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XII.—FELICIE DE FAUVEATT.
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*&s~ fresco Enteeing over Florence tlie ...
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Xii.—Felicie De Fauveatt.
XII . —FELICIE DE _FAUVEATT .
*&S~ Fresco Enteeing Over Florence Tlie ...
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pride Rome , of at art that . The happy blacksmith period ' s shop Romano is the apex forms of one a triang side of le the of which triangle the , Via base deg is li the BofE Arno of the which . other Borgo is . that Borgo house Romano dear to leads all lovers to Via of
poetry Maggio and , at the of Ital entrance y , Casa the studios Guidi . of Via Powers degli the Bom so American opens into and Via of delle Fedi Fornacein which are , ,
the Italian , Poetry sculptor and . scul This ture must ! be The recognised most therefore iritual and as h the allowe most d
_groimd . psp transmuted material art . everlasting Spirit clothed ly into in form sp , irit and . form— ' Men Via and delle Women
''home is But another of few the Eng classic mo lish st peop spot romantic , le if perhaps it be and not know mediaeval an , that Irishism in of the modern to call artists classic Fornace . , the If
you ring at that dark green door , and are admitted , you will find yourself ventThe in convent a paved has covered been court altered , formerl and adapted y the entrance to form a of modern a
conhabitation the The . court , rooms but opens traces another on of one its side door former on leads a consecration ni to ght the of studios stair are s still which , a third visible leads opens . to
upon upper a cool quiet , garden , shadowed over by the trees of the Villino Torrigiani here . Dove They cotes seem , p to igeon hold the houses spot , and by hereditary bird cages right are . very The
common . love It manifests of pets is itself a womanliness in different which ways , most according women to possess different in vocations common . artistShe whose mind
has and attained states , but the exists most in virile the and nun as lofty in expansion the . is not less subject continual and
to it , than she whose existence is one repression compression In this garden . the walks are hedged by laurels and cypresses , _-
the ( mournfull scents y and and ins the eparabl flowers y associated , whether , from as ever the , ) mixture and fragrant of Etruscan as are
or vases from and a , jars superstitious , gay which always belief suffered give of a mine melanchol , that y wherever and tomb the peop -like lace le aspect it have elf ,
ret endured ancient ains an convent hopelessness impress of Sta of § , it Chiara or , I must there confess disappointment was a that charm in aroun the , garden d p of stillness of s the
and seclusion , which was French very , lad sweet who but very accompanied sad . with her
To be surethe old y , me dress courteous as if m she anners , had , her walke bri d ght out black of the eyes frame , her of stately a picture old dated -fashioned fifty
years , ago , was not quite in character with the impression made by the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/11/
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