Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-06
KILLOCH LETTERS FROM ABROAD.
Florence rno-Duomo-Cam panile-Baptistry- Piazza
della Signoras- Savonarola- Paazza Vecchio -" La
Vecca"-Uffizi and Pitt Galleries g. David Pons
Vecchio-Pitti Palace Boboli-Bi rthplaces of the
Great Santa Croce-.Rajah of Kalapore.

which took twenty-five skilled artists
twenty five years to complete at a cost
of $90,000I
The Academy of Fine Arts is another
fine collection of masterpieces, but
mostly celebrated for containing the
colossal David by Angelo.
The Pitt gallery although distinct
entirely, is practically a succession
of the Uffizi, as one can go direct
from one to the other on the same COR
ridor and in the same building by the
payment of an additional Ira. 1t is
a fair rival and loud and earnest are
the controversies of visitors over the
claims and contents of the two The
salons of the Pitt stretch out in SEEM
ingly endless succession, and when one
energies finally at the further entrance
he finds that he has crossed the River
Arno by the upper story of the Pons
Vecclinoi This is the ancient bridge
most revered, historic and singular in
construction. 1t is about six centuries
old. This covered gallery of art not
only crosses it but it has a broad
paved driveway, sidewalks and it is
lined by scores of small but elegant
stores of jewelry, arts and antiques.
The Pitt palace is just beyond
which was the abode of the royal fam
lily when Florence had a king of it's
own, and the dwelling of the president
when Florence was a republic. It is
carefully kept and opened to the public
on certain days. Fortunately we were
here on such a day. When the king
visits the city he uses the palace. It's
spacious apartments are of royal SPLEEN
dor and it contains much of beauty
and value. It's silver treasury chamber
has the royal plate and many costly
curios.
The Bobon gardens adjoining con
tain many acres of flowers, arbOrs,
foliage. walks with Statuary and seem
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galore.
There are houses of great men to be
visited by a drive in a taxicab. that of
Angelo. who was born here 1874, that
of Cellini, born 1900 and died in the
same house 1870, that where Dante was
born 1865 that of Calico, where he
lived many years, though he was born
and died elsewhere. Here Milton visit
ed him. That of Glinberti, where he
was born 1873. That of Maohiavelli,
where he was born 1859. That of
Amerigo Vespucci, born here 1851,
our western hemisphere. The Brown
ing house is of special interest to the
poatical. as here Robert and Elizabeth
dwelt and wrote in choice rhyme.
The Protestant cemetery is largely
visited by English and Americans. as
it contains the remains of many of our
language. including Elizabeth Brown
ing TrOllOpe Sander, C1ough, Theodore
Parker. These and many Others have
mural tablets in the Santa Croce.
which is a large cathedral which has
appropriately been called the West
minister abbey of this city.
In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie
ashes which make it holier, dust which
is. even in itself, an immortality;
though there We're nothing save the
past, and this. the particle of those
sublimities which have relapsed to
chaos.
In the Cascini in the suburbs, which
is a delightful park, is a peculiar
monument to the Raiah of Kolapore
He was a ruler of a province in India
who, travelling with his suite in Eu
rope suddenly died here in 1870.
But we must stop and reluctantly
prepare to leave en- route for Venice,
where the next viii find
KILLOCH.