In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . s, and spots wheremen of history and saintsof holy myth have stood,he can put in many a dayof good seeing with Ca-rocci for guide. Andincidentally, and un-avoidably, will he seesome of that fascinatingbeauty of the fields andgardens, hill-slopes andscenes from hilltops, thatI have tried many timesin this book to hint and its sur-roundings of to-day havea special charm of theirown quite apart fromthat given them by theirassociation with vanished poets and artists, princesand priests. I had looked often and longingly t
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . s, and spots wheremen of history and saintsof holy myth have stood,he can put in many a dayof good seeing with Ca-rocci for guide. Andincidentally, and un-avoidably, will he seesome of that fascinatingbeauty of the fields andgardens, hill-slopes andscenes from hilltops, thatI have tried many timesin this book to hint and its sur-roundings of to-day havea special charm of theirown quite apart fromthat given them by theirassociation with vanished poets and artists, princesand priests. I had looked often and longingly to the northand up toward the two stone, fortress-like buildingsthat one sees on their hill perches so distinctly fromthe Fiesole and Settignano trams. And their fine-sounding names, Vincigliata and Castel di Poggio,kept echoing in my ears like a reminiscence of thingsalready known. Were they castles on the Rhineor Moselle that I had sailed by regretfully summersago, or were they the Wartburg or some other morebroken and deserted stronghold that I had seen while. San Niccolo, one of the few-noble gate towers of an-cient days. 202 Outside the Walls tramping the Thuringian hills? Anyway, they werestrongly reminiscent of earlier joys, and promisednew thrills like old ones, which is always a promiseof much seduction. From the piazza in front of the little church ofSettignano a pair of iron gates open to the northon a broad path that drops down into the garden-like narrow valleyof a very smallstream. Crossingthis and skirting thelittle cemetery youbegin to push upthe hill toward Vin-cigliata, through astraggling planta-tion of young cy-presses. What sadharm was workedto all the hills aboutFlorence by thereckless cutting ofthe trees in pasttimes! Modern for-estry all over Eu-
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