. Earthwork out of Tuscany. EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY: along the cross-beam of the tan; and inthe place of honour a shallow apse piercedwith red lancets and aglow like an a chapel of them but is worth studyand a stiff neck. After the Rule camethe Fioretti ; after Francis and Bonaventurecame Celano and Jacopone da Todi ; afterArnolfo del Lapo and his attention to busi-ness came the hours of ease when he plannedthe airy plume on which the church leapsskyward; and came also Giotto to weavethe crown of Santa Croce. I take the Tuscan nature to be so con-stituted that it will play with any
. Earthwork out of Tuscany. EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY: along the cross-beam of the tan; and inthe place of honour a shallow apse piercedwith red lancets and aglow like an a chapel of them but is worth studyand a stiff neck. After the Rule camethe Fioretti ; after Francis and Bonaventurecame Celano and Jacopone da Todi ; afterArnolfo del Lapo and his attention to busi-ness came the hours of ease when he plannedthe airy plume on which the church leapsskyward; and came also Giotto to weavethe crown of Santa Croce. I take the Tuscan nature to be so con-stituted that it will play with any givensubject of speculation in much the sameway. With one or two mighty exceptionsto be sure—Dante, of course, Buonarroti,of course, and, for all his secularities,Boccace—it is not imagination you find inTuscany. Rather, it is a sweet and deli-cate, a wholesome, a home-grown fancy,wantoning with thought which may beunpleasant, unhealthy, grave, frivolous—what you will ; yet playing in such a way,and with such intuiti
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