Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa

Florence and Northern Tuscany
with Genoa

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Title: Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen
Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other
Illustrations, Second Edition
Author: Edward Hutton
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FLORENCE
AND NORTHERN TUSCANY

WITH GENOA
BY EDWARD HUTTON
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O rosa delle rose, O rosa bella, Per te non dormo nè notte nè giorno, E
sempre penso alla tua faccia bella, Alle grazie che hai, faccio ritorno.
Faccio ritorno alle grazie che hai: Ch'io ti lasci, amor mio, non creder
mai.
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY WILLIAM
PARKINSON AND SIXTEEN OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
SECOND EDITION
LONDON, 1907, 1908
* * * * *
TO MY FRIEND WILLIAM HEYWOOD
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
FREDERIC UVEDALE: A ROMANCE STUDIES IN THE LIVES OF
THE SAINTS ITALY AND THE ITALIANS THE CITIES OF
UMBRIA THE CITIES OF SPAIN SIGISMONDO MALATESTA
COUNTRY WALKS ROUND FLORENCE. (_In the Press_). ROME.
(_In preparation_)
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[Illustration: FROM THE UFFIZI]
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CONTENTS

I. GENOA II. ON THE WAY III. PORTO VENERE IV. SARZANA
AND LUNA V. CARRARA, MASSA DUCALE, PIETRA-SANTA,
VIAREGGIO VI. PISA VII. LIVORNO VIII. TO SAN MINIATO AL
TEDESCO IX. EMPOLI, MONTELUPO, LASTRA, SIGNA X.
FLORENCE XI. PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA AND PALAZZO
VECCHIO XII. THE BAPTISTERY--THE DUOMO--THE
CAMPANILE--THE OPERA DEL DUOMO XIII. OR SAN
MICHELE XIV. PALAZZO RICCARDI, AND THE RISE OF THE
MEDICI XV. SAN MARCO AND SAVONAROLA XVI. SANTA
MARIA NOVELLA XVII. SANTA CROCE XVIII. SAN LORENZO
XIX. CHURCHES NORTH OF ARNO XX. OLTR'ARNO XXI. THE
BARGELLO XXII. THE ACCADEMIA XXIII. THE UFFIZI XXIV.
THE PITTI GALLERY XXV. FIESOLE AND SETTIGNANO XXVI.
VALLOMBROSA AND THE CASENTINO XXVII. PRATO XXVIII.
PISTOJA XXIX. LUCCA XXX. OVER THE GARFAGNANA

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR
VIEW FROM THE UFFIZI ON THE ROAD BADIA A SETTIMO
PONTE VECCHIO LOGGIA DE' LANZI PIAZZA DEL DUOMO OR
SAN MICHELE THE FLOWER MARKET, FLORENCE CHIOSTRO
DI S. MARCO S. MARIA NOVELLA OGNISSANTI VIA
GUICCIARDINI PONTE VECCHIO THE BOBOLI GARDENS
COSTA DI S. GIORGIO OUTSIDE THE GATE
IN MONOTONE
PORTO VENERE PISA WAX MODEL FOR THE PERSEUS IN THE
BARGELLO, BENVENUTO CELLINI THE MADONNA DELLA
CINTOLA, BY NANNI DI BANCO, DUOMO, FLORENCE
SINGING BOYS FROM THE CANTORIA OF LUCA DELLA
ROBBIA, OPERA DEL DUOMO, FLORENCE THE CRUCIFIXION,
BY FRA ANGELICO, S. MARCO, FLORENCE ST. JOHN THE
DIVINE, BY DONATELLO, DUOMO, FLORENCE THE LADY

WITH THE NOSEGAY (VANNA TORNABUONI), IN THE
BARGELLO, BY ANDREA VERROCCHIO "LA NOTTE," FROM
TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, BY MICHELANGELO THE
ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS, BY DOMENICO
GHIRLANDAJO, ACCADEMIA THE THREE GRACES, FROM
THE PRIMAVERA, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, ACCADEMIA
THE BIRTH OF VENUS, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, UFFIZI
GALLERY THE ANNUNCIATION, BY ANDREA VERROCCHIO,
UFFIZI GALLERY PIETÀ, BY FRA BARTOLOMMEO, PITTI
GALLERY THE TOMB OF ILARIA DEL CARETTO, BY JACOPO
DELLA QUERCIA, DUOMO, LUCCA THE TOMB OF THE
MARTYR S. ROMANO IN S. ROMANO, LUCCA, BY MATTEO
CIVITALI
[Illustration: A MAP OF THE CITIES OF NORTHERN TUSCANY]
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I. GENOA
I
The traveller who on his way to Italy passes along the Riviera di
Ponente, through Marseilles, Nice, and Mentone to Ventimiglia, or
crossing the Alps touches Italian soil, though scarcely Italy indeed, at
Turin, on coming to Genoa finds himself really at last in the South, the
true South, of which Genoa la Superba is the gate, her narrow streets,
the various life of her port, her picturesque colour and dirt, her
immense palaces of precious marbles, her oranges and pomegranates
and lemons, her armsful of children, and above all the sun, which lends
an eternal gladness to all these characteristic or delightful things, telling
him at once that the North is far behind, that even Cisalpine Gaul is
crossed and done with, and that here at last by the waves of that old and
great sea is the true Italy, that beloved and ancient land to which we
owe almost everything that is precious and valuable in our lives, and in
which still, if we be young, we may find all our dreams. What to us are

the weary miles of Eastern France if we come by road, the dreadful
tunnels full of despair and filth if we come by rail, now that we have at
last