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Title: The Florence of Landor
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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theunknown future. Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong tothem !They, too, are on the road — they are the swift and majesticmen — they are the greatest women. For Landor, indeed, the great Companionswere on their way. What a note of truth wastouched by Dickens when he said that the peoplewhom we are to meet, and who are to meet us,are all approaching; and what they are to do forour lives, and we for theirs, will all be done.There are the beings born under the same star;there are those who are to us as merely the fur-niture of the world ; but the relations in eachcase are as fixed and as unerring as those ofthe stars in their courses. Any one watchingkeenly the stealthy convergence of human lots,says George Eliot, sees a slow preparation ofeffects from one life on another, which tells likea calculated irony on the indifference or thefrozen stare with which we look at our unintro-duced neighbor. Destiny stands by sarcasticwith our dramatis personce folded in her hand. 8
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VIA TORNABUONI. THE FLORENCE OF LANDOR Destiny stood by as Walter Savage Landorentered Florence that April day and saw theCampanile, a lily in stone, rising into theItalian sky, and the Veiled Figure, Destiny,held folded in her hand the dramatis personceof that wonderful Anglo-Florentine group whowere destined, during the Landor period of 1821-1864, to leave a new impress upon the romanticatmosphere of this Flower of all Cities and Cityof all Flowers. The Florence of Landor differed little, inoutward aspect, from the Florence of to-day.No annual influx of thirty thousand springtourists, it is true, then made vocal the ViaTornabuoni with their conversational raptures,expressed almost as invariably in English as areany fragments of conversational interchange onemay chance to hear on Fifth Avenue, as thetide of Florentine tourists loiters before windowdisplays of Italian art, or pauses by the grimand massive walls of the ancient Strozzi palaceagainst which a flower vendor piles his masse

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