Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List Of Illustrations In Volume II
- CHAPTER XXX CIVITA VECCHIA—CENTUM CELLÆ.
- CHAPTER XXXI SANTA MARINELLA—PUNICUM
- CHAPTER XXXII SANTA SEVERA.—PYRGI
- CHAPTER XXXIII CERVETRI—AGYLLA OR CÆRE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV PALO—ALSIUM
- CHAPTER XXXV LUNI—LUNA
- CHAPTER XXXVI PISA.—PISÆ.
- CHAPTER XXXVII FIRENZE.—FLORENTIA
- CHAPTER XXXVIII FIESOLE.—FÆSULÆ
- CHAPTER XXXIX SIENA—SENA.
- CHAPTER XL VOLTERRA.—VOLATERRÆ
- CHAPTER XLI VOLTERRA.—VOLATERRÆ
- CHAPTER XLII THE MAREMMA
- CHAPTER XLIII POPULONIA—POPULONIA
- CHAPTER XLIV ROSELLE—RUSELLÆ
- CHAPTER XLV TELAMONE—TELAMON
- CHAPTER XLVI ORBETELLO
- CHAPTER XLVII ANSEDONIA—COSA
- CHAPTER XLVIII VETULONIA
- CHAPTER XLIX SATURNIA—SATURNIA
- CHAPTER L CHIUSI—CLUSIUM
- CHAPTER LI CHIUSI—CLUSIUM
- CHAPTER LII CHIUSI—CLUSIUM
- CHAPTER LIII CETONA AND SARTEANO
- CHAPTER LIV CHIANCIANO AND MONTEPULCIANO
- CHAPTER LV AREZZO—ARRETIUM
- CHAPTER LVI CORTONA—CORTONA
- CHAPTER LVII PERUGIA—PERUSIA
- CHAPTER LVIII PERUGIA—PERUSIA
- CHAPTER LIX ROME
- Index
- ERRATA IN VOL. II.
- Maps
CHAPTER XXXVIII - FIESOLE.—FÆSULÆ
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List Of Illustrations In Volume II
- CHAPTER XXX CIVITA VECCHIA—CENTUM CELLÆ.
- CHAPTER XXXI SANTA MARINELLA—PUNICUM
- CHAPTER XXXII SANTA SEVERA.—PYRGI
- CHAPTER XXXIII CERVETRI—AGYLLA OR CÆRE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV PALO—ALSIUM
- CHAPTER XXXV LUNI—LUNA
- CHAPTER XXXVI PISA.—PISÆ.
- CHAPTER XXXVII FIRENZE.—FLORENTIA
- CHAPTER XXXVIII FIESOLE.—FÆSULÆ
- CHAPTER XXXIX SIENA—SENA.
- CHAPTER XL VOLTERRA.—VOLATERRÆ
- CHAPTER XLI VOLTERRA.—VOLATERRÆ
- CHAPTER XLII THE MAREMMA
- CHAPTER XLIII POPULONIA—POPULONIA
- CHAPTER XLIV ROSELLE—RUSELLÆ
- CHAPTER XLV TELAMONE—TELAMON
- CHAPTER XLVI ORBETELLO
- CHAPTER XLVII ANSEDONIA—COSA
- CHAPTER XLVIII VETULONIA
- CHAPTER XLIX SATURNIA—SATURNIA
- CHAPTER L CHIUSI—CLUSIUM
- CHAPTER LI CHIUSI—CLUSIUM
- CHAPTER LII CHIUSI—CLUSIUM
- CHAPTER LIII CETONA AND SARTEANO
- CHAPTER LIV CHIANCIANO AND MONTEPULCIANO
- CHAPTER LV AREZZO—ARRETIUM
- CHAPTER LVI CORTONA—CORTONA
- CHAPTER LVII PERUGIA—PERUSIA
- CHAPTER LVIII PERUGIA—PERUSIA
- CHAPTER LIX ROME
- Index
- ERRATA IN VOL. II.
- Maps
Summary
Chi Fiesol hedifico conobbe el loco
Come gia per gli cieli ben composto.
—Faccio degli Uberti.Vires autem veteres earum urbium hodieque magnitndo ostentat moenium.
Vell.PaterculsThe first acquaintance the traveller in Italy makes with Etruscan antiquities—the first time, it may be, that he is reminded of such a race—is generally at Fiesole. The close vicinity to Florence, and the report that some remains are to be seen there, far older than Roman days, attract the visitor to the spot. He there beholds walls of great massiveness, and a few other remains, but forms a very imperfect conception of the race that constructed them. He learns, it is true, from the skill displayed in these monuments, that the Etruscans could not have been a barbarous people; but the extent and character of their civilisation are still to him a mystery. It is not at Fiesole that this early people is to be comprehended.
Who, that has visited Florence, does not know Fiesole— the Hampstead or Highgate of the Tuscan capital—the Sunday resort of Florentine Cockneyism? Who does not know that it forms one of the most picturesque objects in the scenery around that most elegant of cities, crowning a height, three miles to the north, with its vine-shaded villas and cypress-girt convents, and rearing its tall Cathedral-tower between the two crests of the mount? Who has not lingered awhile on his way at Dante's mill, and, in spite of the exclusiveness of English proprietorship, who has not in imagination overleapt the walls of the Villa, hallowed by “The Hundred Tales of Love,” and beheld
“Boccaccio's Garden and its faery,
The love, the joyaunce, and the gallantry!”
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- The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria , pp. 118 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1848