. Men and manners of old Florence. a della Scala, over the area now covered bythe station and the adjacent streets, extended gardensand farms. Between Via San Zanobi and the pre-sent Via Guelfa as far as the Wall were farms andgardens ; gardens also between Via del Maglio (nowVia Lamarmora) and Via Gino Capponi (then Via ), and in that large square bounded by BorgoPinti, Via de Pilastri and Borgo la Croce, and theWalls from Porta alia Croce to the old Porta Pinti,where the closed Protestant cemetery now stands. InPiazza del Granduca (Piazza della Signoria) betweenCalimaruzza and Va
. Men and manners of old Florence. a della Scala, over the area now covered bythe station and the adjacent streets, extended gardensand farms. Between Via San Zanobi and the pre-sent Via Guelfa as far as the Wall were farms andgardens ; gardens also between Via del Maglio (nowVia Lamarmora) and Via Gino Capponi (then Via ), and in that large square bounded by BorgoPinti, Via de Pilastri and Borgo la Croce, and theWalls from Porta alia Croce to the old Porta Pinti,where the closed Protestant cemetery now stands. InPiazza del Granduca (Piazza della Signoria) betweenCalimaruzza and Vacchereccia the Tetto de Pisani(Pisans roof) covered the building occupied by thePost Office, where entered and whence issued to thesound of a cornet the public coaches, with postilionsarrayed in varied hues riding the horses, lively andvivacious at their departure, covered with dust andsweat on their longed-for arrival, with a crowd ofcurious people, loafers and boys surrounding andtormenting them. Through the gratings of the Post. O 1 THE TWILIGHT OF THE PAST 269 Office were distributed the letters and papers, and onpost-days (for at that blest period even the post hadsome rest), all those who expected anything crowdedunder the Tetto de Pisani, and asked for letters withthe same anxiety with which they ask for them to-dayand were met by the same exasperating , except in the principal streets or onsome great Church holiday or civic anniversary, fewpeople were to be seen. There were no publicvehicles; until 1824, S. Fiacre had no devotees amongthe Florentines. In that year there appeared five orsix, which were stationed in the Piazza del Duomonear the Stone of Dante. In Via Larga (now ViaCavour) opposite the Palazzo Riccardi the grass grewbetween the stones. The shops were modest enough,and built in an antique fashion, like the oldest ones onthe Ponte Vecchio and those which have disappearedin recent years from the vicinity of the Badia. Theyhad usually a
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