. 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
PIETA, 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