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The Child of Pleasure
| Author: | Boyd, Ernest [Commentator]
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| Language: | English | |
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| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20015 | |
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... He complained of feeling very tired, and smoked while he told us of his ride. He had gone as far as Vicomile, where he had made a halt. 'Vicomile, he said, possesses three wonderful treasures--a pine wood, a tower, and a fifteenth-century monstrance. Imagine a pine wood, between the sea and the hill, interspersed by a number of pools that multiply the trees indefinitely; a campanile in the old rugged Lombardy style that goes back to the eleventh century--a tree-trunk of stone, as it were, covered with sculptured sirens and peacocks, serpents and griffins and dragons--a thousand and one monsters and flowers; and a silver-gilt monstrance all enamelled, engraved and chased--Gothico-Byzantine in style and form with a foretaste of Renaissance, the work of Gallucci, an almost unknown artist, but who was the great forerunner of Benvenuto Cellini---- 'He addressed himself all the time to me....