Byways in southern Tuscany . rdinary occasions a pair of young officers may per-haps be descried sipping wine in the room on the left,while on the right a customer of humbler rank bends abovea dish of macaroni, and apart, in the large sala, still an-other couple chats while awaiting the preparation of aspecial dish. But beyond the rooms mentioned there isstill another smaller and choicer. Here an oval tablestands and a sideboard holds the best glass and this exclusive apartment were we served, and contentshould be those who partake of the cooking of SignoraClementina, and enjoy the ca
Byways in southern Tuscany . rdinary occasions a pair of young officers may per-haps be descried sipping wine in the room on the left,while on the right a customer of humbler rank bends abovea dish of macaroni, and apart, in the large sala, still an-other couple chats while awaiting the preparation of aspecial dish. But beyond the rooms mentioned there isstill another smaller and choicer. Here an oval tablestands and a sideboard holds the best glass and this exclusive apartment were we served, and contentshould be those who partake of the cooking of SignoraClementina, and enjoy the caressing ministrations of herlittle daughter Lorenzina, a soft, attaching creature withthe sweetest of warbling voices. Arriving late and un-expected in the midst of the Pieroni family, I am tempted,as an example of its resourcefulness, to give the menu ofthe dinner served to us an hour later. Beginning withanchovies on toast, it proceeded through clear soup, risotto,roasted kid and pigeons, artichokes and potatoes, fruit 272. Pitigliano. Porta Sovana. BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY and green almonds, to brandied cherries and coffee, alladmirably prepared. Whatever changes Pitigliano has undergone in the lastthree centuries, its streets have not lost their look ofantiquity nor have all reminders of earlier times disap-peared from the buildings. The loiterer in its networkof byways, for example, comes occasionally upon an amus-ing inscription like the following, in the Vicolo an arched entrance is a coat of arms in high reliefand the name MEO. Beneath one reads:— Am A Dio E NoN Falire Vive Allegro Ellasa Dire with the date. May eighth 1500. Now and again one pauses before a fifteenth centurydoorway whose frame shows charming Renaissancemouldings. As for the interiors of the houses, I never meta professional guide in Pitigliano, but if the traveler showsthe sympathy and appreciation he feels for their city,he is made welcome by the owners to enter those housesthat conta
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