Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria . th remained white and intact. Sheappeared to be quite sure that Santa Rosa was onlyin a condition of suspended animation and mightcome to life at any moment. So it seems that all Viterbos worthies are heroines,not heroes. Viterbo has had so many titles givento her (mostly given by herself), City of Fair;Women, and * Beautiful Fountains. She is the City of Towers. She crowns her tresses withtowers, &c. It would be, perhaps, rude to style herthe City of False Pretensions. One is tempted to doso as one finds here a street called of Vetulonia,—anda Piazza
Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria . th remained white and intact. Sheappeared to be quite sure that Santa Rosa was onlyin a condition of suspended animation and mightcome to life at any moment. So it seems that all Viterbos worthies are heroines,not heroes. Viterbo has had so many titles givento her (mostly given by herself), City of Fair;Women, and * Beautiful Fountains. She is the City of Towers. She crowns her tresses withtowers, &c. It would be, perhaps, rude to style herthe City of False Pretensions. One is tempted to doso as one finds here a street called of Vetulonia,—anda Piazza there of Voltumna. And it is even to bemuch regretted that another street should be calledafter that reverend Arch-Impostor, Annius. Yet whatever deficiencies, and unfounded preten-sions in the Etruscan line, are to be attributed toViterbo, no one—(and we have not done so certainly)—can refrain from declaring her to be amongst themost beautiful of Mediaeval Cities. UNVVIN BROTHERS LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON V. ,*•<
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