Author : Edward Hutton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332851822
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (518 download)
Book Synopsis Florence and Northern Tuscany With Genoa (Classic Reprint) by : Edward Hutton
Download or read book Florence and Northern Tuscany With Genoa (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Hutton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Florence and Northern Tuscany With Genoa It was by sea that John Evelyn came to Genoa after many adventures; and though we must be content to forego much of the surprise and romance of an advent such as that, yet for us too there remain many wonderful things which we may share with him. The waking at dawn, for instance, for the first time in the South, with the noise in our ears of the bells Of the mules carrying merchandise to and from the ships in the Porto; the sudden delight that we had not felt or realised, weary as we were on the night before, at finding ourselves really at last in the way of such things, the shouting of the muleteers, the songs of the sailors getting their ships in gear for the seas, the blaze of sunlight, the pleasant heat, the sense of everlasting summer. These things, and so much more than these, abide for ever; the splendour of that ancient sea, the gesture Of' the everlasting mountains, the calmness, joy, and serenity of the soft sky. Something like this is what I always feel on coming to that proud city of palaces, a sort of assurance, a spirit Of delight. And in spite of all Tennyson may have thought to say, for me it is not the North but the South that is bright and true and tender. For in the North the sky is seldom seen and is full of clouds, while here it stretches up to God. And then, the South has been true to all her ancient faiths and works, to the Catholic religion, for instance, and to agriculture, the old labour of the corn and the wine and the oil, while we are gone after Luther and what he leads to, and, forsaking the fields, have taken to minding machines. And so, in some dim way I cannot explain, to come to Italy is like coming home, as though after a long journey one were to come suddenly upon one's mistress at a comer of the lane in a shady place. It is perhaps with some such joy in the heart as this that the fortunate traveller will come to Genoa the Proud, by the sea, lying on the bosom of the mountains, whiter than the foam of her waves, the beautiful gate of Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
