. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. BASSANO. THE RIVER BRENTA WITH THE WOODEN BASSAXO. PIAZZA VITTORIO EMANUELE BASSANO 147 on the bank below, at tlie foaming rapids, the stripsof gleaming sand, and the mill-wheels turning lazily;then I caught the scenes completing note, — twogrim, dark, medieval towers soaring against the sky,upon the top of the rising ground to the northeast,casting over the landscape the spell of the dread pastof battle-axe and dungeon. For they rose from theold fortress of Ezzelino, that has echoed with suchcountless cries of suffering and sorrow.

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. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. BASSANO. THE RIVER BRENTA WITH THE WOODEN BASSAXO. PIAZZA VITTORIO EMANUELE BASSANO 147 on the bank below, at tlie foaming rapids, the stripsof gleaming sand, and the mill-wheels turning lazily;then I caught the scenes completing note, — twogrim, dark, medieval towers soaring against the sky,upon the top of the rising ground to the northeast,casting over the landscape the spell of the dread pastof battle-axe and dungeon. For they rose from theold fortress of Ezzelino, that has echoed with suchcountless cries of suffering and sorrow. I decided to make my way to the castle, and on re-turning to the little piazza at the bridges end cameimmediately upon another interesting relic, — a tall,aged, stuccoed house standing upon the elevated north-ern side of the area, part-way up the hill; clearly amedieval structure, that once was covered with richfrescoes. From this location came the surname ofBassanos family of painters, — for it was the resid-ence of the Da Ponte. There they all lived, fromgeneration to generation, four hund

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