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 44
Tuscany, after all, but a higheffort of creative Nature—Natura naturans, as Spinosacalls her ? Here, on the weather-fretted walls, aDelia Robbia blossoms out in natural colours—blue and white and green. They are Springscolours. You need not go into the Bargello tounderstand Luca and Andrea at their… … Eye of Italy lo throats and eyes of angels, singing, you might say,a childrens hymn to Our Lady, throned and purein the midst of the bevy. See the Spedale degliInnocenti, where a score of little flowery whitechildren grow, open-armed, out of their sky-bluemedallions. Really, are they lilies, or…
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