. American lands and letters. the heavy,mat-like curtain at the door of St. Peters floppedbehind him, and the mild airs of the great templebathed him in their placid serenities. Later the currents of his blood were pleasantlystirred by the infectious jollities of the Carnival;and still further stirred when, in the spring (1858),he encounters the romance-laden winds whichblow over the Florentine valley; and from hiseyrie on the height of Bellosguardo, he looksathwart the Arno, and the Brunelleschi dome tothe hills by Fiesole ; and out of his crumblingsquare tower of Montauto—a little way southw
. American lands and letters. the heavy,mat-like curtain at the door of St. Peters floppedbehind him, and the mild airs of the great templebathed him in their placid serenities. Later the currents of his blood were pleasantlystirred by the infectious jollities of the Carnival;and still further stirred when, in the spring (1858),he encounters the romance-laden winds whichblow over the Florentine valley; and from hiseyrie on the height of Bellosguardo, he looksathwart the Arno, and the Brunelleschi dome tothe hills by Fiesole ; and out of his crumblingsquare tower of Montauto—a little way southwardfrom the Porto Romano — filches the romantic ma-terial for his new story of Donatello. As the sum-mer season waned, he went to Rome again, wherethe Campagna fever smote one of the dearest ofhis flock — a new and bitter experience unfolding 256 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. for him, as she (the eldest of his daughters) hov-ers between life and death. There were friendsindeed to lend their sympathies ; for he met the. W. W. Story. Storys at Rome, and had hobnobbed over andagain with that full-brained poet, architect, sculp-tor, talker — who had graced so many arts twashard to tell in which he was master. GeneralPierce, too, taking his post-presidential range of HAWTHORNE IN ROME. 257
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