. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. wide entrance hall, with a red tiledfloor, brown stucco walls, and a wooden ceiling whichPetrarch had painted with countless little squarescontaining brown circles. Around the upper wallsextended a cinquecento frieze of frescoed panels, threeper side, illustrating the story of Petrarch and Laura,as set forth in his sonnets. One or both of them appearin each scene, amidst charming landscapes throughwhich winds the Sorga River, with the town of Vau-cluse discerned in the distance, where the poet sawand loved his ideal; and under each tableau ar
. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. wide entrance hall, with a red tiledfloor, brown stucco walls, and a wooden ceiling whichPetrarch had painted with countless little squarescontaining brown circles. Around the upper wallsextended a cinquecento frieze of frescoed panels, threeper side, illustrating the story of Petrarch and Laura,as set forth in his sonnets. One or both of them appearin each scene, amidst charming landscapes throughwhich winds the Sorga River, with the town of Vau-cluse discerned in the distance, where the poet sawand loved his ideal; and under each tableau are writ-ten its appropriate verses from the Canzoni di charming idea is well carried out, the work hav-ing been skillfully retouched about twenty years ago. ^ Restorations, or reproductions, of the original trecento windows. Inseveral rooms; however, the framework of Petrarchs day is still preserved;and here and there, especially in his study, linger a number of the littleround trecento panes, distinguished by their yellowish ARQUA. THE HOTi
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