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The story of Siena and San Gimignano (1902)

Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 381

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08-II4. I have sparedmy readers some of the details of cette existence dexpiation.Not many of us can look upon these things with the eyes ofM. J.-K. Huysmans, in his Sainle Lydnvwe de Schiedam : Elle fut,en somme, un fruit de souffrance, he Avrites of Lydwine,whose life was very like a prolonged… … San Gimignano life and legend. The towns where the streets are stillrunning red with ithe blood of the citizens, while theremains of houses and palaces are still smoking in theirruin, are visited by beings of another world, and havemystical gates and windows that open out upon theunseen. San…

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