Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . - MHjfcH] THK TOWKl; WriH A GI50VE ON ITS CREST rule (jf an aristocracy nicknamed the Lordsof the Little Ring, from the narrow^ circle inwhich her senators succeeded one had always been called Lucca the Indus-trious ; in lier safe subordination, she nowworked and throve for two hundred and fiftyyears, till the French republicans came andtoppled her oligarchy over at a touch. Ok mediaeval Lucca I have kept freshestthe sense of her Gothic cluirch architecture,with its delicate difference from that of Pisa,which it re
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . - MHjfcH] THK TOWKl; WriH A GI50VE ON ITS CREST rule (jf an aristocracy nicknamed the Lordsof the Little Ring, from the narrow^ circle inwhich her senators succeeded one had always been called Lucca the Indus-trious ; in lier safe subordination, she nowworked and throve for two hundred and fiftyyears, till the French republicans came andtoppled her oligarchy over at a touch. Ok mediaeval Lucca I have kept freshestthe sense of her Gothic cluirch architecture,with its delicate difference from that of Pisa,which it resembles and excels. It is touchedwith tile ]>()inl)ardic and character. I TUSCAN CITIES. 903. the local Scientific and Literary Academyproclaimed the marvel of her age for herlearning and her gifts in improvisation. Thereader will readily identify her from this; orif he cannot, the greater shame to him ; hemight as well be a Lucchese. All there are barrators, except Bontura ;No into yes for money there is changed, says Dante of this Lucca in which 1 foundan aspect of busy commonplace, an air ofthrift and traffic, and in which I only feign tohave discovered an indifference to finer dare say Lucca is full of intelligence and po-lite learning, but she does not imbue her police-men and caffetieras with it, as Boston does. Yet I would willingly be at thismoment in a town where I couldstep out and see an old Romanamphitheater, built bodily up intothe modern city, and showing itsmighty ribs through the housessurrounding the market-place —a market-place quaint beyond anyother, with its tile-roofed stands and is much more silk in Lucca than inBoston, if we have
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