PREFACE A few words on the genesis of this book might seem to be called for. In the summer of 1907 I went up into Mont' Amiata, and moved by the extraordinary beauty and virility of that part of Central Italy as seen from the Mountain, I began to write down my impressions of it. Repetti's '' Dizionario,'' that best of all books on Tuscany, written some eighty years ago, the " Commentaries'' of Pio II. helped me with such historical facts as I needed, and in Barzellotti's ''David Lazzaretti" I foumd the thoughts of a native of Mont' Amiata on all that had happened in the Mountain that was his home [...]
Eight illustrations in colour By O. F. M. Ward and twenty other illustrations English Book PDF Free
A wanderer in Florence, by E. V. Lucas ... with sixteen illustrations in colour by Harry Morley and thirty-eight reproductions from paintings and sculpture.
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The art of the Pitti Palace.
with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures
FLORENCE! La Citta del Fiore! The City of Flowers! At the mere mention of its name visions rise in our minds of all that is beautiful in Art, and all that is...
