The Pentameron: And Other Imaginary Conversations (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Walter Savage Landor

9780332041810: The Pentameron: And Other Imaginary Conversations (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332041816 ISBN 13: 9780332041810

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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I am master of the very place to which the greatest genius of Italy, or the Continent, conducted those ladies who told such pleasant tales in the warm weather, and the very scene of his Ninfale. In 1829, by the kindness of a wealthy friend, who lent him the necessary money, Landor had been enabled to purchase this most enviable piece of property, and here, with his Children, he found endless delight in his gardens and fountains, his myrtles and pomegranates, his conservatories for lemons and oranges, and the French fruit trees he was planting. I have the best water, the best air, and the best oil in the world. I have a residence for life, and literally may sit under my own Vine and my own fig tree. And, to crown these delights, that divinity of early days, Ianthe, no longer young, appeared at Florence, and assisted at the planting operations.

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