. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. VICEXZA. PALAZZO D. A RAGIONE. (PALLADIO.) VICENZA THE PALATIAL 99 filling jars, dilapidated rococo church fagades, narrowways blocked by clumsy wagons harnessed to sleepyoxen, and everywhere children, rolling in the dirt,playing, crying, running beside the track. Whenpassed at a little distance they were more pleasingto the eye, — the solidly massed white walls seenthrough intervening verdure, with their uniform red-tiled roofs, little surrounding gardens, and picturesquetowers soaring against the blue. All these small un-walled towns are as
. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. VICEXZA. PALAZZO D. A RAGIONE. (PALLADIO.) VICENZA THE PALATIAL 99 filling jars, dilapidated rococo church fagades, narrowways blocked by clumsy wagons harnessed to sleepyoxen, and everywhere children, rolling in the dirt,playing, crying, running beside the track. Whenpassed at a little distance they were more pleasingto the eye, — the solidly massed white walls seenthrough intervening verdure, with their uniform red-tiled roofs, little surrounding gardens, and picturesquetowers soaring against the blue. All these small un-walled towns are as much a development of the threelast centuries as are the solitary farmhouses that nowdot the landscape, — an evolution of more peacefuldays. Often we passed close to one of the latter, butits wall-inclosed front yard littered with straw andmanure-piles, its filthy stables and pig-pens under thesame roof (sometimes under the very floor) of theliving-rooms, its whole appearance and air of decayand neglect, showed little advancement over the ignor-ance of the Middl
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