Litchfield enquirer., 1860-02-23
For tho Litchield Enquirer. CORRESPONDENTS FROM EUROPE.

PERUGIA, Jan. 8, 1860.
 On the 3lst, went through the Convent of San Marco at Florence, to see some cells with frescoes cf Fra Angelica da Fiesole, whose name l now never see on the guide book without being sure of Pre- Raphael ite pleasure. All my ideas of painting are the growth of few weeks in Florence {; but one of the dstinctest of them, is a de- light in tha, early painting at which have always been accustomed to laugh so much, as it is caricatured in Punch. Mrs. Stowe congratulated me on fulfilling the second of Goldsmith's branches of advice to those who would be connoisseurs with safety s.drsd, first, t1 saX the artist might have done nearly passed through the early. interesting stage of Carlo Doici enthusiasm.
 Monday Morning, Jan. 2d.-We started at half past ten-myself, young man from Boston, aud my friend s. of Cornwall, who is capital fellow. Alter dark, and walk of twenty-three miles, through slippery mud and something quite like ram, we found rather seedy quarters in little inn at the village of San Giovanni. spent part of the evening in reading to the inn.people from an Italian version of About's Romun Ques- tion, and was greatly pleased to See how profoundly they ageed with it all, especially the women. Their opinions, and their feel ings were much more decided than 1 had any expectation of finding them, with re- gard to their own recent government, to the temporal power of the Popes. and to the great superabundance of priests and monks which swarms iu Italy. They were quite amused when called the latter fsatecehi, their termination expressing intense con. tempt. In the morning we saw in an ugly little church here, just inside the door, un- der glass cover, just as it was found thirty years ago, strange, withercd body of Q man, which had been built up in the wall, when, or for what cause, no one can tell :; but no doubt, alive. Nothing could be more distinctly expressive of the agouies of just such death, than everything about thls ghastly figure. The skin was completely preserved. no part concealed by drapery, and, excepting its hard, dry, parchment look, seemed not unlike that of living man. The arms were crossed on the breast-thc feet violently curved downward as if to raise the body upon the toes to the very utmost height--the head thrown back, and the nose and mouth thrust up, all to catch the last fraction of mouthful of air before his final suffocation-and the whole countenance, with it's open mouth and sunken eyes, bear. ing look of suffering and despair such as would be hard to conceive without seeing. There he had stood for ever SO many hun. dred years, until some workmen, in making repairs. broke into, and laid open his narrow brick cell. 4&i "r That day, under clouds, we kept on. uT the valley of the Arno, through country of clayey hills, twenty-three miles to Arez 20. Here we stopped next day, which wal rainy :ound one noble old basilica, of per haps the 9th century, made up by the Lom bards of quantities of classical fragments
 and the Duomo, of which the good Gothit has been. as almost universally in Italy, moro | ruined by devotion, than in the North bl iconaclasm.. Thursday, 5th, we had bright CT weather and went on, up the broad, lux uriant Val di Cbians, its surface, under tn, leafess mulberry-trees, brilliant with youn, corn and after walk of seventeen miles climbed the steep mountain. rising near thousand feet above the plain, on the sun
 nit and sides of which is compacted the lit tie labyrinthine town of Cortona. Befor reaching this, however, we turned of. ou road to n great artificial tumulus called b
 the peasants 1" Il Melone''- ''--nearly ropnd-- some 70 feet in diameter, and 20 feet high One side has lately been opened, showing Q it's base, (its period is Etruscan, . sepu
 chral chamber, (others have been re-interre
 by the falling of the pile) of very beautiful IG jointed masonry, strangely unlike th ,unhewn Cyclopean masses which had see
 hesped in the walls of Fiesole. or, the san afternoon, in the foundation of the nor 4modssn ~alk q epFtona. The superstru'