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Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages (1910)

Waern, Cecilia, 1853- · London, Duckworth & co · leaf 406

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m, with its inkstands and greenbaize, as one lingers there alone, trying to read allthese stories one by one. One notices an evidentdelight, as on the charming contemporary Frenchivory mirror-cases, in prettily told love-stories, sosimple and sweet that one cannot, or need not, tryto derive them… … O s < < < ■ = ? ICl, ^ W *-I o ^ Z o wu QW X o I \, FREDERIC II. AND SICILIAN GOTHIC from a tower, with two more incidents of travel,and finally a wedding, might be any tale of knightlyadventure, but is evidently the mediasval versionof the tale of Perseus and Andromeda. One ofthe most…

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