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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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SAN MICIIELE. us* FLORENCE. 169 A marble statue of Dante, which was uncovered for the first time during the Festivalof 1865, stands on the Piazza of Santa Croce. And within quite recent years the facadeof Santa Croce, which, like the fronts of so many Florentine churches, had been left un-finished, has been covered with dazzling white marble.* Santa Croce is the oldest and finestof all the churches belonging to the mendicant orders ; it contains a noble monument toDante, and is, in fact, the Pantheon of Florence. In the colossal space of the nave, which
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IN FRONT OF THE LOGGIA BE LANZI. is only the more impressive by reason of its extreme simplicity, are buried, under splendidmonuments, some of the greatest Italians: Michael Angelo, Galileo, Alberti, Alfieri,Macchiavelli. Dantes bones rest in far-away Ravenna. Santa Croce contains, moreover,some tombs of the earliest Renaissance period, the frescos of Giotto in the chapel behindthe choir, and the exquisite marble pulpit adorned with delicate sculpture, by Benedettoda Majano. In the exterior cloister is the chapel of the Pazzi, designed by Brunelleschi.It was built in the year 1420, and is one of the earliest, as well as one of the finest,specimens of the revival of classical architecture. * At the expense of an Englishman, the late Mr. Sloane.— Translators note. z ITALY. FLORENTINE ART. LORENCE, the modern Athens! There is a great similarity between boththese most important nurseries of culture :—a similarity in their deeds andworks, their struggles and victories, their good and b

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