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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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on the river bank, between thePonte Solferino and the Ponte Mezzo, can be seenon the way from the station to the Duomo, orvice versa. This pause at the little chapel for thesailors that go to sea will let one see at the sametime the graceful curve of the Arno, and some ofthe picturesque palace fagades along its rightbank. One of the beauties of the English cathedrals isthat derived from their setting, their quiet isolationin the green close that guards them from the pressand noise of the city streets. And conversely, thislack of churchyard is one of the misfortunes of mostof the great continental churches. Pisas duomo hasthe advantage of isolation and remoteness from thecity life; the Piazza del Duomo is really a greatchurchyard, holding easily, besides the cathedral, thebaptistry, the Campo Santo, and the campanile or leaning tower. Beginning with this last I hasten to say that actualacquaintance discovers it to be less a curiosity andmore an object of beauty than one thinks to find.
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Pisa 343 Not that it does not bear out satisfactorily its repu-tation for eccentricity; it leans; it leans amazingly;but its beautiful color, its successive wreaths of colon-nades, and its aspect of grace and lightness despitethe considerable diameter and simple cylindrical out-line, give one the gratifying surprise of discoveringbeauty where only bizarrerie was expected. Fromthe summit, reached by a wearying climb of nearlythree hundred steps, two things can be well appre-ciated, namely, the rare beauty of the Pisan moun-tain landscape, and the dizzying overhang that four-teen feet out of the perpendicular gives a tower onlythirteen times that many feet high. Turning from the campanile we may enter thecathedral by the old bronze doors of Bormanus, withtheir quaint picturing of Bible stories. Or we maywalk the quiet outer length of the great buildingand enter by one of the later but still respectably oldbronze doors of the splendid fagade. This is oneof the most beautiful church front

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