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Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 294

An illustration from Italian cities, 1903, leaf 294
hat the climb upis a close squeeze. There is a familiar somethinggone from the surroundings, and that something issoon remembered to be Dantes baptistery, whichdoes not exist from Brunelleschis dome, beingblotted out by the fagade of Santa Maria. Onehundred feet below, showing its upper and… … II We climbed the Campanile many times, and satfor hours sketching among the bells, great green fel-lows, beautiful in shape, as good bells are, beautiful,too, in their simple decoration which time has aided.They swing from their vermilion beams, in a sortof cage near the towers top, and just…

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