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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n the site of thehouse where St. Francis was born, the Cathedral ofSan Rufino and Santa Chiara, the mother house of thePoor Clares; while some way down the hillside is theunassuming Convent of San Damiano, where St. Clarespent her life and where she died (Plates 67 and 68). One object of especial interest in the hamlet ofSanta Maria degli Angeli is the old posting-house ofthe place. It stands on a fragment of the ancienthighway, for at this point the road has been divertedfrom its original course. The post-house can havealtered little since the calesse, with the couple fromArezzo, halted there in the spring of 1697. It is avery old house, sadly decayed, possessed of an out-side stair and of two storeys besides the ground floor.Attached to it are the vast posting-stables. They aresolidly built, are vaulted like the crypt of a churchand are capable of standing a hundred horses. Sosubstantially fashioned is this part of the inn that itremained unmoved in the great earthquake of 1832, 202
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From Perugia to Foligno by Assisi and was the place where the people of the villagetook refuge at the time of that disaster. On one ofthe pillars of the stable is an ancient fresco said torepresent St. Anthony. In a walled garden, just out-side the building, stands a picturesque well of greatage with an arrangement for the supplying of waterto the stables within. This posting-house is as in-teresting as the one at Torricella, for, like that silentworld-forgotten hostelry, it presents an untouched pic-ture of the road and of the houses by the wayside atthe time of the story (Plate 69). From this post-inn to the next halting place atFoligno is a distance of 9f miles. The road continuesthe same. To the left are the everlasting hills and thewan olive trees; to the right are the never-ending vines,the young corn, the bean fields and the poppies.When Goethe made his journey to Rome somethingwent amiss with the carriage when he reached thispart of the way, so he started ahead on foot andwalk

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