In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . The angling stair and pillared rail, the stemmi on the wallsand the open balcony of the court of Poppi Castle. wall to the right of the entrance and over a sug-gestively small, dark, heavily-barred window: Non per veder questa tomba ripiena,Ma per pieta di povere persone,Qui fece fare una nuova prigioneII cavalier Francesco da Romena. * * Not with the wish to see the dungeon filled,But out of pity for its wretched ones,The cavalier Francesco da RomenaErected a new prison on this site. In the Casentino 305 This good deed was done
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . The angling stair and pillared rail, the stemmi on the wallsand the open balcony of the court of Poppi Castle. wall to the right of the entrance and over a sug-gestively small, dark, heavily-barred window: Non per veder questa tomba ripiena,Ma per pieta di povere persone,Qui fece fare una nuova prigioneII cavalier Francesco da Romena. * * Not with the wish to see the dungeon filled,But out of pity for its wretched ones,The cavalier Francesco da RomenaErected a new prison on this site. In the Casentino 305 This good deed was done in 1649, ^^^ the newprison was doubtless provided with all moderncomforts! From Poppi hill one looks through the shimmer-ing air straight down the Arno to Bibbiena, perchedalso on the tip-top of an isolated hill, rising likea great sugar loaf from the rivers bed. The daybefore the vintage was to begin all Casentino cameto Bibbiena to buy and sell and visit together. Shoes. Past contadinos houses all hung over with drying gold andorange corn. and pigs, woolens and oxen, umbrellas and bleatingsheep, new tools for the farmyard, new casks forthe wine-shed, colored kerchiefs for feast-days; allthings useful and ornamental to the Casentinese werebargained for in Bibbiena this day. And betweenbargainings, the red wine washed down the friedcakes and macaroni. We went to the fair in the afternoon, by a deviousnarrow lane, along the hill-side among vineyards, andpast contadinos houses all hung over with drying 3o6 Florentine Excursions gold and orange corn and purple-brown millet way dropped gradually down from Poppi hill tothe river level, and here we gained the path underthe poplars along the waters edge. The Arno inthe Casentino is simply a quiet, shining little countrystream, with riffles at the shallow places and stillpools in holes hollowed under the banks like anybrook at home. As we neared the bridge at the foot of Bibbienahill we saw it and the
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