Americans in Florence: A Complete Guide to the City and the Places Associated with Americans Past and PresentGiunti Editore, 2003 - 189 стор. |
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Walk 1 | 78 |
The centre of the city | 91 |
Walk 2 | 101 |
Walk 4 | 119 |
Walk 5 | 149 |
Concise | 182 |
Index of buildings | 188 |
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19th century Andrea Arno art historian artists Badia Bargello beautiful Bellosguardo Bernard Berenson Boboli Borgo Campanile Casa centre chapel church of Santa Cosimo cypresses Dante Domenico Ghirlandaio Duomo Edith Wharton façade famous Fiesole Firenze Florence Florentine FOOD & DRINK frescoes Galleria garden Giovanni Giullari Giuseppe Grand-Duke Henry James hill Italian Italy Jarves lived in Florence Loeser lovely Lungarno Madonna Maiano marble masterpieces Medici Mensola Michelangelo Monte Museo museum née numerous Ognissanti Oltrarno painter paintings Palazzo Pitti Palazzo Vecchio Piazza della Signoria Piazza Santa pietre dure Pietro Poggio Ponte Santa Trinita Ponte Vecchio Porta portrait present-day resident Renaissance rence rentines RESTAURANTS restored Roman San Domenico San Leonardo San Lorenzo San Miniato San Niccolò Santa Croce Santa Maria Novella Santa Trinita Santo Spirito sculpture Settignano statue Strozzi trattoria tury Tuscan Uffizi uphill Vespucci Viale Villa I Tatti Vincigliata visitors Walk wall writer
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Сторінка 20 - Romance, was chiefly valuable to him as affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Сторінка 84 - The charm of the Mediterranean coast only deepened for our heroine on acquaintance, for it was the threshold of Italy, the gate of admirations. Italy, as yet imperfectly seen and felt, stretched before her as a land of promise, a land in which a love of the beautiful might be comforted by endless knowledge.
Сторінка 141 - It was the mask, not the face of the house. It had heavy lids, but no eyes; the house in reality looked another way — looked off behind, into splendid openness and the range of the afternoon light.
Сторінка 178 - Gamberaia has been described thus in detail because it combines in an astonishingly small space, yet without the least sense of overcrowding, almost every typical excellence of the old Italian garden : free circulation of sunlight and air about the house; abundance of water ; easy access to dense shade ; sheltered walks with different points of view ; variety of effect produced by the skilful use of different levels ; and, finally, breadth and simplicity of composition.
Сторінка 36 - Perseus. Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.