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Identifier: storyofverona00wiel (find matches)
Title: The story of Verona
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wiel, Alethea, b. 1851
Subjects: Verona (Italy) -- History Verona (Italy) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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boldly out on a field of red, in harmoniouskeeping with the ermine-lined red cloak. The steedstands quietly by, and shows no apparent concern atthe way in which his hind legs are encircled withcoils of the dragons body. Another fresco close byrepresents the raising of Lazarus, where most of thespectators hold their noses, remembering evidentlyMarthas caution as to the four days that her brotherhad spent beneath the sod! This fresco which isByzantine in character is supposed to date from theeleventh century. Of the same, or maybe even anearlier date is a statue of S. Zeno, where his face ispainted black (to remind us of his Eastern origin) andhaving a fish attached to his pastoral rod, a token ofhis profession as a fisher of souls. Opening out from the church on the left handside are the cloisters, of striking and original beauty.They were built in the twelfth century, and consistof twisted columns of red Verona marble, cut from asingle block, and ingeniously held above and below by276
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277 Safi Zeno short pieces of marble. These were not added for thepurpose but cut, together with the columns, out of theone solid bit of marble which served to form thewhole. On the further side from the church thearches open out into a square form of arcading, thepillars here being larger than those of the actualcloisters. They were supposed to have stood rounda sort of lavatory used probably by the monks eitherfor themselves or for the vessels they required for theirservice. Some fine tombs are placed here in the cloisters,resting on brackets on the wall, and belonging to thegreat families of Verona. There is a quaint saying asto some of these families that lie buried here, and thatdeclares that they were : Bevilacqua, che mai labevero; Conti Veritk, che mai la dissero ; ContiGiusti che mai lo furono. (Bevilacqua—or Drink-water —- who never drank it; Counts Verita — orTruth—who never said it; Counts Giusti—or Just^—who never were it.) This saying certainly speaksbetter f

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