The Lily of the Arno
The Lily of the Arno

Author: Virginia W. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9781330914571

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Excerpt from The Lily of the Arno: Or Florence, Past and Present 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.

Florence, the Lily of the Arno
Florence, the Lily of the Arno

Author: Virginia W. 1849-1916 Johnson

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-08

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781355959038

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The Lily of the Arno
The Lily of the Arno

Author: Virginia Wales Johnson

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781458900180

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. COUNTRY BELLS. TN the summer twilight leave the shadows already gath- - ering close around the Florence Window, cross the Square of St. Mark, follow the Via Apollonia to the spacious Piazza dell' Indipendenza, and thence skirting the Fortezza, the railway bridge, and the wide Viale, gain the suspension bridge which spans the Arno from the bank of the Cascine to the opposite shore, and the fringe of low buildings comprising the quarter of the Pignone. The evening is pure and calm, the coloring of sky and earth such as no painter could reproduce. A rosy flush of sunset still glows in the heavens, and renders the Lucca Mountains of tawny and russet hues; Monte Morello basks in an amethystine light of incomparable transparency. Fiesole is suddenly transfigured from the hoary gray tints of earlier hours, as if the rock were sprinkled with ashes, to the soft lustre of the petal of a flower, while the glass of windows in the buildings sparkles, and a cloud rises beyond as the vapor hangs over Vesuvius on a slender stem, and curling outward toward the zenith, acquires the semblance of a gigantic pink plume. On the right hand, slender dark cypress-trees rise sharply around the sombre walls of the monastery of Monte Oliveto, and cluster before the Church of San Miniato, where the mosaic of the facade sparkles like jewels in the last rays of the setting sun. Eastward the hills are enfolded closely, forming the Casentino. Westward the white clouds linger on the summits of the Carrara range, as if they were the fragmentary reveries of the sculptor in the half-formed ideals of beauty, elusive and mocking, that may yet issue forth from the marble quarries as they have done for centuries. The river, dwindled to a mere glistening thread among the pebbles below the weir, has sti...