A wanderer in Florence : with thirty-eight reproductions from paintings and sculputre (1922)
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 372
ompanionsin their retreat, especially as all three, like all seven of theyoung women, were accomplished tellers of stories withno fear whatever of Mrs. Grundy? And thus the De-cameron of Giovanni Boccaccio came about. S. Maria Novella also resembles S. Croce in its movinggroups of sight-seers each… … o t H<I—IU <w H GHIRLANDAIO 299 and for worshippers. But S. Maria Novella has not a titheof S. Croces treasures. Having almost no tombs of firstimportance, it has to rely upon its interior beauty andupon its frescoes, and its chief glory, whatever Mr. Ruskin,who hated them, might say, is, for…
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