Monaldi: Tale (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Washington Allston

9780331550252: Monaldi: Tale (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331550253 ISBN 13: 9780331550252

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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There is sometimes so striking a resemblance between the autumnal sky of Italy and that of New England at the same season, that when the peculiar features of the scenery are obscured by twilight it needs but little aid of the imagination in an American traveller to fancy himself in his own country; the bright orange of the horizon, fading into a low yellow, and here and there broken by a slender bar of molten gold, with the broad mass of pale apple-green blending above, and the sheet of deep azure over these, gradually darkening to the zenith - all carry him back to his dearer home. It was at such a time as this, and beneath such a sky, that (in the year 17 while my vettura was slowly toiling up one of the mountains of Abruzzo, I had thrown myself back in the carriage, to enjoy one.

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