. A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies. eval garden, intersected by quaintwalks between tall box hedges and clipped yews. There he passed some years, steadily working ina studio attached to the house, and for a time, also,he lived at Campden House and Lancaster Lodgein London, two houses which he made into onedelightful whole. At this latter place Burne-Jones,who often worked with him, painted his famousLove among the Ruins, and there, too, narrowlyescaped sudden death, for, as he was leaving thehouse one day, a tree fell, crashing across the spotwhich he had but that instant qu
. A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies. eval garden, intersected by quaintwalks between tall box hedges and clipped yews. There he passed some years, steadily working ina studio attached to the house, and for a time, also,he lived at Campden House and Lancaster Lodgein London, two houses which he made into onedelightful whole. At this latter place Burne-Jones,who often worked with him, painted his famousLove among the Ruins, and there, too, narrowlyescaped sudden death, for, as he was leaving thehouse one day, a tree fell, crashing across the spotwhich he had but that instant quitted. In 1880,however, the stress of Stanhopes ailment drove himabroad for relief, and he finally took up his abodeon the hills above Florence. Villa Nuti, the ancientand historic house which he purchased there, hadformerly belonged to Prince Strozzi; and still,where they had hung for many generations, red-robed Cardinals and old-world Princes made a splashof colour against its grey stone walls. High upon Bellosguardo its windows looked out on Monte. !• Al li:\( K ON A MOMMKNl S\\(. Al/tiiiliuf hy lioililaiii Sfuntir SliinliopcIII thifiofSissioiio/Mi .//.//...^. KIKI THE VALE OF ARNO 337 Morello and the Vallombrosan hills, faintly purpleagainst an Italian sky. Below lay outstretched thegreat Vale of the Arno, with the domes and spiresof Florence piercing the sunshine, and the music ofthat city of bells eternally in the air. The nearestvilla, slightly higher upon the hill, was that wherethe Brownings had once lived and worked ; and,looking out upon that same view, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning wrote :— I found a house at Florence on the hill,Of Bellosguardo. Tis a tower which keepsA post of double-observation oer That valley of Arno (holding as a handThe outspread city), straight towards FiesoleAnd Mount Morello and the setting sun,The Vallombrosan mountains sunrise fills as full as crystal cupsTurned red to the brim because their wine is sun could di
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