Author: J. Wood Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781330571965

Excerpt from Florence, Past and Present This and the following pages are to stand between the Title and the Book itself; they may well be used to explain the one by way of preparing for the other. Now, in a word, the Past and Present here are not two but one thing. To have spoken of the latent past, to have called the present its vehicle, had more nearly expressed what we are to seek and find in the following chapters. Let me make place here for two examples of what I mean. Ten years ago, in the heat of a Tuscan summer, I made one of a party that drove to see a famous park. The villa belonging to it, we found, was not shown; it was then, and is now, the residence of a man of great title, but insane, for whom it had been chosen as a residence at once suitable to his high rank, and remote enough to give him the quiet retreat his state requires. Our guide to the beauties of the place was very willing to speak of the invalid, nor is there now any reason why I should not repeat what I then heard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.