. Italy. rom the State palace to theState prison, and across it has been led many a prisonerwho, with a despairing sigh, took from its windows alast glimpse of the sunny world of freedom, for beforehim lay either a cruel death or imprisonment for lifein the gloomy dungeons where no ray of sunshine everfell. CHAPTER VI IN TUSCANY THE province of Tuscany lies between the NorthernApennines and the Mediterranean, and is a delightfulland of little olive-crowned hills, of quaint cities, grey-walled and sun-browned, lying in the green lap ofmeadows and vineyards, while far away snowy mountaintops clo
. Italy. rom the State palace to theState prison, and across it has been led many a prisonerwho, with a despairing sigh, took from its windows alast glimpse of the sunny world of freedom, for beforehim lay either a cruel death or imprisonment for lifein the gloomy dungeons where no ray of sunshine everfell. CHAPTER VI IN TUSCANY THE province of Tuscany lies between the NorthernApennines and the Mediterranean, and is a delightfulland of little olive-crowned hills, of quaint cities, grey-walled and sun-browned, lying in the green lap ofmeadows and vineyards, while far away snowy mountaintops close in the lovely scene. Within her borders liesome of the most famous cities of Italy, and her tongueis that adopted as correct Italian. There is a bewildering confusion of tongues in province has not only its own mode of speech,but many local dialects as well. These often differ sowidely from each other that an uneducated man, speak-ing only his own local Italian, is often at sea when quite 24. z •:SUJ J O Z•:I In Tuscany a short di from home and ) nan people. As one writer remarks, A mountain ahedge, a running brook is sufficient to mark off a newlanguage. Some time ago an Italian writer bu£ja volume contammg one story of Boccaccio translatedSee local speech, and that would be quite beyond L ^of a foreigner to grasp, even if he were an excellentItahan scholar in the usual sense of the word This pleasant land is tilled by the dark-eyed hand-some Tuscan peasantry, whose little villages with simplehouses of stone dot the landscape i/all direc TonThe,r ploughs and carts are drawn by the splendid white °XelUSC toorofh e Sr°Un s too « or too rough for wheels to run, the oxen are harnessed to **»<&<, a kind of rude sleigh. It is formed of asmall platform attached to a bent shaft, and The oxenare fastened on either side of the shaft, tn? lattunnmg up between the two animals. When the sle ghs intended to carry passengers, a large basket is strapS • fi : /he
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