In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . e distance lift themselves in heavy lines above thenearby villa-dotted hills. Straight down three hun-dred feet below, curiously foreshortened men andcabs and horses trot about in the busy piazza, likelittle black whirligig beetles on the smooth surfaceof a pool. The whirling of these black spots IsFlorence life of to-day playing across the scene ofSavonarolas burning. As we issue again from MIchelozzos beautifullittle colonnaded court we pause on the platformwhere Michelangelos David stood, and overlook fora moment the populous
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . e distance lift themselves in heavy lines above thenearby villa-dotted hills. Straight down three hun-dred feet below, curiously foreshortened men andcabs and horses trot about in the busy piazza, likelittle black whirligig beetles on the smooth surfaceof a pool. The whirling of these black spots IsFlorence life of to-day playing across the scene ofSavonarolas burning. As we issue again from MIchelozzos beautifullittle colonnaded court we pause on the platformwhere Michelangelos David stood, and overlook fora moment the populous piazza. It is a genre sceneunpaintable and indescribable In Its lack of emphaticpoints or dominant figures, but unique in Its impres-sionistic whole, its aroma. Out of it, to the right, riseAmmanatis great fountain, with its giant Neptune 144 Castles and Palaces and guarding tritons, and Giovanni da Bolognasstatue of Cosimo I; while, to the left, lifts the nobleLoggia del Lanzl with Its strenuous statues, CellinisPerseus, Donatellos Judith, and Giovanni da Bo-. The noble Loggia dei Lanzi with its strenuous statues. lognas Rape of the Sabines and Hercules Slayingthe Centaur Nessus,—statues befitting the scenes ofblood and terror that the Loggia looked upon in thetroublous centuries long past. As we stand contemplative and hesitating, suddenly Palazzo Vecchio and II Bargello 145 the noon gun booms, and promptly on the roar thepiazza springs into a violent activity. There comes awhirling flight of pigeons up from their feeding-grounds in front of the cafes and a simultaneous greatcracking of whips and grinding of wheels as all theSignoria omnibuses lurch forward and coveys ofquick cabs flit off into the side streets. It may beour signal as well. The Bargello Is the ancient palace and strongholdof the podestas and chiefs of police of Florence. InIts present peaceful capacity of national museum Itloses much of Its flavor for those who would liketo enjoy In It those thrills that t
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