Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 40
or twentieth-century taste laughs at these puerile devices, butare we really so far in advance of them ? The Sea-horse fountain, a bold and effective piece of workattributed to Bernini, occupies a prominent position where four alleysmeet. From out the shadow of the great basin issue forth… … Not a stones throw away lies the Piazza di Siena, a kind ofhippodrome, with continuous seats, or steps, raised one above another,and the running track marked out by tall cypresses, and hedges of box,which according to Percier and Fontaine was laid out at the end of theeighteenth century. Behind the…
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