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Italian backgrounds (1907)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Charles Scrinber's Sons · leaf 198

An illustration from Italian backgrounds, 1907, leaf 198
di-ments, flying angels, and vases filled with wrought-iron palm-branches. It is in summer that thesestreets are at their best. Then the old gardensoverhanging the Naviglio—the canal which inter-sects Milan with a layer of Venice—repeat in itswaters their marble loggias hung with the vine, andtheir… … ^U <f*= 15A.1A. 1 Jit, i; ^ ^ |~^ ^* i^^^^^^-^*^—?^ L[ V.ci PICTURESQUE MILAN shady turf, and terminating perhaps in a foun-tain set in some splendid architectural compositionagainst the inner wall of the building. In summer,too, the dark archways in the humbler quarters of thetown are…

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