In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . a Mariaa Vincigliata, and by his beauty and gracious pres-ence won her heart. Twice the life of GiovanniUsimbardi was saved in a battle by an unknownknight with a small knot of blue ribbon tied to hisbreastplate. The second time, the stranger wasfelled to the ground, and on his helmet being re-moved, Usimbardi recognized Uberto del Man-zecca, the son of his hated neighbor. The long-standing feud was made up, and the wedding-daywas fixed. As Selvaggia stood at her casement, in bridalarray, watching the lithe figure on the good bl
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . a Mariaa Vincigliata, and by his beauty and gracious pres-ence won her heart. Twice the life of GiovanniUsimbardi was saved in a battle by an unknownknight with a small knot of blue ribbon tied to hisbreastplate. The second time, the stranger wasfelled to the ground, and on his helmet being re-moved, Usimbardi recognized Uberto del Man-zecca, the son of his hated neighbor. The long-standing feud was made up, and the wedding-daywas fixed. As Selvaggia stood at her casement, in bridalarray, watching the lithe figure on the good blackhorse, which knew the road so well down from Casteldi Poggio to Vincigliata, she saw three men dashout of the wood. One seized the horses bridle, the Feudal Castles and Fiesole 207 other pulled his rider out of the saddle, and beforethe young knight could draw his sword, the thirdplunged a dagger into his heart. The murdererwas Simone, Ubertos eldest brother. The bridal bells tolled a death-knell, and Sel-vaggia sat with her lovers head in her lap until they. Castel di Poggio. took the body away for burial. She went ravingmad, and died sitting at her window looking atCastel di Poggio. And the peasants say that herghost haunted the ruins of the old castle—her longfair hair floating behind her, and her white satindress stained with blood. From Castel di Poggio a smooth road runs alongthe hill-crest, south and west, the valley of the Mu-gello and village of Ontignano on the right. Theroad curves ever more to the south and comes finallythrough Borg Unto into Fiesole from behind, thatis, from the side away from Florence. To the leftof this road from Castel di Poggio to Fiesole is 2o8 Outside the Walls always the mass of Monte Cecerl, with its west andsouth faces sloping and built on, but abrupt and pre-cipitous and all hewn into and cut away on its east-ern face. Indeed, the abruptness of this face islargely due to the extraordinary cutting and quarry-ing that has gone on here
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