Days near Rome . exploring. The road to Tivoli is one of the many benefits whichSubiaco owes to its having been so long the residence ofPius VI. It follows, first the Via Sublacensis, constructed * Thii was at Gubbio. A wolf who had long ravaged the surrounding country wasrebuked by S. Francis, who promised it a peaceful existence and daily food, if it wouldamend its ways. The wolf agreed to the compact, and placed his right paw in thehand of S. Francis in token of confidence and good faith. Brother Wolf, as called him, lived afterwards tamely for two years at Gubbio, in good fellow-
Days near Rome . exploring. The road to Tivoli is one of the many benefits whichSubiaco owes to its having been so long the residence ofPius VI. It follows, first the Via Sublacensis, constructed * Thii was at Gubbio. A wolf who had long ravaged the surrounding country wasrebuked by S. Francis, who promised it a peaceful existence and daily food, if it wouldamend its ways. The wolf agreed to the compact, and placed his right paw in thehand of S. Francis in token of confidence and good faith. Brother Wolf, as called him, lived afterwards tamely for two years at Gubbio, in good fellow-ship with all, and finally died, much regretted, of old age.—From the Fioretti di ^.Francesco. A THE VALLE SANTA. 319 by Nero, and then the Via Valeria, which was the work ofthe censor Valerius Maximus, in the year of Rome 447. Inspring, when it is chiefly visited by foreigners, the countryhere strikes one as bare, and the chief interest is derivedentirely from the villages which crest the hills on either Subiaco. But in summer, when the chestnut woods are in full leaf,and the luxuriant vines leap from tree to tree along the val-leys, the scenery is unspeakably lovely. Les montagnes rapprochees forment une suite de vallees etroites etsingulierement accidentees, ou, a chaque detour du chemin, le charmesaisissant de rimprevu vous decouvre une source toujours nouvelled^motions. Sous la voute epaisse de ces bois, au milieu des gorgesprofondes de ces montagnes, on croit errerdans les forets primitives queles anciennes traditions nous representent pleines de tenebres, de mys-tere et dhorreur, et qui couvraient le pays, quand les colons sicules etpelasges vinrent sy etablir long-temps avant la periode romaine. La silence de ces retraites inhabitees nest trouble que par le mur- 320 DA YS NEAR ROME. mure de niisseaux nombreux qui, roulant sur des pentes rapides, yforment des cascades et se precipitent ensuite dans IAnio, dont leschutes retentissantes dominent 5a et la tous les
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