Earthwork out of Tuscany : being impressions and translations of Maurice Hewlett (1899)
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923, Kerr-Lawson, James · London : J.M. Dent · leaf 38
then, at Prato, a nut-brown old woman Eye of Italy 13 with a placid face got into our carriage with abasket of green figs and some bottles of milk forthe Florentine market. So we were nearing. Andsoon we ran in between lines of white and pinkvillas edged with rows of planes drenched still withdews… … rather the arm-chair, of Signora Vedova Paolini,chattiest and most motherly of landladies. Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Florence, form thefive elements of our planet according to the testi-mony of Boniface VIII. of clamant and not veryCatholic memory. That is true if you take it thisway. You cannot…
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