Byways in southern Tuscany . sorrow and resentment butby that time the people were helpless to resist encroach-ment, and the deterioration of the town advanced sorapidly that Siena herself was alarmed. It did not pleaseher to lose outright even one among her subject she valued the proud record of Sovana, at all 250 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY events she tried to stay its depopulation with encourage-ment and financial assistance but it was too late andSovana gradually became the ruin we have already de-scribed. More than once colonization was attempted as ameans of rehabilitation,
Byways in southern Tuscany . sorrow and resentment butby that time the people were helpless to resist encroach-ment, and the deterioration of the town advanced sorapidly that Siena herself was alarmed. It did not pleaseher to lose outright even one among her subject she valued the proud record of Sovana, at all 250 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY events she tried to stay its depopulation with encourage-ment and financial assistance but it was too late andSovana gradually became the ruin we have already de-scribed. More than once colonization was attempted as ameans of rehabilitation, the last time in 1745, when up-ward of fifty families were sent to settle there. The effortfailed; Sovana had then long been cursed with the malariathat had invaded the whole Maremma and the haplesscolonists appear to have succumbed to the unhappy condi-tions they found themselves in. Repetti makes the sig-nificant comment that ninety years later not a singledescendant of one of these famihes was to be discovered 251 iilM .#«k44«>41|»V fc^-T.,jrCTVCf s^SS^
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