Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 95
74 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE details, it corresponds singularly to the Substance and the Spirit ofthe City it composed. The habits of the modern Florentine, formed on millenniums ofancestral experience, prepare us to believe that the ground-floor ofthe tower was not used for habitation, but that the… … winc^winddw. slf V/a. def yfocon/o/o shops. Even where older conditions prevail, the tiny wine-windows,with their lists of prices, show that the tradition of the place hasfor ages assigned the ground-floor to the storage and sale of countryproduce. We may believe that it was so from the beginning,…
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