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Florence in poetry, history, and art (1913)

Ryan, Sara Agnes · Chicago : The Mayer and Miller Co. · leaf 160

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pursue (what can we bet-ter?)Those who assembled there at matin-time;Who, when vice revelled and along the streetTables were set, what tirade the bearers bellBang to demand the dead at every door,Came out into the meadows; and, awhileWandering in idleness, but not in folly,Sate down in the high… … The Decameron J. Wagrez Boccaccio. Bound the green hill they went,Bound underneath, first to a splendid house,Gherardi, as an old tradition runs,That on the left, just rising from the vale;A place for luxury,—the painted rooms,The open galleries and middle courtNot unprepared, fragrant and gay with…

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