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Identifier: bywaysinsouthern00hook (find matches)
Title: Byways in southern Tuscany
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hooker, Katharine, 1849-1934
Subjects: Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ied about it.The child smiled contentedly, yet her pitiful toy seemeda symbol of the poverty about her. Extending from the castle gate to the piazza, the streetis paved with warm red brick laid in herring-bone pattern,here and there sunken and uneven but quite complete.Upon the piazza itself it is elaborately paneled and thedesign spreads in two indicated pathways, the left leadingto the small Street of the Hebrews, which grazes the outerwall, while the right, somewhat choked after a whilewith brambles, conducts one to the cathedral. Upon thepiazza face the Communal Palace, that of the podestd,two small churches, and the prison. Everything thatonce embellished the fronts of these buildings—mouldings,torch sockets, projections of every kind—has been strippedaway and the arched doors and windows filled in. Uponthe facade of the Palace of the Podesta one opening onlyhas been left and that is wide to wind and weather; butcertain of the ancient coats of arms still cling to the wall 242
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BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY and the stump of a column protrudes obliquely from arough restoration at the base of the building. The tenth century cathedral, whose architecture indi-cates the progress from Longobard to Gothic, stands uponwhat must once have been a piazza of its own; the lastbuilding within the walls, but turns its back squarelyupon Sovana in order to orient itself correctly. It hasbecome a curious huddle of walls. From its low roof atower rises a few feet, beginning as a rectangle and devel-

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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Hooker__Katharine__1849_1934
  • booksubject:Tuscany__Italy_____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:London___T_F__Unwin
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  • bookleafnumber:362
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