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Identifier: italiancities01blas (find matches)
Title: Italian cities
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918
Subjects: Art -- Italy Cities and towns -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hrowing deep shadows andsuggesting machicolations through which weredropped stones and beams in the days of street-battle ; of shrines at corners, glassed and dustynow, but out of which the long-eyed saints of thefourteenth century look, wondering that the war-cries are gone and that only the street-cries remain;of shadowed streets, and at some opening a burst ofsunlit fagade of that checkered pattern, in blackand white, so dear to mediawal Florentine eyes,while often and again, in semicircle of white andblue, Madonna with the baby, ringed by a bowery,flowery angel brood, smiles upon one and says thatif war is transitory, beauty is immortal Above all, one carries away in his memory theimage of those buildings which are the outgrowth ofthe city, her stamp and mark, inseparable from heras the Arno, and as familiar to the eyes of moderntravel as was the lily on the florin to the merchantsupon every mediaeval change of Europe. They 20G GALLICANO SANT JACOPO ANDREA DELLA ROBBIA ALTAR PIECE
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IN FLORENCE WITH ROMOLA staud guard over the town like the stone saintsat the doorway of a churcli: the Cathedral, a hugeChristopher, lifting the cross upon the greatest of alldomes; the fair Campanile, like a Gabriel of theAnnunciation, wearing the lily of Florence, and call-ing Ave Maria from its peal of bells; and thePalazzo Vecchio, the Michael of the city, bearingthe shields of the republic, summoning the towns-men to arms, and giving voice to the will of thepeople. Then, too, there are San Giovanni, where theFlorentines are baptized, and Santa Croce, wherethe great are buried; the square strength of theBargello and the slender Badia tower that rings thehour to the city. All these make up Florence, and nearly all canbe included within a small rectangle bounded onthe south by the river, on the east by the Via delLeoni and Via del Proconsolo running from theArno to the Cathedral; the latter, with its vastlength, and the Baptistery to the west of it, makinga large part of the northe

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