The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 243
wn became its vic-tim. That was the time when the Florentines not only conquered Fie-sole and other towns, but aided the Pisans in their contest with Luccaand Genoa. It was formerly far more populous and prosperous than itis at present; it contains about 10,000 inhabitants, and their chief… … The lon2:est and most interestino^ excursion made by our friendsduring their stay at Florence was to Yallombrosa, which has been madefamiliar to the English speaking public by the following lines fromMilton: Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooksIn Vallombrosa, where th Etrurian shadesHigh…
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