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Venice and Venetia (1911)

Hutton, Edward, 1875- · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 332

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I grew weary: first of the mud, then of the dust, thenof the endless vista of every road, the lack of variety, thedamnable iteration of city after city, all of the plain and all ofa piece. I was home-sick for the outlines of Tuscany, the hillsof olives, that are silver in the wind, over the golden… … VICENZA 275 to Vicenza. I found it as a child finds an overlooked giftlong forgotten out of mind. It gave me back my heart. Noone writes of Vicenza though it is famous, no one speaks of itthough it is a household word, no one goes to it though it ison the highway. Its name is as familiar in the…

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