In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . l finally the host of flat-topped, square towers of Luccacame into sight. the least. For, wherever you go, there is somethingmore to add to the sweet dream. And how fit it is that this old-world place shouldbe completely inclosed by low, bastioned walls, withdry moat without, and broad, grassy, tree-grownbank within. We walked slowly around the entirecity on this fascinating promenade, looking nowdown into the medley of crowded houses, nowbroadly across the red-tiled roofs to the scatteredscore of lifting towers, and now away fr
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . l finally the host of flat-topped, square towers of Luccacame into sight. the least. For, wherever you go, there is somethingmore to add to the sweet dream. And how fit it is that this old-world place shouldbe completely inclosed by low, bastioned walls, withdry moat without, and broad, grassy, tree-grownbank within. We walked slowly around the entirecity on this fascinating promenade, looking nowdown into the medley of crowded houses, nowbroadly across the red-tiled roofs to the scatteredscore of lifting towers, and now away from the city Lucca 333 out over the flat valley and plain to the distant high,blue mountains. In the moat below a troop ofblack-gowned seminarists were at simple play; alongthe white roads, radiating away into invisibility, cartsand wagons slowly moved; in the flat fields a fewcattle grazed, and on the moats outer edge a uni-formed oflicer made his canter of exercise. We were loth to surrender our picture of Luccawhole for the closer examination of even the most. How fit it is that this old-world place should be completelyinclosed by low bastioned walls., with dry moat without, andbroad, grassy, tree-grown bank within. beautiful bits of the mosaic. But when in our drift-ing we finally found ourselves in the quiet littlePiazza San Martino, under the high, many-columnedcampanile of the cathedral, we went in to see thatmost beautiful single thing in Lucca, Jacopo dellaQuercias gravestone of Ilaria. But first we had 334 Florentine Excursions our fill of tiie beauties and curiosities of the cathedralfacade. It is a wonderful Romanesque churchfront, with its three-arched loggia, its triple seriesof open galleries, its many antique short columns, itsstriking sculptures, and naiVe ornamentation. The interior, nearly three hundred feet long anda hundred feet high, is impressive and beautiful, andcontains a number of choice things. Most mem-orable is the llaria tomb. This marble effigy on
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