A VISIT TO LA VERNIA 
mens of this pottery may still be seen at the Museum, 
and since the bronzes discovered here have been moved 
to Florence, these, with a few ancient inscriptions, are 
the only traces left of Etruscan and Roman remains. 
But in treasures of thirteenth and fourteenth century 
art Arezzo is rich. It has a noble Duomo, one of the 
earliest and most interesting examples of Italian Gothic 
architecture, bearing a close resemblance to S. Maria 
Novella of Florence, and containing, among other 
choice sculpture, the famous tomb on which the 
battles and sieges of the warrior bishop Tarlati are 
represented. In another quarter of the town, on the 
picturesque old market-place, is the ancient shrine 
of S. Maria della Pieve, whose fantastic front of 
twisted columns and arcaded apse have won a new 
claim on the interest of this generation as the “ pillared 
church,” of Pompilia’s soldier-saint, Giuseppe Capon- 
sacchi, Canon of the Pieve. Lastly, we have in S. 
Francesco a storehouse of the noblest medieval art 
from the chapel where Spinello’s archangel flashes 
down upon us with his drawn sword, to the choir 
where we find the wonderful series of frescoes by the 
hand of a painter who amazes us by his mastery of 
form and effect, while he fascinates us by the deep 
poetry and spiritual force of his conceptions. If 
Arezzo contained nothing but these scenes from the 
legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca, 
it would be well worthy of a visit. When we have 
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