Italy : handbook for travellers . 9 ), the friend of Augustusand patron of Virtjil and Horace; the Benedictine monk Outdo Aretino(ltKX)-1050), the inventor of our present system of musical notation;Francesco Petrarra, the greatest lyric poet of Italy, born of Florentineparents in 1304 (d. 1374); Fietro Aretino, the satirist (1492-1557); severalniuinbers of the noble family of the Accolti., jurists and historians, in the to Perugia. AREZZO. Route. 39 15-t7th cent.; A. Cesalpini, the botanist and physician (1519-1603); , the physician and humourist (d. 1098). — Arezzo has also prod
Italy : handbook for travellers . 9 ), the friend of Augustusand patron of Virtjil and Horace; the Benedictine monk Outdo Aretino(ltKX)-1050), the inventor of our present system of musical notation;Francesco Petrarra, the greatest lyric poet of Italy, born of Florentineparents in 1304 (d. 1374); Fietro Aretino, the satirist (1492-1557); severalniuinbers of the noble family of the Accolti., jurists and historians, in the to Perugia. AREZZO. Route. 39 15-t7th cent.; A. Cesalpini, the botanist and physician (1519-1603); , the physician and humourist (d. 1098). — Arezzo has also producedseveral artists: Marguritone (about 1236), a painter and sculptor of nogreat importance; Spinello Aretino {IZi^-il^iQ) , an able pupil of Giotto,whose style he steadily followed and rendered popular (his best worksare in 8. Miniato near Florence, in the Campo Santo at Pisa, and in thePalazzo Comunale in Siena); at a later period Giorgio Vasari (1512-74),the painter, architect, and biograplier of artists. The town, however,. never possessed a scliool of its own. Its requirements in the provinceof art, which were at their height in the 13-14th cent., were fulfilled byFlorentine and Sienese masters, and Giotto, Lippo Blemmi, Lorenzetti,and others were employed here. Leaving the station, we follow the new Via Guido Monaco lead-ing in 5 niin. to the Via Cayour. Here, in the small Piazza 40 Route 6. AREZZO. From Florence S. Francesco, is a Monument to Count Fossombroni (b. at Arezzo1754, d. 1844; PI. l;p. 43J. S. Francesco (PI. 2) contains fine frescoes of the 15th the CuoiR: -Frescoes by Piero delta Francesca^ the master of LucaSignorelli (best light in the evening). They narrate the legend of theHoly Cross, according to which a seed of the tree of knowledge, plantedupon Adams grave, grew up to be a tree. Solomon caused the tree to befelled and abridge to be constructed of the wood, of which the Queen ofShcba afterwards discovered the origin. At a later period it was u
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