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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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was started on his great climbnot long after eight-thirty. The morning was per-fect, and we mounted up and up over the smoothestof roads, leaving the little Tarentaise village with itsquaint people and good cooking far beneath us in thevalley below. As we climbed nearer the snow moun-tains, we photographed some of the doll-like villagesscattered here and there on these great heights; andthen Antonio, who seems a veritable mountaingoat, carried us up to the hospice, past the great statueof Saint Bernard, formerly a Jupiter of the now-ruinedRoman temple here, over and down into Italia Ado-rata and the beautiful valley of Aosta. We had gonebut a short distance when some little boys ran outwith bunches of eidelweiss. Vincenzo (our chauffeur)begged permission to stop a moment, and I, fearingsomething was wrong with the car, gave an anxiousconsent. But my fears were turned to smiles whenVincenzo paid the boy for the largest bunch of flowers,and making a profound bow, handed them to me, (2)
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AND COUNTRY SEATS saying, Mi permetta doffrirle, Signora, il primoomaggio dItalia. (Permit me, Signora, to offeryou the first homage from Italy.) Wasnt that rathernice.? Poets and painters have vied with one another indescribing the wild, impressive beauties of this world-famed valley. My kodak has done fairly well for thefirst glimpse, but to really appreciate the full glory ofthe valley one must look upon it long, and from manypoints. In the distance are the great peaks of the Alps,crowned by Mont Blanc clad in Natures glorioussnow mantle; in the foreground are the lesser moun-tains, and jutting out into the valley are bold prom-ontories topped by crumbling towers and ruinedcastles, that command first one turn and then anotherof the great ravine, down which rush the joyous watersof the Dora. Schuberts water music played fortis-simo might describe this lovely stream, but everyadjective needs underlining when one speaks of Italy;yet however noisy the river, it is ever melodious andbea

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