. The Florence of Landor. to-day. Thefine upper loggia, the design of Orcagna, is hisbest monument, and the tragic cell for the con-demned — rarely vacant in his day — still gives ashiver to the sensitive observer. The Arms ofthe Duke of Athens and those of more than twohundred Podestas, are a rich and eiFective featureof the court. The upper salons which were for-merly the apartments of the Podesta containmany notable objects : Donatellos David,standing with his foot on the head of Goliath;the wonderful Dancing Mercury of Giovannida Bologna, with its airy, floating lightness; agruesome reliqu
. The Florence of Landor. to-day. Thefine upper loggia, the design of Orcagna, is hisbest monument, and the tragic cell for the con-demned — rarely vacant in his day — still gives ashiver to the sensitive observer. The Arms ofthe Duke of Athens and those of more than twohundred Podestas, are a rich and eiFective featureof the court. The upper salons which were for-merly the apartments of the Podesta containmany notable objects : Donatellos David,standing with his foot on the head of Goliath;the wonderful Dancing Mercury of Giovannida Bologna, with its airy, floating lightness; agruesome reliquary; and countless old bronzes,frescoes, and curios. To what extent Santa Croce impressed thepoet and the sculptor, there is no record. seems always to have been fascinatedby Santa Maria Novella, with its famous Cim-abue, and the strange old green cloister. SantaCroce is the Westminster Abbey of Florence; andthe tombs of Michael Angelo, of Machiavelli,of Alfieri, the frescoes of Giotto in the Capella 194. MERCURY. From the Bronze of Giovanni da Bologna. IDYLLIC HOURS Peruzzi — the finest series that he ever produced— allure one to linger away many a morninguntil the old sacristan relentlessly closes its Storys spend long, quiet evenings with theBrownings at Casa Guidi, and Mrs. Story andMrs. Browning read and discuss Jane Eyretogether. Plainly Jane Eyreis by a woman,said Mrs. Browning. At the festival of CorpusDomini the Storys and the Brownings togetherwatch the motley procession that fills the streetsbetween the Palazzo Vecchio and the piazza ofSanta Maria Novella, where the compagnie ofthe churches, costumed in white, with curls ontheir heads and with black draperies, march withtheir banners; the nobility, richly clad withscarlet capes, follow, and the Host is borne,under a sumptuous canopy, into the church, thesoldiers all kneeling in the piazza as it the nameless fascination of foreign customscharmed the eye and furnished that scen
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