In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . rest. We have things and interesting ones there are cer-tainly, but the town as a whole brought us no suchcontinuous, positive satisfaction and quiet joy as littlePrato or larger Lucca. However, to the studentgrounded in Tuscan history or Tuscan art, Pistojamust be a rich hunting-ground. Even the casualvisitor cannot escape realizing that he is in an atmos-phere filled with murmurs of an unusually eventfulpast, and that he sees here surprisingly plainly some-thing of the modulations that bind the art of onecity or
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . rest. We have things and interesting ones there are cer-tainly, but the town as a whole brought us no suchcontinuous, positive satisfaction and quiet joy as littlePrato or larger Lucca. However, to the studentgrounded in Tuscan history or Tuscan art, Pistojamust be a rich hunting-ground. Even the casualvisitor cannot escape realizing that he is in an atmos-phere filled with murmurs of an unusually eventfulpast, and that he sees here surprisingly plainly some-thing of the modulations that bind the art of onecity or one epoch to that of another. To take asimple and very obvious instance: he notes unavoid-ably the appearance here and there on the churchfagades of those rows of short columns that are so 324 Florentine Excursions much more in evidence in Lucca, and so dominatinglycharacteristic of the Pisan cathedral group. Andin remembering that it was here that Catiline wasdefeated and slain, and that here the great Guelph-Ghibelline struggle toolc on its significant Blacks. The striking, column-laden, long fagade of San GiovanniFuorcivitas. against Whites phase, one will have two samplesof the incidents that go to make up the dispropor-tionate importance this little town assumes in thetale of Rome and Italy. Pistoja is a place of many churches, as one realizeseven before reaching it from the abundance of tow-ers and domes that lift above its red gray roofs. Prato and Pistoja 325 And almost all of these churches seem to have some-thing in or on them worth seeing. There is thestriking, column-laden, long fagade of San GiovanniFuorcivitas, with its fascinatingly naive old relief of
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