Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . tudy the escutcheons carven andpainted on the walls. I could sw ear that thel3ear on the arms of Pistoja was the same thatthey saw and noted with the amusement whicha bear in a checkered tabard must inspire inignorant minds; though I am now able toinform the reader that it was put therebecause Pistoja was anciently infested withbears, and this was the last bear left whenthey were exterminated. W c need not otherwise go deeply into theliistory of Pistoja. We know already howone of her family feuds introduced the fac-tions of th
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . tudy the escutcheons carven andpainted on the walls. I could sw ear that thel3ear on the arms of Pistoja was the same thatthey saw and noted with the amusement whicha bear in a checkered tabard must inspire inignorant minds; though I am now able toinform the reader that it was put therebecause Pistoja was anciently infested withbears, and this was the last bear left whenthey were exterminated. W c need not otherwise go deeply into theliistory of Pistoja. We know already howone of her family feuds introduced the fac-tions of the Bianchi and Neri in Florence,and finallv caused the exile of Dante; andwe may inoffensively remember that Catilinemet his defeat and death on her hills a. u. CITIES. in whose private warfare she suffered almostas much as from her foreign enemies. Be-tween them the Cancellieri and the Pancia-tichi burned a thousand houses within herwalls, not counting those without, and thelatter had plotted to deliver over their countryto the Visconti of Milan, when the Floren-. A COUNTRY VILLA. 691. She was ruled more or less tumultuously tines intervened and took final possession of by princes, popes, and people till the time of Pistoja. Iier great siege by the Lucchese and Floren- We had, therefore, not even to say thattines and her own Guelph exiles in 1305. Fam- we were of the Cancelheri party in order toine began to madden the besieged, and men enter Pistoja, but drove up to the Hotel diand women stole out of the city through the Londra without challenge, and had dinnerenemys camp and scoured the country for there, after which we repaired to the Piazzafood. When the Florentines found this out, del Duomo; and while the artist got out athey lay in wait for them, and such as they plate and began to etch in the rain, the authorcaught they mutilated, cutting off their noses, bestirred himself to find the sacristan and getor arms, or legs, and then exposing them to into the cathedral. It was
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