History of art . TALY did not know the centuries ofsilence into which the annihilation of theLatin world plunged Gaul. Visited, asGaul was, and more frequently thanGaul, by invasion, Italy retained, never-theless, the memory of a well-orderedworld of imposing aspect, one which resembled her owndesire. The world of the ancient Mediterranean was toenter the modern world along the slope of her naturalgenius. Rome installed in the basilicas its rebaptizedgods. The old races called upon the old civilizations tofurnish them the means of awaiting the return of Barbarians overthrew the temple
History of art . TALY did not know the centuries ofsilence into which the annihilation of theLatin world plunged Gaul. Visited, asGaul was, and more frequently thanGaul, by invasion, Italy retained, never-theless, the memory of a well-orderedworld of imposing aspect, one which resembled her owndesire. The world of the ancient Mediterranean was toenter the modern world along the slope of her naturalgenius. Rome installed in the basilicas its rebaptizedgods. The old races called upon the old civilizations tofurnish them the means of awaiting the return of Barbarians overthrew the temples, their Italian-ized sons set them up again. And nothing is the ruin of yesterday still another basilica comesforth. The role of the conqueror is not to teach new 380 MEDIiEVAL ART processes, but to infuse new energy. He offers hisvirgin senses to the revelation of the glorious was Greece rendered fecund by the generalizations are born from the melting of the. Lucca (xi Century). The cathedral. human material from the north in the Greco-Latincrucible. We know it well. We must tell it. The greatestmen have confessed it to us. Montaigne will ask Italyto approve his wisdom, Shakespeare invokes her namedaily to justify his passion. Goethe lives through her, THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 381 and Stendhal, and Nietzsche. Byron dies through the days of Rembrandts affluence, Giorgione reignsover his studio, and when he becomes poor there isalways something of the Italian flame at the center ofthe ray of light which follows his descent into theshadows of the mind. It is Italy that organizes the
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