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Title: In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, 1867-1937
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Publisher: New York: Holt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, cultivated by an energeticsociety of nature lovers, making toward preservationof the bird remnants. And so persistent are thesongsters in their love of Italys blue skies and softairs, that, in spite of their centuries of persecution,they seem ready with the slightest encouragement torestock the coverts and hedge-rows and fields, andto make Italy the land of bird song it ought in allfitness to be. Climbing out of the ravine, our way took us upan open hill-slope, and, after an hours walking, toMahnantilc. It was a good day to be out, clear forthe long views and warm for the quiet restings bythe roadside. Some grapes were still hanging, butthe pickers had abandoned the vineyards, so thatall was still in them except for the few, the alto-gether too few, staccato bird chirps, Malmantilewas an amazing place to enter. It was a veritablewalled-in city, or rather not a city but the smallestsort of village, a hamlet of poor little houses, withone street, and no shops. Soon we realized that it
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San Miniato, Certosa, Signa 235 had been originally, in truth, no fortified town, nowalled village, but simply a great, unroofed, squarecastello—a castello all walls and wall-towers, butwithout banqueting halls and living-rooms—just awalled camp. The walls themselves, intact in alltheir extent, except for the two open gateways, arenot so in their height. They have been cut off,broken off, at the top, for several meters. Hereand there they are evidently nearly of their originalheight, for the expanded upper courses appear.They are massive, immense, and impressive. The hamlet they inclose is most abject—dilapi-dated huts, decrepit barnyard beasts, apathetic peo-ple. What an odd heritage of war and days ofglory is theirs! And what a marvel of reachingview of distant hills and placid valley stretches theyhave from the crest of their crumbling walls! Butthis heritage means nothing to them; this scenery ofUmbrian hills does nothing to fill their hungrymouths. Want blinds their eyes to

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