Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 85
wn walls. The a,scent wasboth steep and hot, but the view at the entrancegateway of the Citta over the great flat plain of Lom-bardy was very striking, and well repaid the labour ofthe ascent; a vast plain of bluish-green colour, inter-sected in all directions by rows of mulberry-trees, pop-lars,… … I Chap. IV. THE BROLETTO. 53 grand if only on account of its simplicity, and liad forus all the charm of novelty. Through very narrow, dirty streets, which do littlecredit to the cleanly habits of the Bergamask nobihty,to whom it seems that the Citta is sacred, we reachedat last the Piazza Vecchia,…
