The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript . f theDecameron on each side of it, with the valley whichhis company resorted to in the middle, but has madethe two little streams that embrace Maiano, the Affricoand the Mensola, the hero and heroine of his Nimphale? Fiesolano, A lover and his mistress are changed into them, after the fashion of Ovid. The scene of anotherof his w^orks is on the banks of the Mugnone, a river! a little distant; and the Decameron is full of the neigh- bouring villages. Out of t
The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript . f theDecameron on each side of it, with the valley whichhis company resorted to in the middle, but has madethe two little streams that embrace Maiano, the Affricoand the Mensola, the hero and heroine of his Nimphale? Fiesolano, A lover and his mistress are changed into them, after the fashion of Ovid. The scene of anotherof his w^orks is on the banks of the Mugnone, a river! a little distant; and the Decameron is full of the neigh- bouring villages. Out of the windows of one side of? our house we saw the turret of the Villa Gherardi,^ to [ See Roberto Gherardis La Villeggiatura di Majano (1740)quoted in Mrs. Rosss Florentine Villas, 1901.] [* See Florentine Villas (1901, p. 132 sq.), by Janet Ross. Mrs. Ross are at present the hospitable owners of the castel-lated villa known as Poggio Gherardo, two miles east of Florenceabove the Seltignano road. The east wing was destroyed by SirJohn Hawkwood. But for this, the square machicolated castlehas changed little since 1348.] 148. t/e^ FLORENCE—ITALY IN GENERAL which, according to his biographers, his joyous coni4pany resorted in the first instance. A house belong^ing to the MacchiaveUi was nearer, a little to the left ;*and farther to the left, among the blue hills, was thewhite village of Settignano, where Michael Angelo wasborn. The house is still in possession of the family. ;|From our windows on the other side we saw, close to J^us, the Fiesole of antiquity and of Milton, the site of ;»the Boccaccio-house before mentioned still closer, the yDecameron s Valley of Ladies at our feet; and we %looked over towards the quarter of the Mugnone and \of a house of Dante, and in the distance beheld themountains of Pistoia. Lastly, from the terrace infront, Florence lay clear and cathedralled before us,?with the scene of Redis Bacchus rising on the other iside of it, and the Villa of
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