Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 372
red up by the thin plastering of modern times ;ancient memories keep their possession of it, the new lifehas hardly entered in. ^ High up on the side of one ofthe hills of the Val dElsa— The hill-sides crown where the wild hill brightens, as Mr Swinburne sings of it—it watches the fertilevalley of… … San Gimignano Apennines bar the eyes further progress. Behind it, tothe west, are hills that command a view of Volterra andthe distant Mediterranean. The woods that once gavethe little town its picturesque name— II Castello dellaSelva, the Castle of the Wood — have almostdisappeared. In their place…
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