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Italian backgrounds (1905)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : C. Schribner's Sons · leaf 222

An illustration from Italian backgrounds, 1905, leaf 222
and camellias.Then, in the more aristocratic streets, the palacedoorways yield vistas of double and triple court-yards, with creeper-clad arcades enclosing spaces of [162] The Tower of S. Stefano PI N black-veiled nr. igh the dr- at the sum? But on*: ater a c ••»• cross a thresl)f»l )e the variety… … 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 brightened by fruit-stalls embowered infoliage, and heaped with such…

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