A VISIT TO LA VERNIA 



1884 



" Salve Mons felix Sinai felicior illo 



Scripsit ubi Moysi jura sacrata Deus, 

 Te super apparens Crucifixus tua refulsit 

 Francisco oranti Stigmata sacra dedit." 



FRA LUCIDO. 



AREZZO is one of those Tuscan cities which is the most 

 easy of access, and the most seldom visited by ordi- 

 nary travellers. The very fact that it is only three 

 hours by train from Florence, and lies on the main 

 line to Rome, rather tends to produce this result. 

 Yet Arezzo offers many attractions both to the student 

 of art and history, and those who can devote a few 

 days to the study of its antiquities will find the time 

 well spent. 



In the first place, Arezzo is a bright and pleasant 

 town, prettily situated on a sloping hill, which rises 

 gently from the Val Chiana, and surrounded by 

 loftier mountains. It is famous for the lightness 

 and salubrity of its air, which, as long ago as Giovanni 

 Villani's days, was popularly supposed to impart a 

 certain delicacy and refinement of intellect in the 

 words of Michael Angelo, " sottilitd " to its natives. 

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