the landlord advances corn to his peasants, which they repay, when they can, in wine, oil, beans, etc. Where there is a large family of young children the peasant sometimes accumulates a load of debt that cripEles him for years ; in rare instances the landlord turns im out at six months...
Page 95 - Now shah thou rest forever, rest till death, Tired heart. Thy last illusion perisheth — The dream thou wast eternal. It is gone. Of all thy fond illusions none remain; The hope, the very wish to hope, is flown. Rest there forever. Thou hast throbbed thy fill. — LEOPARDI. Trans. by JA Symonds. Wandering through this idyllic country and ignoring the railways, we are happy in the independence of little open carriages, which can always be found to suit one's desire when the impulse comes to move...
Page 300 - TORCELLO. SHORT sail from Venice sad Torcello lies, Deserted island, low and still and green. Before fair Venice was a bride and queen Torcello's court was held in fairer guise Than Doges knew. To-day death-vapors rise From fields where once her palaces were seen, And in her silent towers that crumbling lean Unterrified the brooding swallow flies.
Page 271 - ... Pale olives stretch towards the blazing street ; You broke a branch, you never spoke at all, But gave it me to fan with in the heat ; You gave it me without a sign or word, And yet, my love, I think you knew I heard. You gave it me without a word or sign : Under the olives first I called you mine. V. At Lucca, for the autumn festival, The streets are tulip-gay ; but you and I Forgot them, seeing over church and wall Guinigi's tower soar i...
Page 1 - Dost know the tombs of Castel d'Asso? The towers of San Gimignano? The outlooks from Montepulciano? The palaces of Pienza? The cloisters of Oliveto Maggiore? Hast ever penetrated the obscure renown of the Fanum Voltumnae, — or followed the fading frescoes of the Grotta del Trinclinio,— or studied the lengthening shadows of the Val di Chiana,— or boated it across to the lonely isles of the Lago Trasimeno?
Page 53 - The mezseriii or mt'tayer system generally prevailing in Tuscany induces a patriarchal feeling between landlord and peasant, which is very pleasant to see, but is not conducive to agricultural progress, or a good thing for the landlord. He pays all the taxes to government, which are enormous ; he provides the house rent free, and keeps it in repair ; he buys the oxen, cows, and horses, bearing half the loss if they die, and of course getting half the profit when they are sold. The peasant gives his...
Page 53 - Where there is a large family of young children the peasant sometimes accumulates a load of debt that cripples him for years ; in rare instances the landlord turns him out at six months' notice, and puts another family on the farm ; but as a rule the peasants remain for generations on the same property, and always talk of themselves as the gente (people) of their landlord. The English farmer does not...
Page 189 - Aad the church that Francis built at Assissi yet remains, "one of the most curious and interesting in the world, being in reality three churches rising one above another, partly built against, partly embedded in a stony steep, the lower one cut out of the solid rock.